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Assya Barrette

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Assya Barrette is an engineer and sustainability blogger at GreenHighFive.com who helps people learn how to live more environmentally sustainable lives. She also runs a free email course on how to do your own buy-nothing-new challenge.

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12/17/15

An anti-consumerist gift guide for our incredibly consumerist holiday season

Quartz •

PublishedDecember 17, 2015

12/4/15

What if the only way to save the planet is to dramatically slow our economies

Quartz •

PublishedDecember 4, 2015

9/22/15

How Big Shampoo conditioned us to buy products our hair—and environment—don’t need

Quartz •

PublishedSeptember 22, 2015

9/3/15

It’s time to say goodbye to the wedding industry’s most unnecessarily extravagant fantasy

Quartz •

PublishedSeptember 3, 2015

8/21/15

I went 200 days without buying anything new and learned how toxic our need for possessions is

Quartz •

PublishedAugust 21, 2015

Assya Barrette's posts

An anti-consumerist gift guide for our incredibly consumerist holiday season

What if the only way to save the planet is to dramatically slow our economies

How Big Shampoo conditioned us to buy products our hair—and environment—don’t need

It’s time to say goodbye to the wedding industry’s most unnecessarily extravagant fantasy

I went 200 days without buying anything new and learned how toxic our need for possessions is