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Assya Barrette

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.

HAPPIER HOLIDAYS
An anti-consumerist gift guide for our incredibly consumerist holiday season
Quartz • December 17, 2015
TIME FOR A CHANGE
What if the only way to save the planet is to dramatically slow our economies
Quartz • December 4, 2015
NO POO FOR YOU
How Big Shampoo conditioned us to buy products our hair—and environment—don’t need
Quartz • September 22, 2015
SAY YES TO AN OLD DRESS
It’s time to say goodbye to the wedding industry’s most unnecessarily extravagant fantasy
Quartz • September 3, 2015
A NEW KIND OF NORMAL
I went 200 days without buying anything new and learned how toxic our need for possessions is
Quartz • August 21, 2015