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I'm leaving China... for SupChina!
I’m thrilled to announce that as of today, I’ve joined the amazing team at SupChina as their Chief Marketing Officer. And as part of that role, I’m moving back to the United States.
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i own this place!
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exploring: wuhan, china
In this video, I get into: Wuhan's history, what it's known for in the modern era& where you should go and some of the things you should eat should you ever get a chance to visit this awesome city.
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12.08 | travel vlogging again with this wuhan meet cute
As you might recall, I went to Wuhan recently for one of my last work trips. I liked the quick taste of it so much that I decided to get my friend/colleague Lu to talk to me more about it, and to go back and enjoy it again.
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11.24 | the holiday season is hella trashy
With Thanksgiving coming up, it seems as good a time as any to remind everybody that, as fun as it is to celebrate over and over again (one year, I think I went to four different Thanksgiving parties in the span of a week), to be mindful of the amount of waste you generate.
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11.17 | pr for plastic is fantastic (& that's horrifying)
Who’s going to remember that the Number 2 means “high density polyethylene,” which recycling centers accept, while the Number 6 means “polystyrene,” which is mostly a no go? Why put a recycle symbol when something’s basically unrecyclable?
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11.10 | take deep breaths while watching the climate conference
COP26 is probably the climate change conference of our time. And now I have my own little Elaine-branded primer on what's going on with this whole shindig. Read through to figure out what's going on, friends!
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Elaine's little primer to COP26
So, unless you're under a very specific climate change-denying rock, you probably knew that there was some major world leaders' meeting going on right now that had something to do with the environment. I try to break it down.
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11.03 | you know what's an actually dystopian disneyland?
So the big news piece coming out of Shanghai this week was that Shanghai Disneyland locked everyone in and gave them all covid tests as soon as it got word that a visitor from the previous day had tested positive for covid once she had returned home.
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10.28 | a dispatch from the ice rinks of wuhan
We're here in Wuhan filming a bunch of ice hockey enthusiasts who somehow managed to get set up here in the South, in a place where summertime temperatures can reach 40C.
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10.20 | diet culture is just late stage capitalism screwing with us.
Basically, after a year or so of vacation vlogs and musings about ethical existence, I got monetized on Youtube off of a video I did on going on a 14-day fast...
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The real reason everyone is dealing with an obesity epidemic
If you want to see this post in video form, you can check out the latest video I posted on my Youtube channel: So I got monetized on Youtube off of an experiment in fasting... now over half my followers are from a vlog I did about a 14-day fast.
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10.07 | a week of wine o'clock
I took a trip to China's wine country, Ningxia. Here's what I found out about this new wine region upstart.