This week, I'm responding to my friend Jason's question: Do you have any tips on going vegan while being cooped up at home because of the coronavirus? I share 8 tips from my 8 months as a vegan (funny how that works out). 

With corona getting me down, I scrap my original plan of talking about the post-corona degrowth utopia to talk about scaled back ambitions and life in the new corona reality. Inside of giving myself a new challenge, I'm opting for can-do invitations. Plus, a lottery for basic income during the coronavirus crisis (mein-grundeinkommen.de) and more on the DC Environmental Film Festival (dceff.org).

Hi everyone, just wanted to tell you that the DC Environmental Film Festival, the largest environmental film festival in the world, has put much of this year's program online for free through the end of March. Check out over 70 films, great for home-schooling or movie night, at dceff.org. Stay safe, and happy viewing! APRIL UPDATE: There are now MORE great environmental films available to stream (over 300), with selections from past years as well.

The news is saturated with coronavirus, so I wanted to put the global pandemic into a climate change context: what this outbreak means for global emissions and short- and long-term climate action. I set some new challenges for myself based on my new coronavirus reality here in Germany, and share some film and book tips for those of you shut up at home the next few weeks. And I invite you to be my book buddy in reading "Was würdest du tun?" For more information, go to: myclimatediet.org.

I've been on a climate diet for a year now, so I thought I'd take a step back and talk about the first steps you can take to reduce carbon emissions. Today I'm talking about electricity and how important it is to our carbon footprint. I also talk about sustainability at the Berlinale this year, and ask listeners to share this podcast with their friends in Saarland.

Today I introduce the concept of degrowth and start my celebration of Black Future Month by looking for black voices who have written about degrowth or related visions. I look at a 2013 article in "Sustainability" by Brian Gilmore on degrowth and racial inequality, talk about N. K. Jemisin's short story about anti-colonial technological innovation "The Effluent Engine," and read Ta-Nehisi Coates connecting climate change to a history of an American Dream that plunders black bodies and now nature itself in "Between the World and Me." And I admit a major fail that I have read nothing by the legendary Octavia Butler. To be fixed by next time, I promise! Finally, a shout-out to Speculative Futures Berlin and particularly Mathana Stender, Wenzel Mehnert, and Carmen Schmöl for urging me to read Ms. Butler's work.

This week, I talk about my plan with my husband to stop buying books and DVDs for six months, and what this means for the climate (hint: not much). I talk more generally about deprivation as a source of joy and look into the Unread Shelf Project (theunreadshelf.com), which also includes book-buying bans as a way to get reading. And there are shout-outs to BookMooch (bookmooch.com), Emily Atkin's HEATED newsletter, the podcast "Drilled: The Mad Men of Climate Change," and the German-language podcast "Sauercrowded," which features me as a guest in this month's episode.

It’s a new year and I’ve been on a climate diet for 10 months now. So today I step back on the scales and see how my carbon footprint has changed. I find I've lost nearly 2 tons from the challenges I've given myself since starting the podcast, and talk about the impact each thing has made as well as the savings from doing the podcast itself. I then discuss my plans for the year, including a ban on book-buying, and how the vegan bodybuilding documentary The Gamechangers is giving me hope.

This week, I have to change my plans for December to gripe about setbacks at the junk house. But I share a great idea for a DIY advent calendar that reduces food waste, cleans out your pantry, and uses stuff you've already got lying around the house. It just needs a better name.

Hey everyone, this Friday, November 29, is Buy Nothing Day and the Global Climate Strike! I talk about Buy Nothing Day, why it's important, and how to get involved. Learn more at adbusters.org and fridaysforfuture.org. Plus, two stories about divestment--at the European Investment Bank and the Yale-Harvard football game--are giving me hope this week. Happy Thanksgiving, and see you in a few weeks!