jnazak at yahoo dot com
(512) 619-5363 (I am based in Daytona Beach, Florida; just have not chosen to change my Austin number)
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(The above photos were taken at F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival 2022 in Daytona Beach, Florida. www.freshbookfestivals.net )
Speaking during Citizens’ Comment time at a Daytona Beach City Commission meeting.
Short bio:
1 – jenny nazak is a freelance sustainability educator based in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. She has a blog dedicated to low-footprint living, and is the author of the “small-footprint living large” guidebook, DEEP GREEN.
Organizational affiliations: jenny is a life member of the following organizations. NAACP; Sierra Club; Tri Delta; Veterans for Peace.
More:
She believes that everyday people, through their daily choices, have the power to create a just and sustainable civilization. She is setting out to spark a “Grassroots Green Mobilization.”
She has turned her urban house and yard into a low-footprint living laboratory, and often posts on social media about her “Doomer Home Ec” experiments with solar cooking and other low-tech sustainable practices.
Some years back, she noticed that her ultra-low-footprint lifestyle, undertaken for the collective good, was also bringing her great personal benefit in terms of financial resilience, occupational freedom, and happiness.
jenny will try almost anything to get people motivated to take care of the planet that is our only home. To raise concern about the consequences of extreme heat, she once stood up at City Commission with slices of burnt toast clipped to her person and waved a large cardboard cutout of a flaming thermometer. And she has been known to do standup comedy about biospheric collapse. She’s working on a humorous existential novel in which the main character is a failed environmentalist.
***(An important part of my message that often gets missed is that I’m not so rare! There are many others like me; many others voluntarily doing this.)
Transporting a compost box I built from discarded scrap wood using hand tools. At a Natural Building Colloquium at the Quiet Valley Ranch, Kerrville TX, 2007.
During citizens’ comment time at Daytona Beach City Commission, talking about the dangers of extreme heat.