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Natalie Amezcua

Sustainability on the Ground; What do Nanjingers Think?

With every successful movement that has come to fruition to date; the Women’s Liberation Movement, voting rights, LGBTQ movement, Black Lives Matter movement, and the Me Too movement to name a select few; so public opinion on the matters...

Does “Zero Waste” in Reality Really Mean “Zero Waste”?

For this month’s Sense & Sustainability, The Nanjinger spoke with Nanjing-based, Rachel Niesen, advocate and long-time dedicator to the zero-waste movement who also runs the website, EcoLaowai, dedicated to conscious living in China. Top of the agenda; common misconceptions...

The Big “C” Welcomes the Big “P”


As most of the west continues to work on controlling The Bic C, China has moved past that turmoil and onto implementing local and national preventative measures to ensure that heathy living and normalcy continues for Chinese residents. One...

Brunching with Sense and Ditching All that’s Single Use

Sustainability awareness is on the rise all over the world and China is not staying behind. Being the largest producer of single-use plastic and with its largest landfill full, 25 years ahead of time, China is beginning to take...

People Make Waste & China has 
a Lot of People

Last November, on Singles Day, China’s State Post Bureau expected to handle a reported 2.8 billion packages, roughly two packages per person on the country’s largest shopping holiday of the year.  Olivia O’Connor, an English teacher living in Nanjing, identified...

About Me

Animal lover, humane educator and travel blogger, Natalie Amezcua, born in Los Angeles, moved to South Korea in 2016 with all her home spices and hasn't lived home since. Now learning all she can about zero waste living in this fast paced nation, she is combining two things she enjoys, writing and sustainability, while studying to earn her Masters degree in Humane Education. When not on her laptop, she's either sitting at a café, socialising with friends or curled up on her couch watching Netflix with a face mask on.
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