Eve Schaub

Eve Schaub

LOCATION: VERMONT

Eve O. Schaub is an author and humorist whose previous books, Year of No Sugar (2014) and Year of No Clutter (2017) were well received and warmly reviewed by Kirkus and other outlets. In her latest book, Year of No Garbage, Schaub tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Convincing her husband and two daughters to go along with her, Schaub attempts the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all. For an entire year. And- as it turns out- during a pandemic.

In the process, Eve learns some startling things, many of which she picked up through Judith Enck’s master class on the plastic crisis: that modern recycling is broken, and single stream recycling is a lie. That flushable wipes aren’t flushable and compostables aren’t compostable. That plastic drives climate change, fosters racism, and is poisoning the environment and our bodies at alarming rates, as microplastics are being found everywhere, from the top of Mount Everest to the placenta of unborn babies. 

Eve’s presentation is a tour of her book, with funny and poignant discussion of the plastics crisis, how to tackle it, and how to join her in becoming involved in the work of Beyond Plastics.

Eve Schaub has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show, Fox & Friends, USA Today, and The Huffington Post among others. Her essay “Our Year of No Sugar: One Family’s Grand Adventure” for Everyday Health has been viewed over a million times. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew and Spanish, and her writing has additionally appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Vermont Magazine and Vermont Life. She holds a BA and BFA from Cornell University, and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.