3 Best Articles I’ve read on Medium in February

And you can still read them too

Zuzanna Żak
2 min readMar 1, 2023

There are apparently over 20,000 new stories published on Medium published every day. But in February, the amount of non-bird-related work didn’t permit me to dive into some of it as much as usual. Or maybe the feed algorithms are playing tricks on me.

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

So here are the 3 articles, not the usual 5, that I would like to share with you that were written in the month of February.

Treeplanting: As Unsustainable As Sustainability by B. Lorraine Smith

The products packaging of many plastic bottles in my country is filled with statements claiming that they replant a tree for every sold bottle. B. Lorraine Smith tells her story from both the side of someone that planted those trees in the past and after seeing all the shades of corporate green.

Viewing Egrets as Fine Art Subjects by Randy Runtsch

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Zuzanna Żak

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