Studio Schedule Week of 11/8/2026 | One Drop at a Time

I’ve been chatting with Hilary Karls, a member of our studio community, about the project she began building this summer, during our weekly GYROTONIC® appointment. It’s not an area I felt confident explaining to others, so I asked her for an interview to get a fuller picture of her Climatebase fellowship capstone project, now that it’s live and operational. It started when she became a fan of BTS and and has since travelled globally to see them perform live sixteen times.

Hilary spent more than twenty years in tech, including Uber Eats, Cash App, and TaskRabbit, and she gathers joy wherever she can find it: ballet, theater, Burning Man, and, since 2024, the Korean band BTS. At a show in London, one of the members asked the crowd whether they’d keep showing up for another thirty-two years. The entire stadium screamed “Yeeeeessss! Woohoo!” Of course, Hilary screamed yes at the top of her lungs too.

“[G]etting home from that trip a week or so later, I [asked myself], ‘What does 32 more years of this much travel really mean for the world, and can we actually viably do that?’ In 32 years, if we continue what we’re doing without being smarter about what we’re doing, will we still be able to gather in large numbers and dance together and have fun? And I still want room [for] that joy to happen. I still want room for all [of] us to get together, and for me at least, that means doing my part to take responsibility for the carbon emissions that I am emitting while traveling. And so I built a platform in order to do that.”