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Recently, the fashion industry has taken an unfortunate and dramatic turn. With the emergence of fast fashion, clothes are designed to be sold and discarded on a seasonal basis. If we think about the resultant increase in carbon emissions even...

Walking through your local supermarket, scanning the aisles for items on your shopping list, a plethora of confusing buzzwords are thrown at you. Organic. Natural. Non-GMO. Gluten-free. Fair trade certified, and the list goes on. Grocery shopping clearly isn’t as...

Ahh, there’s nothing like some good old H2O—you know, that stuff that makes up around 75% of our bodies? Water is absolutely essential to our survival. It’s important for our cognition, our organ and cell health, and our physical...

Laundry day is dreaded by many of us, but our planet stands to lose the most from that dirty pile of clothes that’s been taking up space in your closet.  Every part of laundry has an impact on our environment—from...

While a donation to an environmental organization may be one of the best holiday gifts, supporting an environmental organization at any time of the year is one of the best things you can do for our planet.  To help you...

The smell, look, and feel of lush, freshly-cut bright green grass makes for an experience like no other. Unfortunately, having a grass lawn also makes for an environmental impact like no other. Because of this, and the fact that...

In the United States, our National Park System is made up of 63 sites that technically have ‘National Park’ as part of their name.  However, if we consider national park sites, the individual units of land managed by the National...

Some of us aren’t blessed with a local farmer’s market in our neighborhood, we don’t have the time to find and sign up for a local CSA, and/or perhaps we just lost the small organic food co-op down the...

Not that long ago, thrift shopping and buying secondhand was not always considered a cool thing to do or talk about. Perhaps unfairly, it was often thought of for people who couldn’t afford new clothes at retail stores. After fast...

As you may remember back in 2017, the United States announced that it will pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement and officially exited on November 4, 2020. After this, many US states became even more aware of the...