It’s 6:13am. I’m in my living room laying flat on the floor on my stomach. Chest heaving up and down as I take quick, gasping breaths. My legs and arms feel like they’re burning. My forehead is slightly damp with sweat. I just finished my second set of burpees for the day, and as usual, they kick my butt. Like […]
Maddie Hamann is the Co-Founder and Director of Marketing at PACHA Bread, where she applies her extensive scientific background to drive the company’s mission of promoting regenerative agriculture and sustainability. Maddie holds a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, but she transitioned from the field of Earth Science to marketing in order to make a direct impact on climate change […]
UrbisEco Home was founded to address the surprising fact that indoor air is often 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air, even in cities. This realization drove the founder, L. Christina Cobb, a sustainable living expert with a background in furniture, to spend over 10,000 hours researching the health and environmental impacts of home furnishings and earning certifications from the […]
Teralyn Pilgrim had no idea the environmental and economic impact of food waste, or that she could save $100 a month by living waste-free. But when a story of hungry children filled her with unbearable guilt, she decided to change the way her family approached mealtime. In her new book, No Scrap Left Behind: My Life Without Food Waste, she […]
Throwing away trash…It’s so addictively easy. Can’t figure out what to do with all that plastic packaging? How about all these food scraps? Old ripped clothes or a broken TV? Just toss it all in the trash and you never have to worry about it again. Have you ever thought about what you would do if you DIDN’T have that […]
As far as sustainable drinks go, nothing beats water. It’s healthy, plentiful, doesn’t have to come packaged in plastic or even bottles. It just gets piped straight into our homes! But drinking nothing but water can get kind of dull, and trying to find other things to drink that don’t come in plastic can be tough. I drink soy milk […]
Looking to reduce waste in your kitchen? Here are some ideas for products that will help you cut waste in your kitchen! The key is in the reusables!
We’ve all heard the slogan “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” For many of us, we’ve heard it since we were born. It’s been around since the environmentally-friendly movement started in the 1970s. I always understood it to mean what I assume most people think it means: If you want to be environmentally-friendly, do one of these three things: reduce the amount you […]
Looking to make your bathroom more environmentally-friendly? If you didn’t have time to read my blog post on it, you can check it out in video form here!
There are many aspects to reducing your environmental impact on the world. Sometimes it takes changing habits, sometimes it takes replacing environmentally UNfriendly things with eco-friendly options, and sometimes it takes both. But one thing is certain: there are many ways to make your life more eco and if you try to tackle everything at once, it can easily become […]