The Trash Can IS The Environment

The Trash Can IS The Environment

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 […]

11 Eco Swaps to Make Your Kitchen ECO

11 Eco Swaps to Make Your Kitchen ECO

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 […]

The Carbon Footprint of a Strawberry

The Carbon Footprint of a Strawberry

Have you ever thought about what the carbon footprint of a strawberry is? Ever considered how much of an impact a strawberry has on climate change? Probably not. I certainly hadn’t. Let’s carbonalyze a strawberry. Okay, I made that word up. But it works. Carbon + analyze. I like it. I’m keeping it. Let’s say you live in New York. […]

The 6 Main Concepts of Zero-Waste Living

The 6 Main Concepts of Zero-Waste Living

Why do YOU want to be more eco? There are plenty of reasons to become more environmentally-friendly: to fight climate change, to save wildlife, to create a better future for our children, for our own health…Just to name a few! Luckily, there are so many ways we can improve our lives to do so. One of the major problems that […]

6 Easy Eco Swaps You Can Make RIGHT NOW

6 Easy Eco Swaps You Can Make RIGHT NOW

These days there are so many ways that you can make your life more environmentally friendly. Some of them require that you change your habits, like becoming vegetarian or vegan, only buying foods without packaging, or riding a bike to work, but here are 10 eco swaps you can make TODAY with minor or no changes at all to your […]

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