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With Easter quickly approaching, holiday celebrations are probably on your mind. This is a great time to ask yourself how sustainable your celebrations really are! Holidays like Easter should be times to relax and enjoy yourself. Whether you’re planning an all-out celebration or just enjoying the time off, committing to making sustainable choices during Easter doesn’t have to add extra stress. Making small changes to how you celebrate can actually make the day less stressful, and better for the …

Essential oils have been used for centuries for a variety of purposes. Within the modern United States, use of essential oils for aromatherapy has been popular since the 1980s. It’s easy to see why – they can have a number of positive effects on your mood, and they typically smell great! While essential oils are often used for fragrance purposes, it’s important to note that they’re fundamentally different from fragrance oils. These key differences can matter when it comes to thoughtfully purchas …

Agriculture is a vital industry that is ingrained in both the economy and our daily lives. You may know that large farms produce much of the food we eat, but you may not realize that items like crayons, detergents, and X-ray film are also byproducts of the industry. Since these products are so prevalent in everyday life, it’s essential to ensure that the processes by which they are made don’t harm our environment.The sad reality is that, currently, many common agricultural practices are placing …

2023 was a shining spot of hope amid decades of bad climate-related news. From policy changes and legal rulings to individual success stories, last year saw a number of wins for the planet. We’ve rounded up the top 23 from across the world: Policy France banned single-use plastics at fast food restaurants. This is one step in a larger plan for the nation to stop use of all single-use plastic products by the year 2040.The United Nations adopted the High Seas Treaty, creating guidelines to e …

November is that special time of year when Thanksgiving is approaching and we all do our best to get together with our family, sadly often for the only time all year, and sometimes even with the people we wish we’d see even more infrequently. Yet jokes aside, it is a wonderful time when the holidays are creeping nearer, the weather is crisp, and if we are lucky, we get to spend some time appreciating our loved ones and feeling some of the love ourselves. Let us remember, however, that the planet …

As some of you may know, I frequent local Farmer’s Markets and hop around to some different fairs and events selling our products we’ve made and collected. One question I frequently get from men that stop and take a look at our wares is variations of “Nothing for men, huh?” or “So you don’t get a lot of guys buying this stuff then, do you?” already sure of the answer and turning to walk away.We do, of course, have many male customers and have a few products that are more popular among men, which …

Ways People Are Celebrating Earth Day 2023 Around The World The U.S. has the most officially planned Earth Day events, including many festivals & fairs, lectures, cleanups, plantings, and more!The U.K. will have various festivals & coastal cleanup eventsGirona, Spain is hosting their annual Earth day festival (previously in Barcelona)Many schools in China are participating in a theme week on "Climate Change Awareness for Harmonious Coexistence"Italy has planned a peaceful sit-inThe LE …

For those of us in the Northeast at least, the cold winter months have come to a close and it's once again time to bring out the rakes and start the gardens and compost heaps.Personally I had always grown up composting as a child, with a big ugly blue plastic tumbling bin in our backyard and a small slightly smelly pot on the kitchen counter. Though I lived in PA, me and my family and some family friends would go to two music festivals in upstate New York every year. At both of these, the same&n …

What do the numbers in the triangle mean & which are recyclable? 01 is PET or Polyethylene Terephthalate, mostly in single-use plastics like soda or water bottles. It is hard to clean properly and is not suggested to reuse often, but can be recycled!02 is HDPE or High-Density Polyethylene, used in things like milk bottles or detergent bottles, and generally is recyclable!03 is V/PVC or Vinyl/Polyvinyl Chloride and is used to make juice bottles, cling films, or piping, and does have som …

Halloween is right around the corner, and while it can be quite easy (and fun!) to sink into the decorating chaos, we should strive to keep in mind the environmental impact that even just one exciting day can have for our planet, and do our best to have fun in innovative ways that are cognizant of and try to limit any unnecessary waste. Here are some tips on how to limit waste this year while still staying true to the Halloween spirit (or spirits!) Reuse or revamp old decorations and give them …

One of the biggest misconceptions out there about climate change is that “it won’t hurt me, my friends, or my family,” at least not in this lifetime, so there is little reason to care, especially on top of all of the other problems you have to worry about in your life on a daily basis. The Yale Climate Opinion Maps of 2018 show that almost half of Americans believe that climate change is not harming anyone in the United Sates and that it will not harm them personally. 39% of citizens don't worry …

Every single product has a story, starting with an idea and going from the extraction of the materials to the production, distribution, consumption, and then finally disposal. Yet there are multiple problems with this system that intentionally prevents sustainability and ends up harming our planet and the people that inhabit it. Those in the United States or other developed countries are, generally speaking, using too many material goods too quickly, and we are running out of resources. The Unit …

We all know by now that money is really what makes the world spin, no matter how much we wish it could be otherwise. "All you need is love..." and food to eat, water to drink, a place to sleep, clothes to wear, or even just something to occupy your time so you don't go mad. We all need money, we all continuously spend money, and we can sometimes start to feel powerless beneath the monotony of it all; spending money just to survive or find fleeting joy in soon-to-be forgotten goods rather than tr …

Carbon offsets are a way that individuals can make up for the environmental harm and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that they create throughout their daily lives or to ease the guilt of living a little bit more luxuriously. But why is that necessary, when should I do it, and how does it really help anything? CO2 emissions can be offset in a number of ways, including through personal environmental volunteer work that goes towards general conservation and various forms of carbon sequestra …

Bamboo is a well-known sustainable material and has been taking over the eco-friendly product scene, especially in regards to sustainable fashion, but bamboo products that are entirely made in the U.S.A are still so hard to find. Why is that, and how does that impact the sustainability of bamboo? Bamboo is hailed for its ability to grow very quickly (up to 3 feet a day!) and the fact that it uses less than 30% of the water that some other plants such as cotton need to grow. It is actual …