Fossil Fuels in Your Beauty Products?
How to Avoid Petrochemicals in your Beauty Products Petroleum-based ingredients, also known as petrochemicals, are ubiquitous in American beauty products, appearing in about one in 14 …
What Is Carbon Offsetting and Does It Really Work?
What Is Carbon Offsetting and does it really work? Offsetting is one way to counterbalance the carbon you can’t avoid emitting, be it through travel, diet, …
What Is Carbon Offsetting and Does It Really Work?
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How to Shop Sustainable Fashion
What You Should Know About Fashion and Sustainability With the fashion industry currently responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions and 92 million metric tons of …
Make Your Laundry Routine Eco-Friendly With These 7 Tips
What You Should Know About Laundry and Its Environmental Impact A quarter of each garment’s carbon footprint comes from the way it’s washed and cared for. …
Make Your Laundry Routine Eco-Friendly With These 7 Tips
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What Are Sustainable Fabrics?
What You Should Know About Fabrics and the Environment Fashion is widely considered to be the second most polluting industry in the world, behind oil. Whereas …
What is an Eco Friendly Candle?
What You Should Know About Candles Candles make up a thriving and continuously growing industry now valued at $7 billion globally. Most mass-produced candles are made …
Shuki’s Sustainable Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
How can Valentines be more sustainable? Americans spend almost $22 billion annually on Valentine’s Day gifts and celebrations. Items that are commonly given as Valentine’s Day …
The True Cost of Gold
What You Should Know About Gold Mining in the Amazon Rainforest Illegal gold mining is one of the fastest drivers of deforestation and habitat loss in …
What Is Hygge, and How to Embrace the Danish Philosophy?
What You Should Know About Hygge Many credit the Danish concept of hygge for Denmark’s consistent high ranking in the United Nations’ annual World Happiness Report. …
What Is Hygge, and How to Embrace the Danish Philosophy?
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5 Ways to Have a Greener New Year’s Eve
Key Takeaways Major New Year’s Eve block parties like the one held in Times Square annually attract upwards of a million people and can generate 50 …