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Sara Goddard

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Green That Life is your guide for sustainable living. Its purpose is to provide practical tools, tips, and resources related to a variety of sustainability topics, including waste reduction, pollution prevention, food waste, environmental activism, and more. Green That Life founder, Sara Goddard, is an environmental activist, sustainability adviser, and elected official. Sara’s mission through GTL is to provide original content that helps inform and inspire.

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Vote for the Planet! Your Complete Voter’s Guide

Calling all environmentalists, climate activists, tree huggers, and greenies: Vote for the Planet! Yes, I’m talking to you — that person who’s a committed and caring protector of the environment;…

Yes! You can have a fun AND green Halloween!

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Your Ultimate Guide for a Green Halloween

Ugh. When I think about how much I wasted over countless Halloweens … It’s scary! Yes, it’s entirely possible to have a fun and frightening Green Halloween. It just needs…

An eco friendly school lunch is good for you and the planet!

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Everything You Need to Know to Pack an Eco Friendly School Lunch

This school year comes with a variety of extra considerations and concerns. Whether your kids are attending school full-time, taking some classes online, or spending the entire school year at…

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7 Green Back to School Tips to Keep You Sustainable and Safe

The first day of school is just around the corner! As you and your child prepare for that exciting day, take stock of these green back to school tips that…

Eco-friendly school clothes ideas that are good for you and the planet!

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7 Eco-Friendly Back to School Clothes Ideas To Green the Planet and Your Wallet

A new school year is about to begin and that typically means a mad dash to the store for new school clothes and supplies. This year, why not save yourself…

Climate leadership is needed from our elected representatives.

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Where is The Climate Leadership in Our Government?

The unbridled impunity with which fossil fuel companies and plastics producers greenwash their activities is deeply entrenched. It’s accepted with ignorance or cynical resignation by a nation that lacks robust,…

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7 Ways to Make it a Plastic Free July 2022!

What is Plastic Free July? Plastic Free July is a global movement that empowers people to be part of the solution to plastic pollution. The concept is simple: Participants are…

15 Smart Ways to Reduce Energy Use and Take Control of Your Soaring Gas Bills

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15 Smart Ways to Reduce Energy Use and Take Control of Your Soaring Gas Bills

The devastating war in Ukraine has roiled energy markets, causing steep prices at the pump and shockingly high utility bills. While the European Union has encouraged citizens to conserve and…

Big Meat and Dairy exert an extraordinary level of influence.

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Big Meat and Dairy’s Unsavory Pushback on Climate Action

The Big Meat and Dairy industries are copycats — copycats of Big Oil, that is. (Big Oil, for their part, copied from Big Tobacco.) Fueled by extraordinary wealth, these industries…

Even if you can't get outside, you can celebrate Earth Day with a Virtual Earth Day!

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Happy Virtual Earth Day 2022! 9 Ways to Celebrate From Home

It’s been two years since the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day and over two years since the start of this devastating global pandemic. Although it has kept us…