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An easy green lifestyle change: Ditch single-use disposables

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7 High Impact Green Lifestyle Changes That Help You and the Environment

Which green lifestyle changes have the highest environmental impact? In my opinion, they’re the ones that help shift personal habits, but are easy to accomplish. Try one or more of…

Make old jeans part of your clothes recycling pile

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Clothes Recycling: The 5 Best Ways to Do It

Recycling – clothes recycling in particular – has been on my mind recently. We’re moving out of our house of 15 years and it’s shocking to visualize the accumulated mountain…

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5 Common Recycling Myths and the Solutions to Recycle Right

There’s so much confusion about recycling that I thought it would be helpful to write about recycling myths and the solutions to these common misconceptions. So let’s take a look…

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7 Ways to Make it a Plastic Free July 2019!

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…

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4 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint in Your Home

You’ve heard about the climate crisis and the bleak view for the future of our planet. If you really dive in to learn more, it’s terrifying… It’s tempting to shut…

There are so many great reusable alternatives to plastic straws!

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Ditch the (Single-Use) Plastic! 4 Reusable Alternatives to Plastic Straws

I know … you’re probably wondering, why all the fuss about straws? Why the need to find reusable alternatives to plastic straws? Unfortunately, the plastic straws pollution problem is much…

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Film Review: The Clean Bin Project

How do you solve an environmental crisis through individual actions? That’s the seemingly monumental task that Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustemeyer undertake in The Clean Bin Project. Their yearlong struggle…

Does recycling work? Where does it all end up?

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Does Recycling Work? How to Tell and What You Can Do About It

Does recycling work? It’s a complicated question … Let me back up before I tackle that question and ask you first whether you recycle. Do you have a bin of…

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Easy Earth Day Tips To Make it a Green Day

Happy Earth Day! Before I launch into my Earth Day Tips, many of you might be wondering what on earth (!) is Earth Day? Earth Day is held annually on…