simple changes

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…

Walk to school or work to reduce your carbon footprint.

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3 Essential Ways to Reduce Carbon Footprint Outside Your Home

I recently wrote an entire post on simple ways to reduce your carbon footprint in your home, so it seems only fitting now to provide some tips on how to…

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…

Enjoy the outdoors but use natural mosquito repellent to avoid bites!

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Natural Mosquito Repellent Tips to Keep You Itch-Free This Summer!

Having just finished writing about natural tick repellents, it occurred to me that mosquitoes deserve equal attention. Instead of reaching automatically for the heavy-duty chemical sprays, there are a whole…

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…

How to reduce waste while shopping? Go bag-less!

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How to Reduce Waste When You’re On the Go

I don’t know about you, but I find that it’s much easier to figure out how to reduce waste at home than when I’m out and about. The iced tea…

Food waste is a bigger problem than we think

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Food Waste is a Huge Waste. 7 Ways to Whittle The Waste.

It may sound odd, but food waste makes me uncomfortable. I grew up in a household where my mother shopped, cooked and served meals with a frugal eye. Her philosophy…