Many inexpensive beauty products created by big businesses are full of cancer-causing chemicals and hormone disruptors. Making your own beauty products is an all-natural process with almost no negative side effects. Making these products rather than buying them also allows customization of each recipe, reduction of our environmental impact. Also, buying fewer ingredients to make multiple things allows you to…
According to WHO, a carbon footprint is a measure of the impact your activities have on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced through the burning of fossil fuels and is expressed as a weight of CO2 emissions produced in tonnes. The carbon footprint is a very important means to understand the impact of a person’s behavior on global warming.…
While holidays and special days are a great excuse to break from diets, school, and work, they’re not an excuse to break from our sustainable efforts. Climate change doesn’t go on vacation. The biggest perpetrator during the holiday season surprisingly isn’t traveling emissions. It’s gift-giving and over-consumption. We end up accepting and giving gifts that we don’t even want (let…
Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives. There are many ways to embrace vegan living. Yet one thing all vegans have in common…