Sustainable Fashion has a ton of cool and inspiring aspects like fair trade, buying local, choosing natural fibers, buying second-hand, selling second hand, up-cycling and recycling. One pretty basic component in sustainable fashion which hasn’t gotten the hype it deserves, at least until now in France, is the art and joy of maintaining.
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What is the Plastic Free July Challenge? The challenge is to give up at least one single-use plastic item during the month of July. Some participants focus on trading out plastic in their home, school or workplace and others sign up to live completely plastic-free during July. By joining the challenge you’ll receive emails for
Learn about the businesses that prioritize fair wages, environmental protections and healthy communities as central to their missions.
What is a B Corp? Ten Companies that are Saving Our World, and They Still make Money! Read More »
51 Years of Raising Awareness The First Earth Day was celebrated on April 22 1970 when Gaylord Nelson, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, founded Earth Day for Americans to speak out about the environmental crises we face, and a grassroots movement was born. Earth Day became recognized as an international event in 1990 and more
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It’s That Time Again, It’s that moment of year when we think about what we can improve on, what we want to change – when we look ahead and earnestly make a list of resolutions for the coming year. If there is a silver lining to tumultuous 2020, I think it’s that this year has
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Do-Good Consumerism is Here to Stay The sustainable shopping concept recognizes that everything we buy has health, environmental and social impact, either negative or positive. If we remember to think about it, our shopping habits are an opportunity to support what is important to us and avoid products and services that do not align with
When Ethics is the Brand: Save the World in a Variety of Ways with a Single Purchase. Read More »
Eco-Plastic Products Turns Plastic Waste into Furniture. Today’s Podcast features Eco-Plastic Products of Delaware, a non-profit project that is literally cleaning up our planet one ( or 30,000) plastic bag at a time. This small group of dedicated ‘recyclers’ collects discarded plastic and transforms it into outdoor benches, tables, garden boxes and more. The nonprofit
Try this Eco-friendly DYI Substitute from those disinfectant wipes that you haven’t been able to find for weeks!
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There are so many everyday items in our homes that are single-use plastic I wanted to dedicate a post to sustainable replacements in the Saying No to Plastic series. It feels we’re finally at a turning-point moment against the plastic lifestyle and there are new options popping up everywhere for Saying No to Plastic! What’s
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I’ve been on a mission to ditch plastic for a while. Once you start looking, it’s hard not to notice just how much plastic surrounds us and how much it’s part of our lives. At the same time, we read and hear more and more how plastic is suffocating our planet – our recycling centers
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