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5 easy ways to reduce the carbon footprint of your fashion choices
Yes, our fashion choices impact the world: the fashion industry is a top global polluter. So, yes, your choices towards each brand you direct your money to, matter. Fast fashion is not sustainable, and fast fashion brands will definitely not become sustainable any time soon. Your choices have an impact. It's up to you whether that impact is positive or negative. Climate change was described by naturalist David Attenborough as the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced. Intense drought, storms, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, heat waves, and warming oceans… These are all challenges we are...
5 easy ways to reduce the carbon footprint of your beauty habits
Beauty products can have such a negative impact on the environment, choking landfills with trash and polluting our waterways. But, did you know that your carbon footprint can be reduced by just making a few tiny changes in your beauty habits? We’ll get there in a second, after shedding some light on the problem as a whole. When it comes to eco-friendly beauty, there are now a lot of impressive-sounding terms making waves. From “plastic-free”, to “green”, to “clean”, to “sustainable beauty”, to the latest “carbon-neutral beauty” - these eco buzzwords have all grown in popularity, yet … Do we...
5 easy ways to reduce the carbon footprint of your workday routine
It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed by conflicting statistics and information about climate change, carbon footprint, sustainability, and more… We want to make a difference in the world but don’t know where to start. With that in mind and in order to help minimize the information overload, we’ve put together 5 easy ways to reduce the carbon footprint of your workday routine. First things first, let’s start by introducing some important concepts. What is a carbon footprint? Whether we realize it or not, from the moment we wake up to the moment we rest our heads at night, we’re contributing...
20 mind-blowing reasons why we should be planting trees
Think about this: if a simple tree image (yes, just an image) can make us happier, imagine what a real forest can do. There is little else on Earth that holds as much power as trees. From maple trees to antarctic beech trees - they are all majestic and able to amplify any environment they are in. Many mystical trees stand like sentinels, spreading beauty for decades, or even centuries. These gentle giants have been our neighbors for as long as we can remember, but… How much do we really know about them? Trees provide so much more than a...