While we’ve previously given you advice to green your valentine’s day, here’s another tradition to consider: flowers. Our advice? Ditch the roses.
Valentine’s Day roses are not only pricey, but often come with hefty carbon footprints after being flown from far distances, having been plucked from pesticide-filled fields. There’s nothing that says “I love you” more than chemicals filling one’s nostrils on a romantic holiday, right?
Instead, (find out more, after the jump!)
Happy Tu B’Shevat to our Jewish friends, friends who believe in the Jewish son of god (Jesus) or any religion!
Luckily my good friend Steph enlightened me: Tu B’Shevat is the New Year for Trees to the Jewish faith, or the cut-off date to calculate the tree’s bday. (Find out more and how you can celebrate, after the jump!)
I try to choose cosmetic products that are made from natural, chemical free ingredients and recycled goods.
It can be difficult to make the ‘green choice’ when staring down a drugstore aisle with seemingly endless options of shampoo and face wash. But if you familiarize yourself with some of the greener cosmetic companies, you’ll find there’s a good array of affordable, environmentally conscious selections out there.
Read on for the rundown on a few of my favorite eco-friendly cosmetic lines:
This year many readers have resolved to maintain or rev up their green lifestyle. We’re here to help!
Winter chill has definitely been felt in the tri-state area recently. Frigid temps often have us thinking about the cozy and warm and admittedly sometimes doing what ever is most convenient and easy. But, keeping your home eco-friendly during winter doesn’t have to be hard or time consuming.
Read on for some tips for the winter season:
One of our readers asked: “I’m trying to eat less meat in the New Year and want to go vegetarian. Do you have advice?”
Yes, I do. I will say first-hand that it’s not easy transitioning from carnivore to a plant-based diet. After reading many books like Skinny Bitch and discovering how animals were treated abused in Factory Farms, my appetite for meat shrunk. Discovering how many GHGs/pollution I’d save, I was sold on the diet. But after eating meat for 25(ish) years, it didn’t happen overnight…
Here are 6 lessons I learned along the meat-free way:
Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, local consumers swarm businesses looking for the best deals.
This holiday season, take a step back from the masses and try putting money back in
Are you still stuffed from those Thankgiving leftovers? (Considering my family decided to host Thanksgiving fashionably late, I’m still in a food-coma.)
“Tis the season for parties and mountains of food… which equals lots of excess waste. Between Thanksgiving and New Years Day, our food waste TRIPLES in the United States. What can you do to cut back this statistic for the holiday season?
Holidays always seem to test our good green intentions. The travel, the FOOD, and the excess waste can leave a big footprint.
T-day eve and Thanksgiving day mark the biggest travel days of the year. And, according to Recycleworks household waste in the US increases 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Years. Yikes.
How can you put your eco-conscious at ease? Here are some tips to enjoy a greener Thanksgiving. Click through to read on!
Whether you’re hosting a barbecue, enjoying a picnic in the park, or hitting up the beach one last time during this Labor Day weekend keep in mind these simple tips :
- Reduce your carbon footprint and use public transportation or carpool with friends and family to your destination.
- Use the final celebration weekend of summer to enjoy locally grown produce like (get more info, after the jump!)
