Sustainability: What is it?: meeting our needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Since my divorce In 2018, I have been finding a more simple and sustainable lifestyle. Not only out of wanting to help the environment, but out of necessity as well. My divorce left me in several …
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Sustainability & Finances: Food Waste by Kealy Parrish
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Twelve Easy Ways to Begin an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle By Claire Taydus
The Beginning of an Environmentally-Sustainable Lifestyle One of the biggest challenges we each face for living more sustainably, in my opinion, is: where to begin. One day, you look around your house and realize all your common household items come in plastic; half of your grocery list is in plastic; everything is plastic on plastic. …
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Home Composting by Elisa Lewis
One of my favorite actions that my family does to be environmentally friendly is home composting. Seeing how much food waste was going into the trash just to sit for years in a landfill was painful. I know that food does not break down there and when samples are taken from landfills they can find …
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Simple Swaps for an Eco-friendly Home
April brought this decade’s first full month of spring and the 50th anniversary of Earth week. It is also a period in which many of us are thinking about what we want our lives to look like on the other side of this quarantine. The alignment of these unique moments is the perfect time to …
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A Wasteful Inception: Disposable Products in America
When we nostalgically think back to the late 1940s and 1950s, we might envision a world castunder a black and white hue reminiscent of early television. Leave it to Beaver-style families sataround the kitchen table at breakfast and happily greeted the milkman as he dropped off freshmilk in exchange for the empty, glass bottles from …
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