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Hitting up the local farmers market should be a must for your memorial day grilling even if you aren’t interested in the environment just because the food is so much better. But remember that food isn’t the only way of going local. 

Washing your clothes in a good machine uses 15-25 gallons of water per wash, and older less efficient machines use up to 45 gallons per wash. If we’re just throwing clean clothes in there time after time, that is a massive waste of water.

"2019 is experiencing something people are calling the Attenborough Effect, where people are becoming much more conscious about their disposables use after watching Blue Planet II. So why not try it yourself?"

If you have a day where you’re going to break out the sewing needles and patch up everything you own, you’re going to keep pushing that day farther and farther back. But if it becomes your Sunday morning or Thursday night ritual to repair one piece, you’ll find you run out of close to repair rather quickly

When told by adults that she should be studying in school to learn about climate change and find solutions, she reminds them that we have all the solutions already and no one is listening to the science. When told by adults, even powerful politicians like British Prime Minister Theresa May, that student strikers are wasting valuable school time, Greta reminds them that they’ve wasted thirty years of valuable time ignoring climate change. 

Instead she writes about the effects each sustainable choice has, weighs the upsides and downsides, and gives the reader the space to determine what is right for them. One person being perfectly sustainable is not nearly as impactful as millions of people being imperfectly conscious

While some materials such as aluminum can be melted down and recycled near indefinitely, most materials lose quality when they are recycled. Plastic food containers cannot be remade into new food containers. That plastic has to become a cheaper product such as building insulation, while new virgin plastic has to be made to make more plastic food containers. This loss of value is why traditional recycling can be more accurately described as downcycling.

Happy New Years! We hope you’ve been enjoying your first few days of 2019. To help start of the new year on a positive note, here is a list of some of the coolest environmental news of 2018.

Scanning your body from the head to the feat, try and let go of any tension you feel. Imagine there’s a light or a liquid seeping down the body, and any part of the body it touches relaxes.

America is leading the world in food waste. According to the Guardian, Americans throw out half of all their produce, which amounts to about one third of all their total food. There are of course problems on the entire distribution chain and not just with the consumers, but consumer choices are definitely one aspect.

If you’re reading this you most likely are interested in zero waste movements, or at least are looking for ways to be less wasteful. With growing frustration and urgency around climate change, you're not alone. So let’s look at the biggest ways to reduce waste, based on what the biggest sources of household waste are.

Those with the biggest stages have a responsibility to use their influence for good, and no one has a larger stage than actors. Here is a list of seven actors that have decided to use their voice to be a voice for the planet.