Reducing A Shampooing Addiction

There were many daunting preparations required for our recent trip to Kenya— a list of vaccines from Typhoid to Yellow Fever—we even had to drink a cup of Cholera.

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Laundry Upgrade

1 Billion. That’s how many loads of laundry Americans do every week according to government data. 250,000. That’s how many plastic micro-fibers are released every time a fleece jacket is…

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LED the way

Let’s shed a little light on electricity, and how to use less. When it comes to reducing (the first of those 3 R’s!) electricity use, and by extension, greenhouse…

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Sorting Made Easy

We have all done it – hovered over a waste bin at an airport or the park trying to determine where to responsibly deposit our trash. Should it go…

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Electricity = Water Use

It’s World Water Day: What can you do for water today? Would you be surprised if we said that you should turn off your lights, skip the blow dryer, and…

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A Tidy Wardrobe

Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is all the rage. People everywhere are trying to de-clutter and minimize their wardrobes and their lives. But there is…

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All Stitched Up

If the first three R’s are “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, then the fourth R is for “REPAIR”. One of the easiest ways to cut down on waste is to extend…

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The Inside Scoop

What is the yummiest way to cut back on single use plastic? Ice cream cones! Americans eat on average 29 lb.s of ice cream a year. That equals 160 scoops….

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Leftover Magic

This Dow-invented food wrap probably did seem magical when it was introduced in 1953, but today we know that there’s nothing magical about single-use plastics. We use them once,…

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Time to Bulk Up

It’s time to BULK up! Heading to the grocery often means coming home with lots of unneeded packaging. The average American produces 4.4lbs of household trash every day, most of…

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