With the busy summer travel season starting, I'm checking my bag to make sure I have everything I need for an emergency on the go. Despite my best-laid plans, I never know when my little " ... read more

6 Reasons Why It Is As an outdoorsy girl from Colorado, I’m passionate about our environment and minimizing our impact to it. One issue that I’ve been tracking for quite som ... read more

Solving the Problem of Plastic: Getting Your Kids Involved If you’re like most people, you’re probably already aware some of the pitfalls of plastic in our society. ... read more

Do you ever touch something silky this time of year, only to have it snag on your dry skin? In winter our hands, heels, elbows (not to mention lips!) can all chap and appear rough and flaky. ... read more

From shoes to travel bags, skateboards to sunglasses, all kinds of useful things are now being created from recycled plastic. And that’s good, especially considering ... read more

It’s not a pleasant thought, but it turns out that common, everyday kitchen towels may be one of the most likely places in your home for enteric bacteria to hide out. ... read more

Hard Water Woes: Why Rinse Aids Are Worth a Second Look If you live in an area with hard water then you’ve probably experienced spotty, filmy dishes and glassware that your poor d ... read more

Tips for More Sustainable Holiday Gatherings In the hustle and bustle of the season, staying mindful of our environmental impact can sometimes take a back seat to more pressing m ... read more

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As the use of chemicals has risen in the U.S. and other industrialized countries, so have cancer rates. Today, it's estimated that a ... read more

15 Ways to Lower Your Body Burden It’s called Body Burden—the alphabet soup of pollutants that accumulate in and contaminate our bodies. And though we’ve touched on it ... read more

Bleach is a chemical we often use to sterilize and whiten everything from our clothing to our countertops, so we’re in contact with it quite a bit in our everyday lives. This chemic ... read more

12 Major Sources of Plastic Pollution “We throw things away when we don’t know where ‘away’ is.” Angela Pozzi, Founder, The Washed Ashore ... read more

With an increased desire for convenience and items that are easily disposed of, we may be doing more harm to the environment than we realize. This is especially true with one of the most commonly u ... read more