Microplastic is everywhere and it’s one of the biggest environmental problems that most people haven’t even heard of. The tiny plastic pieces are found in the arctic ice and the remotest parts of the deep sea. They are in our everyday foods and in our bodies. The harm microplastics are doing to our health are not
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According to The PEW Charitable Trusts and SystemiQ the plastic wave is expected to DOUBLE in the next 20 years. In the same time plastic pollution is to TRIPLE in terrestrial ecosystems and QUADRUPLE in the ocean.
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Being energy efficient is a lot easier than you think. There are two main reasons for energy conservation, to save money on your utility bill and to protect the environment. Most people don’t actually know how our every day electricity use contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is in fact quite significant.
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For the month of July, millions of people across 177 countries have pledged to cut down on the amount of plastic they use. That can be going without single-use plastic for one day, one week or the entire month. The Plastic Free July movement started in Australia in 2011 and has been growing steadily ever
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The world we live in is overwhelming. The pace of events is staggering. It’s one thing right after the other. If we look at this year of 2020 in America alone, we have the coronavirus pandemic, extreme and raising division, the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and the list goes on. It
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If you google 'how to recycle' you want to pull your hair out because it’s made so complicated and confusing. For example, in Los Angeles alone, it changes from city to city what goes into the recycling bin. The City of Santa Monica varies slightly from West Hollywood as well as Los Angeles. I mean
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Plastic pollution and the degradation of natural ecosystems are among the greatest environmental challenges we are facing today. Massively responsible for the depletion of our planet’s resources is our current “linear” economy, which extracts, turns resources into products and then disposes of them. This cycle is also called “take-make-waste.” E.g. You buy a t-shirt, wear
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I was very excited to learn about a new clean beauty trend called Blue Beauty I read about in an Elle article. Compared to Green Beauty, Blue Beauty goes a step further. It revolves around the affect packaging has on our marine life, water wastage and minimizing the damage we inflict on our oceans.
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50 years ago the first Earth Day in 1970 marked the launching of the modern environmental movement. It was a collective response to environmental issues such as oil spills, air and water pollution. An estimated 20 million people in America alone took to the streets on behalf of the environment and demanded a new way
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Fossil Fuels are a hot topic these days. A lot of people link them to climate change, others argue that they have nothing to do with global warming, but wherever you stand on that subject, there is a darker, very invisible side to fossil fuels and chemical toxicity that sits right under your nose or
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