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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It's suspected that polyurethane foam found in some mattresses is a source of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. Made from ingredients derived from fossil fuels, polyurethane is highly combustible and therefore often treated with flame-retardants that have serious health and environmental impacts. I don’t know about you, but it’s deeply unsettling to think I might
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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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I came across a company called Tru Earth. They sell laundry detergent in form of strips named Tru Earth Eco-Strips. Each strip packs ultra-concentrated, hypoallergenic, eco-friendly cleaning power into a tiny, pre-measured strip of detergent that you just toss in the wash. Its low-sudsing formula works in all types of washing machines, including high-efficiency (HE).
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Welcome to the Ad Vitam weekly blog entry! Since our launch in mid-December 2019 we have been delighted how positively we have been received and are excited to build this platform in 2020.
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