What is Fair Trade, and Does it Matter in Body Care?
The Fair Trade designation can help support sustainability goals, but it relies on consumer demand.
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How Dead Plants Provide Life for Birds, Pollinators and People!
How you can help pollinators and birds by leaving dead plants for seed and shelter!
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Castor Oil in Soap and Shampoo Bars
Why do we use tropical castor oil in our shampoo bars? The magic is in the ricinoleic acid!
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Milkweed Species For Your Garden!
How to plant milkweeds for monarchs and beauty! Monarch caterpillars eat only milkweed, which has declined due to suburbia, farming and pesticides.
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The Magnificent Monarch Migration!
Through wind and rain, around predators and human obstacles, monarch butterflies fly up to 3000 miles in late summer to overwinter. And they need our help!
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Seven Ways to Stop Junk Mail!
Junk mail results in senseless cutting down of huge areas of forest. Here are 7 simple, practical ways to stop junk mail and save trees!
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The Not So Innocent Plastic Straw!
The environmental impacts of plastic straws are huge. We can all be part of the solution!
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How to Protect Birds from Window Collisions
Millions of birds die each year from hitting windows. Here’s what you can do to help!
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Sustainability Certification for Wood: FSC vs SFI
Wood and paper products can be certified as sustainable if they meet certain criteria. What do these certifications mean, and how do they differ?
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Not into Flushing Trees? Choose Recycled TP!
Thousands of trees are flushed or landfilled every day from the use of non-recycled toilet paper. We can help stop this with a simple choice!
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Is 100% Recycled as good as it sounds?
The label “100% Recycled” must mean a product is pretty green, right? Not necessarily. It’s all about the post-consumer content…
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Make your own reusable tissues
Here’s a simple and fast way to save trees and money!
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