Tag: Tips
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How Green is Your State? Find Out With This Interactive Map
There are many ways to assess the greenness of your home state. MPHOnline’s approach was to consider a state’s energy makeup, gasoline consumption per capita, greenhouse gas emissions, air and water quality, recycling efforts and availability of public transportation. Using this data from state energy, waste, transportation and environmental management agencies, MPHOnline created an interactive map to…
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Make Your Own Exfoliating Scrubs Instead of Using Products With Plastic Microbeads
If you like to have soft, glowing skin but don’t want to pollute our oceans and lakes with plastic microbeads, try these recipes and make your own exfoliating scrub with ingredients from your kitchen. Avocado Foot Softener from Healthy Child Healthy World 2 tablespoons cornmeal 2 tablespoons mashed avocado or avocado oil [caption id=”attachment_311398″ align=”alignnone”…
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3 Ways Improving Your Diet Can Protect the Planet
The food choices you make daily affect your health, but they also have a major impact on the planet. Increasing consumption of locally grown organic fruits and vegetables helps protect the environment from the damaging impacts of factory farms and industrial agriculture. Here are three ways improving diets helps safeguard the Earth, courtesy of Food…
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Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Your Home
Too many homes are full of icky products with toxic chemicals that can be hazardous to our health and the health of the planet. Maybe you’re constantly wondering what chemicals are in the products that you put on your body or use in your home. Or how to decode those long ingredient lists. Or, most…
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4 Universities Top the List for Going Green
The Earth Day Network highlighted some of the country’s greenest colleges and universities last week. Here are their picks: 1. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) for its commitment to water conservation. The school reduced water use by 20 percent, nine years before a target date of 2020 for all California public universities. UCSB plans to cut water use…