We all need to cut back on the wasteful and environment-harming single-use plastic we buy but making products from scratch can take time and resources. In recent months, I have been using Amend Market, a new Upstate service that parks up outside my house and refills hand soap, multipurpose cleaner, and laundry powder in the […]
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8 Easy Eco Ideas for Parents this Earth Day
Find the fun in natureAs we entertain and teach our children at home there are many fun, nature activities and experiments we can do. Encourage your kids to plant something or race around the garden looking for items for a nature scavenger hunt. Check out this cool transpiration experiment and a second one that involves […]
33 easy ways to go green in Greenville
As 2020 begins it’s impossible to ignore the impact our lifestyles and consumption as humans are having on the planet we call home. We are on track to have more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050 and global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels were on course to hit a record high […]
A bad bag habit
The average American home takes home 1,500 plastic bags a year, of which only about 1% are recycled. All too often, these single-use bags end up polluting the environment and being eaten by birds, sea turtles, and fish. It harms us too when the toxins from plastic make it into the food chain. By committing to […]
Why plastic straws suck
These days I like to be the weirdo who takes her own paper straws to bars and restaurants. Plastic straws are a menace. We don’t use them at home so why do we need them when we go places? Yet 500 million straws are used and discarded every day in the US with too many […]