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What Is Water Cremation?
Learn more about this alternative to traditional flame or fire cremation.
Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Burial and Cremation Options
Discover greener burial and cremation options that honor your values — and your final environmental impact.
Fend Off Mosquitoes and Biting Bugs — Naturally
Easy tips to protect yourself from biting bugs — and also help save pollinators and other beneficial insects.
Planting 100,000-Plus Trees Together
How the Life Time Foundation is partnering with American Forests to support reforestation from devastating wildfires in California’s Sierra Nevada — and how you can get involved.
7 Ways to Reduce Exposure to PFAS
Here’s how to protect yourself from “forever chemicals” and mitigate their effects on your health.
How Asthma Inhalers Are Going Green
Traditional inhalers can contribute to climate change — one reason why greener dry-powder inhalers are becoming more popular in Europe.
13 Tips to Make the Holidays More Eco-Friendly
Choosing energy-efficient holiday lights, avoiding gag gifts, and using real plates and flatware are just some of the ways to make your holiday celebration more environmentally friendly.
How Many Microplastic and Nanoplastic Particles Are in a Bottle of Water?
Higher than previously estimated, according to a recent study. Here’s why that matters.
What Is Agrivoltaics?
A hybrid land-use model that pairs solar panels with productive farmland may help us reach our clean-energy goals.
Origin Stories
Experience Life‘s editor in chief reflects on her rural upbringing and how growing up on a family farm allows her to feel more connected to — and appreciative of — the food she eats.
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Releases 2024 “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” Lists
Here are the most contaminated — and cleanest — fruits and veggies.
Why Trees Matter So Much — for the Health of People and the Planet
From cooling and cleaning the air to improving our mental and physical well-being, the effects that trees have on our health are more powerful and wide-reaching than many of us may realize — or give them credit for.
How Conventional Farming Practices Harm the Soil
Widespread farming practices like monoculture planting and the use of chemical fertilizers have a detrimental effect on soil health.
7 Ways to Find Food From Good Soil
Some food and farm activists want to see an official “soil health” label — much like the federally regulated organic label — but for now, nothing like this exists to guide consumers. Finding food grown in good soil requires some detective work. Experts offer these clues.
Toward a World With Less Plastic
Read a short overview of the UN Environment Programme’s ambitious plan to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by 2040.
6 Single-Use Products to Replace
It’s time to start replacing those single-use products. Here are some sustainable swaps.
6 Tips for Creating a Sustainable Yard
Keystone plants, vermicomposting, and no-till gardening are just some of the ways you can create a sustainable outdoor space.
9 Tips to Use Less Water in the Kitchen
Try these simple tips to reduce water usage in your kitchen.
How Soil Health Is Connected to Human Health — and So Much More
You may not be able to see them, but the microorganisms in the soil have a major impact on human nutrition and health.
Look to the Trees
Life Time CEO and founder Bahram Akradi reflects on the immediate impact planting a tree can have in the fight against climate change — and how to inspire collective action for a sustainable future.