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How to Detox Your Life, Save Money, and Change the World
What’s best for our health and the planet can also be great for our bank accounts. All it takes is shifting how we spend our money and our time.
How to Avoid Harmful Chemicals in Clothing
As many as 2,000 chemicals may be involved in making the clothes in your closet. They include pesticides, toxic dyes, and formaldehyde — a known carcinogen used as a mildew preventive in the fashion world (and as an embalming agent in the funeral industry).
The Power of a Pushup: Tyson Mayr
World traveler Tyson Mayr crusades for clean water in the Third World — and proves that simple acts can make a big difference.
Angela Sun: Explorer
The journalist, documentary filmmaker, and surfer talks about her passions for storytelling and protecting the environment.
Behind the Scenes With Angela Sun (Video)
Eco-adventurer and journalist Angela Sun shares her passion for getting plastic out of oceans.
Choose Safer Bedding and Avoid Harmful Chemicals For Healthier Sleep
Mattresses, pillows, and other bedding can contain chemicals that, while intended to make sleep safer, actually have the opposite effect.
Arbor Day: Stand Up for Trees — and the Environment
A modern anecdote to encourage you to be aware of what’s happening in your environment — and take action when needed.
Beyond the Harvest: 5 Ways Gardens Support Your Health
Garden produce provides nutritional benefits, but the very act of digging in the dirt nurtures mind, body, and soul.
The Patio-Pot Solution
Want to help save the butterflies? Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on how something as simple as planting a patch of herbs can support these pollinators.
Read, Plant, Grow
Create your own victory garden with this handful of informative books.
Giving Gardens
Giving gardens, a growing phenomenon, provide wellness for corporate employees, food for those in need — with far-reaching ripple effects.
Heal the Soil, Reverse Global Warming: An Interview with Kristin Ohlson
The New York Times bestselling author talks to us about her new book and why the health of our soil determines the health of our planet.
The Critical Role Pollinators Play and What You Can Do to Help
Bees are under attack. Here are some ideas on what you can do to save them.
4 Ways to Keep Toxins From Entering Your Home
We enjoy connecting with the earth through a landscaped yard or natural park. Once we track that earth inside, though, it’s a different story. Dirt, in this chemical age, is dirtier than many of us might want to know.
Fish for Change
Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on how to enjoy your seafood and help save our oceans.
5 Ways to Protect Yourself Against Superbugs
Bacteria are waging a battle against antibiotics, which are overused and too often ineffective. But we can still win the war.
Label Conscious
A new constellation of “conscious clothing” tags — insignia identifying clothes that are organic, processed without toxic chemicals or produced in accordance with fair-trade practices — deserve our attention.
The Frack Effect
As demand for natural gas in the United States increases, so does the incidence of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” But is it safe?
Horseback Humanitarians
Saddle up with Relief Riders International for a do-good adventure in one of India’s most dramatic desert landscapes — and find out if “voluntourism” is right for you.
Frankenfood: The Health Concerns and Risks of Genetically Modified Foods
Genetically modified food is everywhere in America’s supermarkets and restaurants. And since it’s not labeled, most of us have no idea how much of it we’re eating — or how much it’s affecting our health.