Sustainability

A daily dose of nature can improve your health and well-being. Here are ways Experience Life readers and staff get more green time in their day.

Robin Emmons is creating gardens from food deserts and empowering Charlotte’s impoverished communities to feed themselves.

Roll up your sleeves and make a difference with voluntourism.

Why you may want to avoid anti-odor clothes, and alternatives for lessening the stink.

Mercury in fish and dental fillings. Lead in old paint. Cadmium and arsenic in industrial wastes. There’s a lot of talk about heavy-metal toxins these days. But how worried should you be, really? And what can you do to protect yourself?

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.

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).

World traveler Tyson Mayr crusades for clean water in the Third World — and proves that simple acts can make a big difference.

The journalist, documentary filmmaker, and surfer talks about her passions for storytelling and protecting the environment.

Mattresses, pillows, and other bedding can contain chemicals that, while intended to make sleep safer, actually have the opposite effect.

A modern anecdote to encourage you to be aware of what’s happening in your environment — and take action when needed.

Garden produce provides nutritional benefits, but the very act of digging in the dirt nurtures mind, body, and soul.

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.

Create your own victory garden with this handful of informative books.

Bees are under attack. Here are some ideas on what you can do to save them.