Sustainability

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11 Ways to Improve Indoor Air Quality

Simple steps to clear the air inside your house.

By Kim Syrios

Allergies Home/Living

The Liberation of Less: Christine Platt

For the author, advocate, and Afrominimalist, there’s more than one way to live a simpler life.

By Courtney Helgoe

Decluttering Financial Health

7 Ways to Support the Great Lakes

Take these simple actions to help support the Great Lakes and waterways across the globe.

By Heidi Wachter

Sustainability

How Climate Change Is Affecting the Great Lakes — and What You Can Do About It

The Great Lakes are critical to our environment, cultures, and economy — and even our spiritual lives. But they are under threat on many fronts. Here's how you can help.

By Heidi Wachter

Sustainability

Decibel Levels for 20 Common Sounds

From quiet to deafening, here are average decibel levels for everyday sounds in the world around us.

By Karen Bannan

General Health Sustainability

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The Nature Cure

Discover nine ways that being in nature can help ease depression and hypertension and improve resiliency and immunity.

By Molly Tynjala

Fitness Tips Functional/Integrative Medicine

Plastics: The Beginning of the End

For the good of our planet and our health, it’s time to rethink our habits around single-use plastics.

By Bahram Akradi

Columns Sustainability

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How Noise Affects Your Health — and What to Do About It

Excess noise isn’t just irritating — it can undermine your health. Learn why it’s important to calm the clamor with these strategies.

By Karen Bannan

Stress Sustainability

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How to Can Fruits and Vegetables

Canning is making a comeback. Preserve your summer and fall produce like a pro with these beginner recipes.

By Robin Asbell

Cooking & Food Home/Living

Why Environmental Health Is Human Health

The health of the planet and of humans is one and the same.

By Courtney Helgoe

Gut Health Sustainability

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The COVID-19 Plastic Pandemic

There's been a steep increase in the use of single-use plastic since the pandemic hit — here's why.

By Michael Dregni

Covid-19 Sustainability

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5 Ways You Can Support Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture is critical to the future of food — and the planet. Here's how you can help.

By Elizabeth Millard

Sustainability

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7 Ways to Get Rid of Garbage

The future of trash . . . is no more trash. That’s the goal behind the latest ideas from forward-thinking waste researchers and engineers.

By Michael Dregni

Sustainability

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Can Regenerative Agriculture Save Us?

Why nourishing topsoil, raising healthier animals, and growing more nutrient-dense crops and produce is critical to the future of food — and the planet.

By Elizabeth Millard

Food Culture Nutrition Tips

Aligning for Change

Education’s role in shaping the future of the planet.

By Bahram Akradi

Columns Personal Development

5 Tips to Stop Light Pollution

Turning off lights and advocating for better streetlamps are just two ways to preserve the night.

By Michael Dregni

Sustainability

Be Well With Water

Researcher Wallace J. Nichols, PhD, on how he embraces the mind-cleansing power of water every day.

By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

Nature Sustainability

How to Reduce Light Pollution

Light pollution contributes to greenhouse-gas emissions, harms our health, and blocks our view of the heavens. Learn how you can help turn down the glare at night.

By Michael Dregni

Sustainability