Fact: Making Your Body Healthier Will Make the Planet Healthier
Every Earth Day, we give you plenty of lists of things that you can do to help to save the planet or just increase your ecofriendly living quota. The irony of these, however, is that one of the most important changes you could make to your life that would ultimately help to drive environmental improvement is also one of the most intimate and personal changes that you can make. It’s not creating recycling [...]
Favorite Julia Butterfly Hill Quotes: We Are the Solutions
“We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.” Julia Butterfly Hill More Earth-Inspired Content from Postconsumers Favorite Earth Day Quotes Organic Food Articles Energy Conservation Articles Climate Change Articles Green Living Articles All Our Favorite Quotes Get More Inspiration on the Social Media Channels Below Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium
The Day Prince Died: Lessons in Why Experience Gifts, Not “Stuff,” Matter
I may get emotional writing this. I love Prince. Love in the present tense because we will always be lucky to have his music, which is a living part of him. I saw him live more times than I’d like to admit. His music is my go-to whenever I need to feel happy, or sad, or just connect with an emotion, or run further, or find a quiet space in my head. Was [...]
The Eco-Benefits of Vegetarianism: Saving the Planet with Healthy Eating
We would never tell you what to eat or how to eat! But it’s no secret that the Posconsumers team thinks that there’s value in going meat-free or in reducing meat in your diet. We’ve previously touched on the topic of the massive carbon footprint of meat in specific relationship to the fall and winter holidays. And there’s certainly no shortage of eco-friendly food tips on Postconsumers that are directly related to vegetarianism. [...]
Reconciling the Need for Something with Its Environmental Impact
Need versus want is a concept that we’ve talked about a great deal at Postconsumers, but what about need versus impact? That’s an equation that we haven’t touched on. However, as we all acknowledge the relationship between our culture’s addictive consumerism and the environmental crisis, we think that it’s an equation that requires adequate attention. While we’ve always taken the position that knowing how to say “no” to a purchase that you don’t [...]
Favorite Julia Butterfly Hill Quotes: Endorse Actions and Beliefs
“I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.” Julia Butterfly Hill More Earth-Inspired Content from Postconsumers Favorite Earth Day Quotes Organic Food Articles Energy Conservation Articles Climate Change Articles Green Living Articles All Our Favorite Quotes Get More Inspiration on the Social Media Channels Below Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Pinterest | Google+ | Medium Photo Credit: Jeffrey Rolinc via Flickr
Evaluating Environmental Wins and Losses in 2016
Last year during Earth Day month, we touched on the overwhelming feeling that people were beginning to be more discouraged and that Americans seemed to not care about being eco-friendly anymore. This year, that feeling may weigh even more heavily on you given the results of the 2016 American presidential election and subsequent policy maneuvers. But 2016 wasn’t in any way a complete loss for the environmental movement. In fact, there were many [...]
Favorite Julia Butterfly Hill Quotes: Stand Up Against Oil
“I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.’” Julia Butterfly Hill More Earth-Inspired Content from Postconsumers Favorite Earth Day Quotes Organic Food Articles Energy Conservation Articles Climate Change Articles Green Living Articles All Our [...]
A Little Earth Day Check-In on BPAs and Plastics
It’s not as though we’ve never talked about plastics on Postconsumers before. From laying out exactly how long it takes for a plastic bottle to biodegrade to giving you all of the information that you need about the harmful practice of using single-use plastic bags, we like to think that we’re doing our part to educate the world on the harmful nature of plastic, well, everything. In fact, we can’t say it better [...]
Biodiesel. Is That Even a Real Thing?
There’s a town in Western Pennsylvania, not far from Pittsburgh, where a very innovative mayor has been transforming a dying steel town into a self-sustaining community with tools like community gardens and … biodiesel. We know this because a member of the East Coast Postconsumers team drove through the town recently and passed by the community biodiesel stations. That got said team member thinking, “Why don’t you hear more about biodiesel in the [...]
