By Seher Hasan The holidays/winter break is a time of spending time with family, eating delicious food, and possibly exchanging generous presents with others. However, this is the time when we are also a bit too generous with our waste. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans create extra waste of about 25 million tonsContinue reading “Eco-friendly Tips for the Winter”
Category Archives: Tips & Tricks
Leading a Sustainable Lifestyle
Written by Prashanth Boda, Zero-Waste Eco Rep New Year, New Planet? Let’s Make Sustainability a Resolution That Sticks As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, many of us make resolutions to improve our lives – to get healthier, wealthier, or maybe just more organized. But have you ever considered adding a planet-friendly resolutionContinue reading “Leading a Sustainable Lifestyle”
A Guide To Eating More Sustainably & Ethically
Written by Ida Ghorbani (Environmental Justice Eco Rep) Have you ever thought about how the food you buy and eat impacts the environment? Our consumptions do in fact have a big influence on the world around us, and there are many changes that we can make to reduce the harms that may be associated withContinue reading “A Guide To Eating More Sustainably & Ethically”
The Wonderful World of Sock Restoration
Image from Wren Birds Written by Anna Reid If you’re anything like me, you tear through socks. The once pristine, cute sock drawer now turned graveyard, with no sock escaping its hole ridden death. A little dramatic, but it gets my point across. All of us at least have or had a favorite pair ofContinue reading “The Wonderful World of Sock Restoration “
Composting: The Sustainable Superpower for Your Garden
Written by Prashanth Boda Welcome to the exciting world of composting!! Composting is like a magical recipe for turning your kitchen and yard waste into a powerful elixir for your garden. It’s like a science experiment where you mix all sorts of ingredients, from banana peels to grass clippings, and watch as they transform intoContinue reading “Composting: The Sustainable Superpower for Your Garden”
How to be Bird-Friendly
House Sparrow (© Brenda Clark, some rights reserved CC BY-NC 4.0) Written By Ian Seamans Making your home or apartment more bird-friendly is one of the most rewarding ways to be a conservationist. Watching a cardinal nibble from your bird feeder or watching a couple of mockingbirds dance from your kitchen window is a beautifulContinue reading “How to be Bird-Friendly”
Last, don’t crash: Swap Sugar for Honey in Your Coffee for a Better Energy Boost
Why is honey healthier than sugar? Although honey is higher in calories than sugar, it has many health benefits that sugar does not. Local honey can help with seasonal allergies because it contains pollen and it is rich in calcium and vitamin C while sugar is not. Due to honey’s low glycemic properties, it alsoContinue reading “Last, don’t crash: Swap Sugar for Honey in Your Coffee for a Better Energy Boost”
Leftover Food Scraps?
Happy summer! If you’re looking for some fun projects to take on this break, you can maybe look to regrow your food scraps! There are many plants that you can regrow at home, even pineapples (but that gets really difficult). I’ve narrowed my list down to the easiest plants that you can regrow at home, with resultsContinue reading “Leftover Food Scraps?”
The 5 R’s
Many of us probably have heard about the 3 Rs from a young age. In elementary school, you’re taught the framework ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’. These terms were first popularized in the late 1970s followed by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). The goal of this act was for theContinue reading “The 5 R’s”
Sustainable Self-Care Ideas
With everything that is going on right now, many of us are having to stay in at home and some of us, we feel anxiety and stress more than others. I know mental health can definitely take a hit during this time, so if you’re feeling a lot of worry about the current situation, rememberContinue reading “Sustainable Self-Care Ideas”
The Greenhouse Blog 