Happy plastic-free month! While plastic became a household staple less than a century ago, it has quickly become one of the top environmental polluters - an estimated 17.6 billion pounds of plastic...

‘Minimalism’  What does that mean anyway?  Our modern culture revolves around mindless distractions. It’s getting harder and harder every day to simplify our lives and sort out what is  truly impo...

The Fairtrade principle is simple. Consider this. When you delight in your daily morning caffeination ritual at the local cafe, you spend $3.50 on a cup of coffee. Have you wondered what percenta...

  Humans have been cutting down trees since time immemorial. We use them to make paper, burn fuel, construct things. Often we clear them away because they are in the way of something else we want t...