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Individual action can make a difference on climate change. Simple strategies towards reducing waste and increasing energy efficiency can lower your carbon footprint significantly.

Individual action can make a difference on climate change. Here are easy tips for lowering your carbon footprint significantly.

Real Gardeners, Real Climate Action

Even if you’re not a farmer or a corporate CEO, you can take part in the effort to regenerate our soil and reverse climate change. All you have to do is garden. Americans planted Victory Gardens during WWI and WWII to feed their communities and families at home, as part of supporting the war…

Greening School Fundraisers

Many school fundraisers sell magazines and candles that aren't green. But, a fundraiser can be sustainable, fair trade and eco-friendly too!
By Tracy Fernandez Rysavy

The Benefits of Biodiesel

Biodiesel outperforms gas, ethanol, and conventional diesel in reducing carbon dioxide emissions and in overall fuel-efficiency.
By Green America

Safe, Sustainable Seafood

As media attention causes more and more consumers to become aware of the troublesome levels of toxins in certain kinds of fish, the seafood industry is starting to feel the effects.When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an advisory in March 2004…
By Green America

A taco filled with mushrooms, avocado, red onion, and cilantro.

4 Sustainable Foods to Green Your Cooking

By replacing high emission ingredients with these four sustainable foods, you can promote sustainability for your kitchen and the planet.
By Jaxson Schor

Person celebrating with multi-colored confetti. Topic: Green America’s Guide to Sustainable Gifts, Holidays, and Special Occasions.

Green America’s Directory of Sustainable Gifts, Holidays, and Special Occasions

A short guide and directory to greening holidays and special occasions

The Importance of Sustainable Packaging

Packaging offered at most stores or coming via delivery can be frustratingly wasteful.

vegetable food scraps for indoor worm composter

DIY: Indoor Worm Composting

How to start your own worm composting operation in just a few easy steps!
By Mary Meade

Linda Black Elk teaching a foraging class in September 2019. Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle.

What is Foraging? Eating Local with Wild Foods

Foraging for food in nature is an ancient concept that lives on in the 21st century. Today’s foragers share their knowledge through social media and hands-on trainings.
By Mary Meade

5 Steps To A More Eco-Friendly Lawn

Avoid climate hazards in your backyard with these eco-friendly lawn swaps.
By Sytonia Reid and Beth Porter

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Uncrustables Go Non-GMO

Smuckers removes GMOs and high fructose corn syrup from Uncrustables, its very popular peanut butter and jelly product for kids. Green America's GMO Inside campaign has mobilized tens of thousands of consumers to ask Smuckers to remove GMOs from its products.

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Tell Comcast to Commit to 100% Renewable Energy

Comcast may entertain but all those streaming programs and entertainment comes at a cost – climate change.

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Walmart’s Climate Commitments Are at Risk

Walmart has a huge climate problem. Refrigerators in the companies’ stores are using potent super-pollutant gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), that are leaking and accelerating the climate crisis.

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End US Child Labor in the Meatpacking Industry

Child labor in slaughterhouses is shocking, and it’s something we have the power to stop. Join us in demanding JBS, Perdue, Cargill, and Tyson Foods stop child labor.

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A recent Vox piece by NRDC staffer Mary Annaise Heglar starts with a bold headline, “I Work in the Environmental Movement. I don’t care if you recycle.” The author says that when she meets people and tells them she works at…

5 Surprising Ways Your Internet Habits Are Impacting the Environment

By Kegan Gerard Emails: Tiny Climate Bombs Email may have done a great job improving productivity and reducing the amount of paper we waste, but those little messages can pack a carbon punch. An average email accounts for 4 grams…

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