organic

How green is your makeup?

Beauty doesn’t need to be harmful to us, animals, or the planet. Making better choices when buying cosmetics can reduce waste, reduce the use of plastic packaging, and is an easy way to step up our environmental game. If you are choosing a more sustainable lifestyle and you care about the planet, here is how you can make a difference with your makeup bag.

For over the past two decades the animal rights movement, or animal liberation movement, has championed efforts to scale back animal abuse, as well as sought to end the ongoing use of animals in the food, clothing, research, and entertainment industries. With animal rights activism growing more and more daily, the movement has already made significant strides during this time, and is now backed by the following:

• Doctors

• Lawyers

• Academia

With the climate crisis becoming ever direr, it is critical for us all to do what we can to help protect the environment. These five tips can help you live a greener lifestyle. 

You may ask why I should choose to reflect on the lowly onion.

So pale and strong in its commonplace role in the kitchen. It marches forth into stews and soups alongside routine bedfellows of celery, carrot, and spuds. We barely give onions a second thought as we shop and chop and cook. Yet, they were once of prominent importance and played a role in love and war and cuisines of the ages. Not always so mundane were these tender, translucent orbs of pungency.

I found myself on a plane to mingle and speak at the Independent Natural Food Retailers Association  (INFFRA) conference in Minnesota. As the great desert gave way to the patchwork of Midwestern fields, I was awed by the amount of food being produced beneath me.