carbon footprint
UrbisEco Home was founded to address the surprising fact that indoor air is often 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air, even in cities. This realization drove the founder, L. Christina Cobb, a sustainable living expert with a background in furniture, to spend over 10,000 hours researching the health
eco living
Got milk? Heck yeah, I do. But it doesn't come from these: I mean, honestly, when you really think about it, the idea of drinking milk is pretty gross right from the start. Come on, would you drink your mother's breastmilk right now? How about your
Conservation
Ka-whoooosh, sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh, glug-waahhhh…..sssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Okay, I did my best. Who can tell me what household object makes this sound? Undoubtedly because my sound effect descriptions are terrible (I need to read more comic books), it is perfectly natural that you have no idea. The correct answer is the humble toilet!
About Me
Ever wish you could ditch the guilt associated with throwing away a tube of toothpaste every month? Do you ever go to the supermarket toothpaste aisle and just feel like all the different kinds of toothpastes flavors and benefits are just a bunch of marketing ploys designed to make them
Eco Swaps
Lizzie Horvitz is back to discuss her challenge and how it went! If you don't remember, she founded Finch, a browser extension that helps you select sustainable products on Amazon. It's a tool that educates people on the ins and outs of sustainability, making it easier
Eco Swaps
Isabel Aagaard is an entrepreneur and collaborative designer on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic by creating reusable alternatives to single-use items we use daily. She's the creator of the world’s first reusable cotton swab, LastSwab, which raised more than 1.2M USD from more than 30,
eco living
Looking to reduce waste in your kitchen? Here are some ideas for products that will help you cut waste in your kitchen! The key is in the reusables!
eco living
Looking to make your bathroom more environmentally-friendly? If you didn't have time to read my blog post on it, you can check it out in video form here!
eco living
As you guys know, I started my own online store, The Eco Swap Shop! Here's a video introduction to it! Check out the shop at https://ecoswap.shop!
Climate Change
Being environmentally-friendly during a time when it’s hard to get out of your house to visit the environment can be tricky, but it’s not impossible! Most of the impact we have on the world comes from the choices that we make in the home. So today I wanted
Climate Change
There are many aspects to reducing your environmental impact on the world. Sometimes it takes changing habits, sometimes it takes replacing environmentally UNfriendly things with eco-friendly options, and sometimes it takes both. But one thing is certain: there are many ways to make your life more eco and if you
Eco Swaps
If you’ve ever seen my Instagram, you know I’m just a guy who wants to make my life a little more environmentally friendly. I started Verdant Growth as a way of challenging myself to be better for the environment; to do things that help slow climate change, reduce