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Jun 24, 2021
4 min

A Guide to Healthy Sustainable Sunscreens

Summer is already here! Can you believe it??? With Covid restrictions lifted in California, people flock everywhere. A very hot and dry summer season is ahead of us, so many will spend plenty of time on the beach to escape the brutal heat. Lots of sun exposure calls for proper skin protection. Unfortunately, not all sunscreens are created equal. Even though they might offer protection from burning, many conventional sunscreens have been known to contain chemicals that are not

Sep 15, 2020
6 min

A Compost Guide For Every Type

Composting is a thing these days. I have been thinking about it for a while because my diet is 90% plant based, I make everything fresh

Sep 8, 2020
1 min

29 Tips For A Sustainable Kitchen

The kitchen can create a lot of waste, from food, to packaging, to water and energy usage. It can also be a place for toxic cleaning product

Aug 25, 2020
1 min

22 Tips For A Sustainable Bathroom

The bathroom can be a big eco crime scene, from the amount of water we waste, to all the virgin plastic packaging in our beauty products, to

Aug 18, 2020
3 min

Non-Toxic And Sustainable Sunscreens

When it comes to sunscreen you have to choose wisely. Standard sunscreens contain a chemical filter and therefore lots of chemicals. Chemica

Aug 11, 2020
3 min

Microplastics And What You Can Do About It

Microplastic is everywhere and it’s one of the biggest environmental problems that most people haven’t even heard of. The tiny plastic piece

Aug 4, 2020
4 min

There’s No Room for Absence of Action

I recently wrote a blog post about plastic pollution because of the global Plastic Free July Challenge, but I have to write about it again a

Jul 30, 2020
4 min

6 Tips For Sustainable Eating

Agriculture is the largest cause of global environmental change today. It's responsible for deforestation, desertification, damage to coasta

Jul 14, 2020
4 min

14 Ways To Save Energy For Your Pocket & Planet

Being energy efficient is a lot easier than you think. There are two main reasons for energy conservation, to save money on your utility bil

Jun 30, 2020
4 min

Sustainable Sexy Sleep

Indoor toxins can be really dangerous. 3.8 million deaths are attributed to household air pollution annually, according to the World Health

Jun 24, 2020
6 min

12 Sustainable Household Solutions

What are the basics you use everyday? How many of these things come in plastic packaging or in other unsustainable form? If you look around

Jun 17, 2020
4 min

What Is Regenerative Agriculture?

One very important thing I have been meaning to write about for a while is regenerative agriculture. After all, we ingest food every day

Jun 5, 2020
5 min

Isms

The world we live in is overwhelming. The pace of events is staggering. It’s one thing right after the other. If we look at this year of 202

May 27, 2020
8 min

How To Recycle? A Comprehensive Guide, Sort Of

If you google how to recycle you want to pull your hair out because it’s made so complicated and confusing.

May 21, 2020
3 min

What Is A Circular Economy?

A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating

May 14, 2020
4 min

Sustainable State Of Mind

The trails opened in Los Angeles last weekend. I purposefully didn’t go Saturday or Sunday because I knew it would be crowded. What is the p

May 6, 2020
3 min

What is Blue Beauty?

I was very excited to learn about a new clean beauty trend called Blue Beauty, I read about in an Elle article.

Apr 28, 2020
2 min

Sustainable Flowers For Mother's Day & A Few Words of Wisdom

Mother’s Day is around the corner, which will obviously be quite different this year. Even if you won’t be able to see your mom, you can

Apr 22, 2020
3 min

Earth Day Is Every Day

Today, April 22, 2020 marks the 50 year anniversary of Earth Day. Let’s face it, humans in quarantine has been great for our planet. Air

Mar 14, 2020
3 min

How To Stay Healthy And Sane During Crisis

I though long and hard what I want to blog about this week as our lives are turned upside down with the Coronavirus outbreak...I want to tak

Mar 5, 2020
3 min

How To Live More Sustainably The Easy Way

Living more sustainably is less complicated than most people think. It doesn’t mean you have to live at the bare minimum.

Feb 25, 2020
4 min

The State of the World

I really don’t care whether people believe climate change is real or not. I don’t need to convince anybody. The reality is the climate on pl

Feb 18, 2020
6 min

A Trillion Toxic Gallons

Fossil Fuels are a hot topic these days. A lot of people link them to climate change, others argue that they have nothing to do with global

Feb 11, 2020
2 min

Love Your Planet

Since the creation of Ad Vitam I have been in a hot pursuit of plastic free, more sustainable alternatives for everything. I came across

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