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6 Startling Animated Short Films About How Humans Trash the Environment


Whether you’re a treehugger or a lazy environmentalist (or anything in between), check out these six very cool (yet very troubling) animated short videos about coal and other fossil fuels, bottled water, electronics, and other environmental issues and challenges. Here are three of our particular favorites: … More »

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6 Startling Animated Short Films About How Humans Trash the Environment

Composting Without a Yard? Eco-Friendly Living for Lazy Urbanites (Part 1)


I’ve always seen composting as the final frontier in environmentally sensitive living. Having enough outdoor space for a compost bin and a garden that could benefit from the nutrient-rich soil it yields would be great, but it’s an impossibility for someone like me who lives in a tiny urban apartment with no yard. Riding my bicycle, taking short showers, and hauling my groceries in reusable tote bags would have to do for now; composting would have to wait until I was living it up in a sprawling country estate.

So you can imagine what an ass I felt like when I discovered that several of my friends have been composting in their pint-size apartments for years. How had I missed the fact that I could compost easily and on the cheap, while lacking green space? … More »

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Composting Without a Yard? Eco-Friendly Living for Lazy Urbanites (Part 1)

Bad news: Even your carefully-chosen organic peanut butter could be bad for the environment. Peanut butter, like several other “good” foods, can contain palm oil — an oil that’s a much healthier alternative to hydrogenated oil, but one that’s pretty hard on the environment. (In short, the growth of palm oil trees, primarily in Malaysia and Indonesia, has required clearing large swaths of rainforest, displacing communities and leading many species toward extinction.)


– Blisstree Deputy Editor Briana Rognlin on the perils of palm oil, from her post: Your Organic Peanut Butter Is Hurting the Environment: 10 “Good” Foods With Bad Palm Oil Habits (and What You Should Buy Instead)
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Bad news: Even your carefully-chosen organic peanut butter could be bad for … More »

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Bad news: Even your carefully-chosen organic peanut butter could be bad for the environment. Peanut butter, like several other “good” foods, can contain palm oil — an oil that’s a much healthier alternative to hydrogenated oil, but one that’s pretty hard on the environment. (In short, the growth of palm oil trees, primarily in Malaysia and Indonesia, has required clearing large swaths of rainforest, displacing communities and leading many species toward extinction.)