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If you’ve always wanted to compost but think it’s impossible because you live in an apartment or a house with a small yard, consider composting with worms. Using worms in composting is called vermiculture. It involves keeping special red worms—either Red Wigglers and Red Earthworms—in bins with organic matter in order to break it down […]

People who work to save rainforests and protect wildlife are urging consumers to refrain from buying Halloween candy made with palm oil. Why?  For one thing, palm oil producers in Indonesia and Malaysia rely on forced and child labor and Indonesia’s palm oil industry is rife with human-rights abuses. For another, companies clear tropical rainforests to plant their oil palm trees, which […]

Wait a minute—how do dryer sheets do that?Mmm, the fresh scent of laundry that’s been dried with dryer sheets. Unfortunately, dryer sheets can contain some harmful chemicals—including hidden fragrance chemicals that lots of people are sensitive to—that vent off into the air we breath and rub off on our clothes and then onto our skin. […]