Lifebox – Cardboard Ecosystems You can Ship
This year we joined Amazon Prime which has increased our online shipping as well as the amount of cardboard that comes into the house. We recycle it each week, but I feel bad when I see the pile of boxes that come into the house regularly. There is a lot of water and energy that goes into making the cardboard [...]
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Carbon Offsets for Travel: Where Does it Go?
Yesterday I bought a plane ticket to North Carolina to visit my brother and his family. When I was doing the final payment review, I saw the carbon offset option labeled “Leave the World a Better Place™ – Carbon Offsetting Option.” The amount of money that was estimated to offset my amount of CO2 from this itinerary ( for around [...]
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The 7 Billion of Us – All Together
If you haven’t heard yet – this weekend the population of the world will be 7 billion. The 7 billionth baby somewhere in the world will be born around Halloween (or maybe if he/she is lucky – on Halloween.) A study found that it will be possible to feed up to 10 billion people – but that it will not [...]
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