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Fashion Done Environmentally Conscious
In the world of fast fashion, be the mindful buyer. According to the Business Insider, fast fashion “emits more carbon than international flights and maritime shipping combined”. The fact is we buy more and more clothes and thus enable the fashion industry to manufacture more collections, produce more carbon emissions, release more microfibers into the ocean, and…
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Why I Became a Vegan
I wish I could say I became a vegan because of the animals, and it’s true, but only partially. My reasons for becoming a vegan were a bit more selfish – I stopped consuming anything animal because of my health. I have had bad migraines ever since I remember; and when I say migraines I…
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Reduce Your Consumer Impact, Food Edition
Eat eco-consciously with the help of these 5 companies. We’ve shown you how to reduce your consumer impact on our environment, how to shop mindfully during the holidays and we’ve shown you how to use the internet for good. Now, we present to you further companies, with the help of which, we can all reduce our…
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Vegan Food in Vienna: Ultimate Guide
Vienna is a gold mine of vegan food. You can go to pretty much any restaurant, shop, market, café, bar, or bakery without any fear – most of them have at least one vegan option in their assortment (and no, it’s not just a salad!). Below is a compiled list of our favourite “vegan” destinations:…
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Reduce Your Consumer Impact This Holiday Season with These 5 Gift Suggestions
Don’t get rash – and produce trash – in the buying spree, instead shop mindfully! Gift-giving produces waste; in fact, just the necessary material for wrapping gifts produces 1 million tons of trash each week, reports The Washington Post. A good way to reduce this waste-creation during the holiday season is to create something unique…
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12 Documentaries to Watch Right Now
Many of us are still stuck in quarantine and if you’re like me, you are running out of ideas of watching something of quality and intelligence (something different from Tiger King). Hopefully this will help – a list of 12 visually-compelling, entertaining, clever, feel-good, making-you-sit-in-a-corner-rethinking- your-whole-life sort of documentaries. Some of them are about personal growth,…
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Internet for a Good Cause
Did you know that you can help with donations without actually giving money? Crazy, right?! But you can! Da-dam, enter Tab for a cause! It is a free platform where every time that you open a new tab you raise money via their (nonintrusive) advertisements. They donate at least 30% of the revenue to the…
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5 Ways to Reduce Your Consumer Impact on the Planet
Small steps lead to great actions. Lately, all we seem to hear about is how badly we impact our planet. We cannot close our eyes from the negative effects we have on the environment that gives us life. Like it or not, the humans are mainly to blame, and it is great that this hot…
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The Dangers of Plastic Bags
Every year, one trillion bags are used, equating to 2 million per minute. Did the number shock you? If so, good – the change has to start with you. Whenever you are in the store, ask yourself: “Do I really need this bag?”. I know what you are thinking: “I do not use that much plastic!“, or…
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