Free-To-Use Tools and Guides to Help You Help Earth

Guides

  • Clothing & Fashion

    • Patagonia (Outdoor and activewear)

    • Tentree (Casual and eco-friendly apparel)

    • Allbirds (Shoes and some apparel)

    • Reformation (Women's fashion)

    • Pact (Everyday basics and essentials)

    • Everlane (Minimalist, modern clothing)

    • Amour Vert (Sustainable fashion)

    • Veja (Eco-friendly sneakers)

    • Alternative Apparel (Casual, comfy clothing)

    • Ninety Percent (Fashion-forward sustainable clothing)

    • Outerknown (Casual, surf-inspired clothing)

    • Nudie Jeans (Denim and casual wear)

    • Sezane (Chic, Parisian-inspired fashion)

    • Stella McCartney (Luxury, designer fashion)

    • Organic Basics (Sustainable basics and underwear)

    • Kotn (Simple, high-quality essentials)

    • Yes Friends (Affordable, sustainable fashion)

    • Eileen Fisher (Timeless, sustainable clothing)

    • Pangaia (Tech-driven sustainable fashion)

    • Project HIU (Beachwear and accessories)

    Home & Personal Care

    • Who Gives a Crap (Eco-friendly toilet paper and home essentials)

    • Seventh Generation (Eco-friendly cleaning and household products)

    • Clarity Co 

    • Blueland (Cleaning)

    • Mr. Meyers Clean Day (Cleaning)

    • Cleancult (Cleaning)

    • Method (Cleaning)

    Food

    • Beyond Meat (Plant-based meat alternatives)

    • Thrive Market (Cheap with sustainable packaging, easy to order from)

    • Barnana (Bananas only but slave free)

    • Alara Wholefoods

    • Cliff (Energy Bars)

    • Cauldron

    • Venchi

    • Dr Schar

    • Alpro

    • Riverside Natural Foods

    • Cargill

    • Innocent Drinks

    • Danone

    • Unilever

    Beauty

    • RMS Beauty

    • Tata Harper

    • Juice Beauty

    • Lush

    • Kjaer Weis

    • REN Clean Skincare

    • AXIOLOGY

    • Ilia

    • True Botanicals

    • Aveda

    Car Companies That Are Pioneers For Emission-less Vehicles

    • Toyota

    • Hyundai

    • Kia

    • Nissan

    • BMW

    • Honda

  • Even something as simple as your diet can have a profound effect on the environment. There are many factors that can impact not just your own health, but the health of our planet, from the amount of meat you consume to where you get your groceries from. That is why it is important to understand how you might be impacting our planet negatively without realizing it.

    Changes YOU can make to help our planet:

    • Buying from local farmers and shops—support your community!

    • Enjoy produce thats in season

    • Reducing amount of red meat consumed

    • Reducing amount of dairy in your diet

    • Eating more fruits and vegetables

    • Eating whole grains

    • Eat some lentils-high in fiver and protein and have a low carbon footprint

    • Eat more beans-tasty, sustainable, and high in protein + vitamin B12

    • Choose sustainable foods! (like lentils and beans)

    • Buy organic foods

    Fun facts:

    • Rotating crops from heavy feeding crops like corn to soil enriching crops like lentis and beans helps mantain healthy soil. The USA made the mistake of not rotating crops, resulting in the Dustbowl in 1930

    • Meat can require 50 to 100 times more land per gram/kcal of protein than plant0based alternatives

    • Going meat free with your family for a day can have the same impact as not using your car for 5 weeks

    • Livestock, meat and dairy, production is responsible for 11-17% of greenhouse emissions in the atmosphere

    • When a cow defecates or burps it releases methane—a gas 28 times more potent at trapping heat that carbon dioxide

    • A person that buys from local businesses can sum up to 26% less automobile miles

    Alternatives for meat:

    • Tofu

    • Legumes (beans, lentils, etc)

    • Eggs

    • Seitan

    • Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)

    • Mycroprotein

    • Algae

    • Whey protein

    Better than red meat:

    • fish

    • chicken

    • pork


    Diets:

    We understand that going completely vegan is not for everyone here are some options for more eco-friendly diets.

    • Vegetarian Diet—not for everyone, but reduces amount of greenhouse gasses emitted from livestock


    • Mediterranean Diet—limits amount of livestock products, dairy and meat. Eating less meat, specially red meat, can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.


    • Planetary Health Diet—best diet that takes both you and the environment into account! Reduces greenhouse gas emissions, conserves water, protects biodiversity & forests, and lowers pollution & soil degradation