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10 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Kids

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Earth Day is just around the corner and we’ve got you covered with a list of 10 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Kids. If you haven’t already, take the opportunity to talk to your kids about Earth day and why it’s so important they learn about all the different ways they too can help preserve our planet. Keep it simple and make it fun. We’ve got some great ideas that will get your kids interested in observing the wonderful world around them while also learning to appreciate the what it has to offer .

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5 Items You Should Be Recycling

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These days more products than ever are being recycled. Many of these items are things a lot of us never
considered to be recyclable. These 5 Items You Should Be Recycling are just a very few of those
products. I don’t know about you, but I find myself feeling more and more guilty when I throw something in the trash without trying to first figure out a way to repurpose or recycle it. At any given time I have 2 or 3, [Read more…]

How I Gave Up My Environmentally Unfriendly Indulgence

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If you’re a person who considers themselves to be environmentally conscious, then you’re probably someone who looks for new ways to reduce your environmental footprint. If you’re like me and have adopted a lot of good personal environmental practices like drastically reducing household chemical usage as well as eliminating single-use plastic products, then you’re looking even deeper at your habits. Maybe you’ve found your environmental hot spots. In other words, maybe you’ve discovered some of your personal environmentally unfriendly indulgences.  I’ve discovered one of mine. And I [Read more…]

5 Easy Ways to Reduce Food Waste

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In my house, the #1 way most food is wasted is from my picky 2-year-old throwing food on floor when he doesn’t like it. A challenge I face daily is finding the balance between offering new foods and foods I know he’ll eat. All in effort to reduce food waste.

The second most common way household food is wasted is [Read more…]

10 Ways to Reuse Newspaper

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Plastic-free July is coming to an end, and I’m happy to report that I did pretty well at eliminating single-use plastic products from my life. I slipped a few times by using plastic shopping bags, and a couple of times I didn’t use my reusable cup when I went for coffee.

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9 Ways to Reduce Household Plastic Waste

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We here at From Under a Palm Tree always strive to be more eco-friendly in our personal and professional lives. We have made it our mission to decrease our footprint by living more sustainable lives, reducing waste, and conserving resources.

In efforts to improve the quality of our Earth, I have signed the Plastic Free July Challenge and committed myself to Reduce Household Plastic Waste. Single-use plastic bags and bottles can take up to 500 years to decompose in landfills, however, most don’t even reach them. A large number of throw-away plastics end up in our oceans, leaving behind chemicals and toxic particles, destroying marine life all over the world. [Read more…]

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