When deciding party affiliation, we are made to believe that only two routes are politically realistic or culturally feasible: Democrat or Republican.  The reality is that both are inefficient...

I learned about the zero waste movement from the recommended section of YouTube. As vlogs about zero waste and minimalism popped up, my entire philosophy on life changed. Before this, I considered myself...

Everything in my closet is secondhand. I have gotten everything, from sweaters to shoes, at secondhand stores such as Goodwill and Plato’s Closet — or from pieces my sisters have outgrown....

We have all heard the narrative: Illegal immigrants are coming into the United States bringing crime and drugs and stealing jobs. They are parasites here to live off of and threaten the security of Americans...

The magnitude of America’s plastic consumption shows that we’ll sacrifice anything for convenience.  Since the beginning of the large-scale production of plastic in the 1950s, humans...

I’ll be honest. I started wearing cloth pads in response to a dare. Before, I was an ordinary gal with an ordinary period experience. I gave no more thought to why I was wearing tampons than the...

The food waste we generate, combined with all the other trash in landfills, directly contributes to climate change. When buried in landfills, food decomposes slowly in the absence of oxygen. This results...

From soda cans to pieces of paper, we have all been guilty of throwing things away that could have been recycled. So when we do recycle, we tend to feel pretty good about ourselves and our impact on the...