Community Team

The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the Food Marketing Institute, and Harvard University have combined efforts to streamline expiration labels about the quality and safety of food. Two phrases simplify how you can tell what’s still good to consume:

"There is no Planet B. Let's cherish and protect the only home we have."

You can find the links to the calculators for carbon and water footprints at the section of the platform for https://earthmonth.ecochallenge.org/dashboards/challenges/land-water-and-air There is one challenge to calculate your carbon footprint with links to several different, simple, online tools. Calculate your water footprint is a separate...

We are pretty water conscious in our house and I am excited to have learned about a couple of things that could help us save water. They are potentially the Altered:Nozzle which has a spray option for hand washing at a sink as well as a regular low-flow stream, perhaps a composting toilet and diverting washing machine water to irrigation uses....

I'm reporting on the one time action of calculating my carbon footprint and deciding what actions to take to shrink it. I used the three calculators given as resources and find that my footprint is somewhere between 0.5 and 1 times what a typical American has but it is still a lot bigger than what we need to do to protect our ecosytems and...

Humans, animals and plants all suffer from land and water contaminated by improperly discarded garbage. Use what you need, and when you have to throw something out, dispose of it properly.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley

Even a single tree or shrub can offer a refuge – just remember to skip insecticides and other chemicals

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” —Will Rogers

When you throw food away, you're also wasting the resources and energy that were used to grow, produce, package, and transport it. And when food rots in a landfill, it produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas