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Blogs: Sustainability

Lights Out! Welcome to our Hour of Power!

Things have started to heat up where the climate crisis is concerned. And just in the nick of time, too, because the scientific community is growing more concerned about global warming. So get ready to spend some time in the dark as you participate in the largest climate movement in history. Earth...

Taking Big Bites Out of Small Gardens

We've just passed the spring equinox, a welcome milestone that means it's time to get serious about garden planning. But if your space is at a premium, that's not as simple as it sounds. What exactly should we plant when we haven't got room to plant much at all? Here are some...

Belief in Climate Change Grows: The Winter That Wasn't

I don't know how it's been where you are, but up here in the distant north, it's been the winter that wasn't. No snow. No ice. No cold. At least none worth noticing, and this after a year of cataclysmic floods and record snowfall. To call the weather weird is an exercise in great...

Why Does the Lorax Love Our 4X Detergent?

Could it be our triple-enzyme, stain-fighting power? Or our revolutionary, earth-friendly bottle? Actually, it's both! And the more you know about our friend The Lorax and his message of environmental truth and ecological hope, the more you can see why all sorts of things about our Natural 4X...

Reinventing Fire: A Solution to "Peak Everything"

We've all heard about peak oil -- the point at which petroleum production hits its all-time high and then declines forever after -- but over at Bloomberg News, they spent last week fretting about Peak Everything: a civilization running out of essentials from energy to chocolate. They've...