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Reducing Food Waste in the Kitchen

Feb. 16, 2022

Food waste. It is an insanely important sustainability issue that we can improve within our own homes! Research estimates that upwards of 50% of the total amount of food that is wasted comes from our own kitchens.

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Lifestyles of a Sustainable Buff with your FREE EcoKit

Feb. 16, 2022

Learn about sustainable habits from other eco minded students at CU Boulder and get free tools to turn your home green!

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Zero Waste Daily Routines for Students

Feb. 11, 2022

An individual following a zero-waste lifestyle is someone who has consciously made changes to their habits in order to align themselves with the mindset of a nonpolluting future. Our generation is the first to grow up in a world that requires all of us to implement sustainability into our lives...

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The Future of Zero Waste Living: Sustainable Architecture

Feb. 7, 2022

According to Live Kindly , sustainable architecture is “any architecture that attempts to limit the negative environmental impact of building construction and operation.” There are a few formal authorities who are able to provide confirmation of sustainable architecture, including the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Building Research Establishment...

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How to Have a Zero Waste Valentine’s Day

Feb. 7, 2022

There are two different types of people on Valentine’s Day: those who love it, and those who are very annoyed by it. Thoughts on the holiday aside, it’s still a great excuse to do something nice for anyone in your life you appreciate!

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Zero Waste Resolutions for the Zero Waste Outreach Team

Feb. 7, 2022

It’s a new year and a new semester which means it’s a perfect time to reflect on past habits and work to be better for not only ourselves but for our planet. New year resolutions are fun to plan, but often hard to maintain.

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Crypto Woes: Cryptocurrency and Climate Change, from Coal to E-Waste

Feb. 7, 2022

By now, most people have heard of Bitcoin. With the rise of digital products such as NFTs, our world is shifting more and more online. But unless you’ve gone down the rabbit hole yourself and bought some crypto, you might still have questions about how it all works.

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Challenges in Recycling

Feb. 4, 2022

Recycling seems like a seamless solution to the plastic waste issue plaguing our oceans, air, and soil. However, there are many challenges faced by the recycling industry that individual consumers can alleviate.

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“Reuse” Life Hacks

Feb. 4, 2022

Welcome back from break everyone... this semester is off to a running start, as we are already into February!

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Environmental Justice and Waste in the Denver-Metro Area

Dec. 1, 2021

The Environmental Justice Movement seeks to achieve equal distribution of the environmental benefits and burdens of economic growth. This movement began in the 1980’s, when Robert Bullard did research regarding race and pollution. He found “race to be the single most important factor (i.e., more important than income, homeownership rate,...

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