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It’s true: Antique furniture is better than new. A recent study by Carbon Clear found that buying vintage produces six times fewer carbon emissions than purchasing new pieces, since no additional resources are required ...Read More

To cut back on food waste at home, try doing a "family-style" dinner where you and your guests serve yourselves in the kitchen and bring your plates of food to the table. When we plate food at the dining table, we tend to ...Read More

The more you can do to help bring dinner to the table quickly, the better. The next time you’re boiling water for pasta, consider placing a metal steamer basket on top of the pot and then placing the pot’s lid on top ...Read More

Turn off auto-play on streaming platforms and social feeds so videos only play when you choose to watch them. Auto-playing content quietly consumes data and energy, even when you’re not paying attention. Disabling it ...Read More

Cloud-based bytes of information come from data centers where an incredible amount of energy is consumed to meet the constant demand from users. In fact, these centers currently use a whopping 2% of the world's energy. ...Read More

Here’s a smart, easy way to reduce electricity use when working on your desktop computer -- and lessen your impact on the environment. Lower your monitor brightness from 100% to about 70%. The change is barely noticeable...Read More