Practical Ways You Can Spark Change

COVID-19 has upended daily life. Here are some small steps you can take to help make your time spent indoors cleaner, calmer, and greener.

Tips for discussing the basic facts, answering tough questions, and helping your kids cope with climate anxiety—even when you, too, are feeling overwhelmed.

Natural solutions like mulch, cover crops, vinegar, and a little elbow grease will help keep the chemicals out of your garden—and your body.

For a healthier backyard garden, you need to invite nature in. Try a few strategies featured in the documentary "The Biggest Little Farm."

How to cook what you’ll eat, eat what you cook, and save on your grocery bills, too.

Indulge your guests without spoiling the planet this season.

Five ways to indulge your sweet tooth and your spooky side without a whole lot of waste or frightful chemicals.

Fire-wise tips for your home, your garden beds, the fence line, and that marshmallow roast you’re planning.

Eight ways to help your district’s students and parents be better environmental citizens.

Try incorporating these small tweaks into your routine. You’ll throw out less trash, and help fight climate change at the same time.

Kids have a natural connection to the earth, as well as a drive to heal it. And that may be our saving grace.

Avoid harmful pesticides, preservatives, and other unhealthy additives—especially when you’re feeding growing bodies.

Our guide to buying greener beans, brewing with less waste, and avoiding all that packaging.

Anxious about where our planet is headed? Tip one: You’re not alone—and that means a lot.

Milk does a body good, but it also does a number on the planet.

Your vacuum and a damp rag can get you pretty far. All those bottles under the sink are another story.

Is shopping online or in-store better for the environment? It depends—on you.

Caring for your pet while caring for the planet is about more than buying recycled toys and organic dog food.

Questionable chemicals lurk in many common home-renovation materials. But safer alternatives do exist.

Planning meals in advance can seem intimidating. But it doesn’t have to be. (No, really.) Arm yourself with these 10 easy tips, and you’ll be scheduling meals and saving food like a pro in no time at all.