Practical Ways You Can Spark Change

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

Learn to trust yourself more and worry less about the date labels on your food.

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

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.

Want to make a real difference with your grocery money? Find out where and how your food is produced.

Debunking five popular myths that lead us to needlessly throw out meals—and money.

With minimal effort, you can turn those banana peels and apple cores into gold. Let us break it down.

How to get rid of bugs and vermin without putting your own family’s health at risk.

Chemicals used to clean clothes can be toxic—and expensive. One thing they’re not? Necessary.

Stand up to oil and natural gas companies using this three-pronged approach.

How to find family-friendly flea and tick products that will provide effective care without skull-and-crossbones ingredients.

Finding upholstered furniture free of harmful flame retardants is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

So you’ve stopped doing half loads of laundry and running the faucet when you brush your teeth. Great! Did you know about all these other ways you can avoid wasting hundreds of gallons of water a day?

Quick and easy things you can do to reduce water pollution and runoff.

Help keep our marine life from eating and swimming in garbage.

How to decode all those labels, find responsible producers, and help force change in the beef-production industry through the power of your dollars.

To make sure that that kale is good for you and the environment, you should really get to know it better.

Despite what the industry will tell you, BPA is toxic. NRDC scientist Veena Singla wants it—and its equally poisonous replacements—out of our products.