Whether you’re taking the family, getting away by yourself or you’re going with your significant other, everyone can plan their vacation with an eco-friendly perspective.

If you’re due for a vacation but you don’t want to go far in order to save money and reduce carbon emissions, then plan your next vacation close to home.

Toxins from everyday products are simply recycled through our air conditioning unit back into our airtight house over and over again. You could be breathing toxic air and never know it.

One of the biggest challenges with indoor living is keeping toxins out of the air.

According to the Council for Textile Recycling, the textile recycling industry saves more than 2.5 billion pounds of textiles from taking up landfill space. The clothes that charities and thrift stores can’t use are sent to “rag sorters” that sell most items to developing countries.

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When it was built, the shores of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal were home to bustling industries. Now the canal is now one of the most polluted waterways in the U.S.

“Save the whales,” I remember chanting with a childish vigor to my mom. I was a 6-year-old who wanted to save the world, starting with the whales, and that meant that she needed to turn the water off. Now.

Rent-a-Green Box, serving private residences and businesses, calls itself the first zero-waste pack-and-move company in the country, and claims to save the consumer 50% on cost and 20 hours on time involved as compared to traditional moving methods.

Ever since the green movement hit the U.S., it seems there have been a few companies that have taken huge criticism — Johnson & Johnson being one of the main companies. It has been accused of having toxic chemicals in its cosmetic and toiletry line, as well as not being earth friendly. After these initial stories hit the mainstream, Johnson & Johnson has had to clean up the mess.

The biggest current trend of in reuse? Upcycling, according to author K.B. Keilbach. Upcycling simply takes something, cleans it and uses it for something else.

What kid doesn’t love a fresh, new box of perfectly pointy crayons with that intoxicating smell of new wax? Now that thrill doesn’t have to end once crayons break or wear down, thanks to the new national recycling program that takes discarded crayons and makes them new again.