Category: Conscious Consumption


  • The War on Plastic

    “The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.”- Joshua Beck By: Leslie Phillips, Alternative Medicine Practitioner, Founder of Lifey.Me Did you know the majority of plastic use is for packaging? According to the EPA, (2024, April 2), 14.5 million tons of plastics in 2018 alone was used for packaging. Let’s put that in perspective- one…

  • How well do you know your purse?

    Purses have a story too. The first recorded purse was created back in 1841, due to a man noticing that his wife needed a way to carry several items at once while still looking elegant, though the concept dated even farther. From the beginning, purses were normally made from cloth or leather. Some early purse…

  • The Pollution War

    Plastic Pollution is Serious According to statistics, we have already lost 60% of terrestrial wildlife and 90% of big ocean fish. We are at risk of the extinction of one million species within this century. Research states that, by 2050, plastic will likely outweigh all fish in the sea. Plastic generally takes between 500-1000 years…

  • Building a relationship with your food

    The Parable of the Sower found in Luke 8 explains the power of a seed, though in the chapter the seed was representing the word, it still had layers of significant meaning. “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on,…