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Greening Your Coffee Habit

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer bean, beans, brew, cafe, coffee, coffee habit, compostable, deforestation, drip, espresso, forest, French, K-cup, Keurig, latte, over, pour, pourover, Press, Rainforest Alliance, tropical, tropical rainforest, tropics, UTZ, Woken

Our coffee habit takes a toll on the environment in terms of deforestation and biodiversity loss in the tropics as well as raising our carbon footprint.

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Carbon Pawprints: How Our Dogs & Cats Contribute to Global Warming

Georgina Guiney animal, animals, Buttons, carbon dioxide, carcinogen, cat, cats, CO2, compostable, dog, dogs, doo, emissions, Fido, Fluffy, gas, greenhouse, International Agency for Research on Cancer, kitten, litter, mine, mining, non-point, nonpoint, pet, pets, pollutant, poop, puppy, rights, silica, source, strip, stripmining, vegetarian, vegetarianism, waste, Worldwatch Institute

Unfortunately, our beloved dogs and cats do produce shockingly high amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming…

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