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9 Surprising Ways You Can Be More Sustainable
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9 Surprising Ways You Can Be More Sustainable

Sustainability is the practice of avoiding sucking up natural resources to maintain Mama Earth’s important ecological balance. This also means taking care of planet and people, making sure our complete ecosystem (you included!) has access to what it needs to thrive. Unfortunately, we’re not doing such a great job.

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5 Reasons to Add Solar Power to Your Home
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5 Reasons to Add Solar Power to Your Home

As energy prices continue to skyrocket, we’re all looking for ways to save money on our monthly bills. And the environmentalists among us are also looking to decrease our dependency on brown energy, like natural gas. Enter the sun.

You’ve no doubt seen solar panels lining rooftops and otherwise empty fields. And while there’s a hefty initial investment involved, solar panels might be the planet-friendly solution you’ve been looking for.

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Our Favorite Sustainable Brands
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Our Favorite Sustainable Brands

With so many brands making “green” promises—and most of them charging an arm and a leg for their stuff—it’s tough to know what’s worth it and what’s not. We’ve got you covered. Here are our top 7 favorite sustainable brands.

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6 Reasons to Eat More Plants
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6 Reasons to Eat More Plants

For the meat-eaters out there (like us), it can be hard to imagine a life without our favorite meals: hamburgers, steaks, and fried chicken. But here’s the thing: Eating meat isn’t all that great for our bodies or for our planet.

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How to Make Your Home an Oasis
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How to Make Your Home an Oasis

We spend so. much. time in our indoor spaces—cooking, eating, sleeping, relaxing, working, and *cough* the bedroom stuff. Often, our homes are places to escape the hustle and bustle of the outside world.

Your home should be an oasis—a sanctuary where you can find peace and calm whenever you need it. If that’s not how your home feels right now, It’s time to take it back, one step at a time!

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Our New Dwell Denver Gifting Plan
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Our New Dwell Denver Gifting Plan

Like most folks, we’ve found ourselves spending the last couple of years in reflection mode. Over and over again, we sat down, got super serious, and asked ourselves, “What really matters to us?”

The more we thought about it—and the more the world around us kept changing—we kept coming back to this: Connection.

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Spring Home Maintenance Checklist
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Spring Home Maintenance Checklist

Spring cleaning is upon us. And if you’re anything like us, you’re pretty much dreading it.

Whether it’s actually doing the tasks at hand or the planning and prep you hate the most, spring cleaning and maintenance can be a real buzzkill. 

For the planning-isn’t-really-my-thing folks out there, this blog is def for you.

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Our Favorite Sustainable Products
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Our Favorite Sustainable Products

If you’re anything like us, you get stuck in this all-or-nothing mentality when it comes to sustainability. Either you’re 100% zero-waste or what’s the point, right?

But the truth is, even tiny swaps can make a big impact on our environment.

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How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree
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How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

After the holiday season it can be tricky to know exactly what to do next. The tree’s not going to just stay there the whole year, right? Sooooo… how in the world do you get rid of a Christmas tree?

The short answer? You recycle it.

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9 Tips for Setting (and Keeping!) Intentions This New Year
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9 Tips for Setting (and Keeping!) Intentions This New Year

New Year’s resolutions are A-W-F-U-L. We feel the pressure to become this new, more evolved person just because we’re flipping over the calendar. 

By February 27, when we’ve gone back to our old ways, we beat ourselves up and totally call it quits. Then, what do we do the next year? Yup… we do it all over again.

This year let’s ditch the resolutions. Let’s try intentions instead.

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37 Questions for More Intentional Holiday Conversations
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37 Questions for More Intentional Holiday Conversations

Connection is something we could all use a little (or a lot!) more of. That’s one of the reasons we L-O-V-E the holiday season. From November to January, we’re all warm and fuzzy thinking about all the opportunities to live, laugh, love (sorry) with our friends and family. 

But, let’s be honest. Sometimes holiday connection feels just a tad… forced.

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9 Tips for Sustainable Gift Giving
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9 Tips for Sustainable Gift Giving

As it turns out, the holidays aren’t that great for Mama Earth.  For example, we pitch 25% more trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day than any other time of year. That’s 25 million tons of garbage.

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How to Exercise a Some Holiday Spending Restraint (without being a Scrooge)
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How to Exercise a Some Holiday Spending Restraint (without being a Scrooge)

Everything is more expensive nowadays. But during the holidays, we try to ignore the sticker price, don’t we? After all, we want our friends and family to have all the things.

But then January rolls around and we get our first credit card statement of the new year… which prompts us to add “stick to a budget” to our list of New Year’s resolutions. Again.

Here are 10 Ways to Save Over the Holidays.

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9 Tips for Preventing Food Waste
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9 Tips for Preventing Food Waste

Since many of us will soon be bellying up to an overflowing Thanksgiving table, we decided this would be the perfect time to both express gratitude for all that delicious food—and pay homage to the planet that produced it. And there’s no better way to do that than to make our celebrations a little more sustainable.

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The What, Why, and How of Mindfulness Meditation
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The What, Why, and How of Mindfulness Meditation

Life can get really tough sometimes. We feel like circus performers trying to juggle work, family, friends, hobbies, sleep, health, that thing someone asked you to do last week, and more. All at the same time.

It’s a lot to deal with, and most of it is stuff we can’t just … stop doing. So instead, we have to learn to cope with it. Mindfulness meditation can help.

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