Ruchira Shah was just your average young woman with a severe addiction to cute purses and high-end kitchen tools she never used, when one fine day, she decided to quit buying anything new. For a year. After twelve months of personal environmental experiments, Ruchi felt like she wanted to make a larger positive impact, so she decided to back to school, and is currently pursuing a masters degree at...
Won't You Light My (Carbon-Neutral) Candle?
Many of you might be participating in the Earth Hour festitivities this Saturday, and are thus, planning a nice dinner by candlelight.
Candles are romantic and fun, and personally, I adore having a nice candlelit dinner with some good friends, good food, and good wine.
However, most candles are also made of paraffin. And as such they can also be polluting. In fact, candles might produce 10 times the carbon emissions of a lightbulb.
So this Earth Hour, pick a carbon neutral candle such as beeswax or soy for your candlelight dinner. And enjoy!
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Ayo Maat 05pm March 30 Good idea. I missed it. I need light to see. I did not have any soy candles and as a vegan I don't use beewswax. I only have the tea candles...
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