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Is it worth it to buy environmentally-friendly feminine hygiene products?

If you flip through magazines or social media today, you might come across advertisements for environmentally-friendly feminine hygiene products. We wondered if they were worth the investment.

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Nuts for sustainability

Tree nuts like almonds, walnuts, and pistachios have taken off as a nutrient-dense snack. But all that snacking comes at a price — tree nuts are notorious for requiring a lot of water to grow. In this episode, we’ll unpack whether all that water usage makes a difference.

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Why don’t emissions numbers add up?

A couple of weeks ago, we did a show on how many greenhouse gas emissions are created by the fashion industry and that got us wondering which industries create the most emissions, but we quickly hit a problem- the numbers just don’t add up. Stephen Porder, our co-founder and the Assistant Provost of Sustainability at Brown University, joins the show to explain what’s going on.

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Possibly: What difference do straws make?

Why are so many people talking about banning straws right now, and how much of a difference does skipping the straw actually make?

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Is it better to drink from a can or a bottle?

Drink from a can! It takes fewer emissions to make an aluminum can and fewer emissions to deliver beer that comes in cans. Cans are also more likely to be recycled, it takes less energy to recycle them, and they’re safer to pick up if they’ve been thrown on the ground.

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Do we need to refrigerate our eggs?

Here in the US, most of us put our eggs in the refrigerator. But in many other countries, eggs can stay on the counter. So, could we save energy here in America and just stop refrigerating our eggs?

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