sustainability Archives - Youth Are Awesome https://youthareawesome.com/tag/sustainability/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:47:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 The Miracle of Honey https://youthareawesome.com/the-miracle-of-honey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-miracle-of-honey https://youthareawesome.com/the-miracle-of-honey/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:47:18 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=114280 Nature’s Liquid Gold Did you know honey can be stored for eternity? There’s so much more to honey than its sweet taste. Many institutions recognize honey for its amazing health benefits and versatility, from relieving sore throats to mending surgical wounds. This seemingly innocent food has taken the medical and dieting communities by storm. From […]

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]]> https://youthareawesome.com/the-miracle-of-honey/feed/ 0 Looking Good while Doing Bad: The fabrication of fast fashion https://youthareawesome.com/looking-good-while-doing-bad-the-fabrication-of-fast-fashion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-good-while-doing-bad-the-fabrication-of-fast-fashion Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:48:30 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=117074 Let’s be honest – cheap stuff is awesome. As long as it tastes/looks good, the lower the prices, the more our faces light up. In today’s world, companies like Shein and Temu are profiting off of this mindset insanely – but what’s the catch? Sure the quality may not be amazing, but we can’t spend […]

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]]> Making Ethical Choices with Your Wardrobe https://youthareawesome.com/making-ethical-choices-with-your-wardrobe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-ethical-choices-with-your-wardrobe Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:31:34 +0000 https://youthareawesome.com/?p=112850 With the recent rise of fast fashion trends, people have been buying more and more – leading to the mass production of clothing and various environmental impacts. This article will discuss how we can choose to be more ethical with our clothing choices – from what we buy to how much we wear.  First off, […]

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]]> Local Food—Future of Eating or Trendy Scam? https://youthareawesome.com/local-food-future-of-eating-or-trendy-scam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=local-food-future-of-eating-or-trendy-scam Mon, 01 Nov 2021 23:24:07 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=104591 I was inspired to write this blog after recently leading cooking projects that had a “Local Food” theme. Currently, local food is a controversial topic. Therefore, my goal with this blog is to shed light on the issue and provide as holistic of a perspective as possible, not state my opinion. Please note: Most of […]

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]]> Sea Farms: The Agriculture of the Future https://youthareawesome.com/sea-farms-agriculture-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sea-farms-agriculture-future Wed, 15 May 2019 05:11:08 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=97884 Once again, as I was browsing YouTube, this video was recommended to me: It reminded me of the bleak, and inevitable prospect of climate change. It was frightening, how drastically, yet easily this world could collapse and transform. This daunting fact was stated by the video I discovered, and it encompasses a grand sense of […]

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]]> Straws Suck… But Getting Rid Of Them Sucks Even More https://youthareawesome.com/straws-suck-independence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=straws-suck-independence Mon, 30 Jul 2018 04:04:42 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=92807 About a month ago, the Keg replaced their plastic straws with a plant-based straw in an effort to minimize plastic waste. A restaurant in Banff, Magpie and Stump, is following the #StrawsSuck campaign and serving all drink without straws. Even Starbucks has planned to eliminate all plastic straws from their stores by 2020. Vancouver and […]

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]]> Vegetarian Cities: A Step in the Right Direction? https://youthareawesome.com/vegetarian-cities-a-step-in-the-right-direction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vegetarian-cities-a-step-in-the-right-direction Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:00:54 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=82254 Late last month, the city of Turin, Italy, made waves when recently elected mayor Chiara Appendino, declared the city the first in Europe to take on a meat-reduction agenda. Appendino’s campaign strives to promote a vegetarian lifestyle in order to reduce the city’s environmental impact and improve the overall health of Turin’s citizens. However, as a […]

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]]> Zero Waste Lifestyle: The Latest & Growing Trend https://youthareawesome.com/zero-waste-lifestyle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zero-waste-lifestyle Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:04:53 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=80910 Imagine yourself cheerfully living your life without producing any garbage whatsoever, in your house and outside. Furthermore, imagine yourself creating your own homemade, chemical-free, hygienic and cleaning products, including makeup, shampoos, and toilet cleaners, with the comfort of knowing that you aren’t polluting the world.   The zero waste, or waste-free, lifestyle is defined by […]

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]]> IB students unite – UBC’s World Student Conference on Eco-nomics (“this is why I joined IB!”) https://youthareawesome.com/ibwsc_ubc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibwsc_ubc Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:33:30 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=42247 No, it’s not IB summer school (ohgoodnessno) – it’s a week-long stay at Beautiful (University of) British Columbia to meet fellow IB-ers and talk about sustainability! The IB World Student Conference is held at 4 campuses this year, and we’re lucky enough to have one in the province next door! The week is full of […]

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]]> Solar energy, DIY deodorant + sustainable food – it’s Green Youth Gathering 2013! https://youthareawesome.com/green-youth-gathering-2013/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=green-youth-gathering-2013 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:27:31 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=41447 Whether you’re a self-proclaimed tree-hugger or just looking to try something new – come down to Green Youth Gathering 2013! WHO: For Calgary youth, run by Youth Central’s TD Earth Ambassadors! Get inspired by youth social entrepreneurs from SimplySolar, get involved with the Nature Conservancy, and get dirty with the Calgary Horticultural Society (hurhurhur). WHAT: a beautiful […]

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]]> Photo of the Day: Looking under the sea https://youthareawesome.com/photo-day-sea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-day-sea Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:10:31 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=32011 I found this quite a powerful image – instead of being provided facts about pollution, we get to look under the ocean for ourselves and see what is actually masked under the waves.

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]]> Youth Poetry SLAM https://youthareawesome.com/youth-poetry-slam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=youth-poetry-slam Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:02:51 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=30897 On Saturday the 14th, the best youth poets in the city gathered to SLAM in the Sustainable Poetry Youth SLAM at the Public Library. The competition was the first of many poetry-related events hosted by the 2012 Spoken Word Festival in Calgary as part of Youth Week Calgary 2012. As the MC for the event, […]

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]]> The Conscious Consumer – Part II https://youthareawesome.com/conscious-consumer-part-ii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conscious-consumer-part-ii Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:00:57 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=21045   In Canada, consumers spend over $1.6 trillion each year on their purchases. In all of North America, we spend $26.4 trillion per year. That’s a pretty big economy! And to help you(th) navigate it, I’ve put together a short guide and set of resources. This is a three-part series featuring 7 areas of consumerism […]

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]]> A success for sustainable seafood https://youthareawesome.com/a-success-for-sustainable-seafood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-success-for-sustainable-seafood Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:01:13 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=20295 Recent news: on July 4, Canada Safeway has announced that by 2015, it plans to only sell sustainably-farmed seafood. I must confess that the news, when I first heard it, made me feel something like this: Safeway’s promise puts it in the company of many other major supermarket chains that have committed to selling nothing […]

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]]> Seven Billion People: Crunching the Numbers https://youthareawesome.com/seven-billion-people-crunching-the-numbers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seven-billion-people-crunching-the-numbers Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:14:20 +0000 https://www.youthareawesome.com/?p=18724 Believe it or not, you’re wrong if you say that Earth has six billion people. It’s about time you round up. The CIA has estimated that the population of the world will be 6,928,198,253 this coming July. Try reading that out loud, it’s quite shocking.  It’s just an issue that no one really pays attention […]

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