The Better Home Team

Harvesting rainwater is a great way of lessening your carbon footprint and becoming self-sufficient in your water needs. Harvested water can tide you through dry periods and can be used for a variety of household needs.

The Plastic-Free July 2020 challenge is less than a week away. While the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown our lives out of gear, it is possible for us to refuse single-use plastic and take a step closer to zero-waste living.

When electronic devices or electrical appliances break down, people often choose to toss out the old unit and buy a new replacement because it seems cheaper and less of a hassle. The responsible, eco-friendly option is to fix them.

Asking questions like who owns water or pointing facts about how many times plastic can be recycled, these books introduce your little ones to concepts like conservation, coexistence, waste reduction and child rights, among others!

Gulmeher began operating as a social enterprise with a group of 30 women, mostly waste-pickers, mobilised from the Ghazipur slum. So far, the women have recycled 7,000 kilograms of paper and kept 15 tonnes of discarded flowers out of the landfill.

If you are on the lookout for healthy, vegan alternatives to honey, you’ll be glad to know there’s a gamut of plant-based sweeteners out there.

Whitewater is on a mission to explain why organic textile isn’t just a bunch of bosh. It’s something that more parents, and others, should educate themselves about.

Any party of the world’s greatest superfoods nowadays - especially in the West - features some regulars: Quinoa, Açaí Berries, Chia and Salmon. Oh, and Kale.

The t-shirts use low-impact, vegetable-based dyes that produce fewer, and less damaging effluents than those used in chemical dyes. They’re also packed in recycled post-consumer plastic bottles that can be reused as planters.

In 2015, the two decided to take matters into their own hands and find a solution to the problem of sanitary waste.