The Sustainability Blog

Laundry has a big impact on the environment. The Sustainimals are here with some tips on how to make your laundry more eco-friendly! Easy tips include washing in cold water, line drying clothes, switching to an eco-friendly, plastic-free detergent, and avoiding fabric softeners.

While Halloween is a ton of fun, it is also a huge generator of trash, particularly of the single use plastic variety. Here are some eco-friendly tips for costumes, candy, decorations, and pumpkin-usage to celebrate Halloween much more sustainably.

The Sustainimals are proud to join The Sierra Club, Scientific American, 350 Action, Environment America Action Fund, BlueGreen Alliance, The League of Conservation Voters, and the Natural Resources Defense Council in endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 US Presidential Election. If you are interested in ecofriendly stuffed animals, chances are you are worried about pollution, climate change, and leaving the world a better place for generations of people and animals to come. If that's you, the choice is clear - Vote Biden / Harris 2020!

Hi everyone! The first few weeks of having the Sustainimals.com website up and running have been pretty crazy! While we continue to ramp things up, we wanted to share with you our first of many posts where share sustainability tips. There are so many products we use every day that we don’t even realize we are using, because they are so ingrained in our daily routines. One of those items is…. toilet paper. According to Wikipedia, more than 7 BILLION rolls of toilet paper are sold every year in the United States alone; Americans use an average of 141 rolls...

At Sustainimals' HQ (ok, Julia's house), we (Julia) are always exploring new ways to cut back on our plastic consumption and cut down on our carbon footprint. Some of the tips on this blog will just be small reminders - things we all know to do but sometimes forget or get lazy. Some of the tips will be ways to get your kids excited about sustainability. And some of the tips will be about products that we have tried and like, and think you might like too! We will also share relevant news stories, and ways to get involved.