Earth Day 2025: 5 Healthy Shopping Moves + Bonus Dog Poses

Today's the day!

Time to Celebrate Earth Day AND National Beagle Day!

Beagles & Nature- 2 of my favs that bring me so much joy.

Here are 5 ways to tweak how you SHOP so you can make healthier choices for not only your Body & Home but also Animals and the Environment:

1. Shop Cruelty Free: Look for the BUNNY LABEL to find brands that don’t do testing on animals especially beagles & rabbits. Download the cruelty cutter app to make it easier to shop cruelty free. Check that all your skin care, cosmetics, and household cleaning products have the bunny on them.

2.  Shop with Certified B Corporations™: B Corps are for profit businesses that commit to balance both profit and purpose.  These brands meet legal standards to consider not only the needs of their customer and employees in their decision making but also the environment and larger global community. Check the labels of products you already buy from and see if they are one.

3. Chemical Free Home: keep chemicals, plastics and pesticides out of your home.

• Avoid Plastics by using refillable water bottles; BPA free plastic containers; Beeswax Wrap (vs Plastic Wrap); Cutting Boards made of bamboo, wood, or glass (vs Plastic); stainless steel or cast iron (vs non-stick) cookware; plant based sponges like bamboo or luffa (vs plastic sponges). 
• Avoid chemicals by using clean, green, cruelty free makeup, skin care and cleaning products.
• Avoid Pesticides by using natural alternatives in your garden to protect the bees: scatter chili pepper flakes, bits of oil or soap, tomato leaves, or garlic around your plants.

4. Clean Eating: 

• Eat organic to avoid harmful chemicals & hormones. Shop at your local farmer's market to save on organics and find more clean foods.
• Transition to a plant based diet as much as possible. Eating just one less burger a week is the equivalent of taking your car off the road for 320 miles. Approximately 1800-2500 gallons of water go into just one pound of beef. 
• Don't forget to learn how to compost your scraps. Litterless has a list of zero waste grocery stores in the US.

5. Donate: Find organizations that help the environment & find their brand partners (like seatrees.org has on their webpage or Climate Neutral and 1% For The Planet).  The brands you choose matter for not only you and your home but our planet.


OVER TO YOU:

What's ONE thing you can change about how you SHOP that'll help support your Body, Home & the Environment?

BONUS MOVES: 

In honor of National Beagle Day, add some Yoga "Dog" Poses to help you stretch and strengthen your core.

You can do all of these on a counter or wall if you don't have the shoulder range of motion to do them on the floor.

Warm up a little before you do them.

Listen to your Body & do the ones that you can do with good form and still breathe well.

You can either pick one move & do a few reps of it or do a few sets of the entire sequence. 

Now get outside & celebrate this beautiful Earth (& National Beagle) Day!

P.S. Every sale of our online Rest Camps support organizations that improve the health & welfare of animals including Beagles. One of our favs to support is Beagle Freedom Project. They rescue and rehome beagles & other animals who have been used for lab testing in the U.S. and abroad. They also work tirelessly to champion laws & legislation to ban the cruel practice of animal testing nationwide.

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