Every day is Earth Day here at Lifeway. Here are some ways that we celebrate green business practices and dedication to environmental sustainability every day.
Environment
Reasons to Love Lifeway Organic
Green bottles Here at Lifeway, we care about our carbon footprint just as much as we care about creating delicious probiotic products for you and your family. This is why we switched our Organic kefir bottles to a more environmentally-friendly packaging called green polyethylene, a material that is made of sugarcane, a renewable resource. This […]
Keeping it Green and Clean for Earth Day 2017!
Every day is Earth Day here at Lifeway. Here are some ways that we celebrate green business practices and dedication to environmental sustainability every day.
Why You Should Eat Those Ugly Fruits and Veggies
The average American throws away 36 pounds of food a month, according to the USDA. That’s enough to fill the 90,000-seat Rose Bowl stadium with foods – much of it perfectly good, nutritious stuff. So why do we toss it? Maybe that banana has a few too many bruises. Or that chunk of cheese has something […]
Keeping it Green on Earth Day
Today marks the 46th anniversary of Earth Day, the annual holiday celebrated worldwide that aims to draw attention to and demonstrate support for environmental protection. Originally celebrated on April 22, 1970 in the United States, it is now celebrated by people in more than 193 countries! Trees for the Earth As Earth Day approaches […]
#GlobalGoals: Ending Hunger
Imagine what you could accomplish in fifteen years – what you could learn, achieve, see, change and experience. Imagine the good you could do, and imagine the bad that could happen from not taking action when you should have. This weekend, the leaders of all of the 193 United Nations member countries will get together to […]
Keeping it Green in 2015
Green has always been one of our favorite colors (along with Lifeway blue and white, of course). We’re conscious of the environmental impact our business makes and continually assess our manufacturing practices to make sure we’re as clean and lean as we can be. We firmly believe that Lifeway Kefir is good for more than just […]
Going Green with Renewable Choice Energy
*This is an outdated post from 2014. Please see our latest sustainability efforts post here for an updated version. Since 2006 Lifeway Foods has procured 65,447 MWh of Green-e Certified RECs from Renewable Choice Energy/Schneider Electric. The avoided GHG emissions associated with this initiative is 28,312 MTCO2e. According to the EPA, this action is equivalent to the carbon […]
Word to Your Mother – Happy Earth Day from Lifeway Foods
Four months into the new year comes Earth Day – a great time to reflect on the healthy, green changes you may have made as part of your New Year’s resolution, and to find new ways to preserve our natural resources. Today we thought we would talk a little bit about the phrase “reduce, reuse, […]