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Cannabis + Earth Day = Love… Shop our Top Eco-Friendly Brands!

It’s no coincidence that Earth Day falls just two days after everyone’s favorite plant holiday, 4/20. But for those who don’t know, cultivating cannabis and protecting Mother Earth go more hand-in-hand than you may think.
To rejoice in your love for mother nature, and your love for cannabis-how can you celebrate Earth Day this year?

Keep reading to learn more about eco-natural cannabis brands right here in Cali, and how the cannabis industry celebrates Earth Day every day, with unique environmentally friendly benefits.

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What is Earth Day?

Every year on April 22nd, we commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day serves as a call to demonstrate support for environmental protection and climate action. It’s important to give TLC to the planet that keeps us alive so we can keep living on it!
Whether it’s sharing that super cute, yet informative GIF on your Insta story, attending a local trash pickup, or indulging in some cannabis, there are tons of ways to pitch in. One of the best ways to have a sustainable cannabis Earth Day is by choosing eco-friendly brands..

 

420 & Environmentally Friendly Cannabis Brands

Like any product booming with demand, sometimes its production can be wasteful and take a lot of energy. Luckily, we tree-huggers can shop brands that dedicate themselves to giving back to the environment. To do our part, Embarc is proud to carry a wide selection of eco-natural cannabis brands with a passion for the planet.

 

RAW GARDEN

Raw Garden is a Nor-Cal brand known for its elite concentrates that are extracted from premium plant material. The brand uses USDA organic agricultural standards to ensure environmentally clean and sustainable practices. Raw Garden only uses organic and natural fertilizers, pest control methods, and soil amendments on the farm. Not to mention, they use less than a gallon of water per plant, per day (almost five times less than the average in Cali). With over 850 live resin strains and new ones coming every week, we guarantee this Earth Day will be your most elevated yet with Raw Garden’s extracts.

PAPA & BARKLEY

Want to shop the industry’s premiere cannabis wellness brand? Look out for Papa & Barkley at Embarc. This brand backs up its passion for clean living with pure ingredients in its wide selection of CBD products. Their base oils are made by slow-cooking the plant at low temperatures and using only heat, water, and pressure to infuse the oil and maintain the plant’s integrity. Papa & Barkley also goes to great lengths to ensure that their product’s supporting ingredients, like MCT oil, beeswax, and coconut oil, are made using only organic principles and no residual chemicals.

GLASSHOUSE FARMS

What better brand to shop on Earth Day than the recipient of Cannabis and Tech Today’s Sustainability Award? Glass House Farms, a top-selling brand in Cali, cools their greenhouses with wind instead of AC. The Golden State provides the greenhouses with sunlight 330 days of the year, so there is no need for artificial lights. On top of their natural light and cooling sources, the cultivation operation also utilizes a water recapture system. This system collects all the leftover water the plants don’t soak up, cleans, and recycles it to avoid waste, then filters it for pathogen removal. Puff, puff, pass the most environmentally friendly way you can this Earth Day by shopping at Glass House Farms now.

POTLI

Every stoner’s Earth Day activity should consist of trying all of Potli’s edibles full of sustainable ingredients. They meticulously source small-batch infused ingredients like honey, sriracha, olive oil, and chili oil to make cannabis cooking more eco-friendly and accessible. Potli also supports sustainability through partnering locally with artisanal family farms in Northern California.

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How Cannabis Supports Mother Earth

Outside of individual eco-friendly brands… hemp and cannabis plants themselves have their own unique benefits for mother earth and for reversing climate change.

 

1. HEMP PROVIDES ALTERNATIVE GOODS THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE.

Whether you need textiles, paper, food, fuel, or even housing, hemp has got you covered. There are so many uses for hemp, that it has the potential to change how everyday items are produced and consumed forever. Plus, it’s easy to grow, freshly legal, and zero-waste. Hemp seeds can be a snack or a key ingredient in wellness products. The plant’s stalks can be converted into hempcrete, a building material used to make eco-friendly houses. We don’t know about you, but our Earth Day might consist of converting to hemp-made everything.

2. OUTDOOR CANNABIS GROWING CAN HELP REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE.

It’s no secret that climate change is an issue worth addressing. If taking action via environmental protests or confrontational tweets isn’t your thing, just grow some weed instead. There are ways to mindfully cultivate cannabis that can actually help the planet. Some farmers use a carbon sequestration model for growing to show Mother Earth lots of love. Carbon sequestration occurs naturally with trees and other plants, but intentionally using cannabis as a tool in this process could be a game-changer. Plus, cannabis plants capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, helping mitigate global warming and climate change consequences.

3. LEGAL GROWS HELP SAVE ENERGY AND WATER.

As weed becomes legal and more widely used in many places, so does cannabis quality and an industry focus on environmental protection. Illegal growth can cause major environmental damage since the operators aren’t subject to legal requirements that protect the environment. As we support the legal cannabis industry, we can have hope for a reduction in weed’s carbon footprint, especially as illicit grows decline.

4. HEMP CAN REVIVE DAMAGED SOIL.

SThe plant can replenish the soil’s nutrients through a process called bioremediation. By cleaning up environmental pollutants and toxins, hemp can even help reverse previous damage. With the power to remove metals, solvents, pesticides, and other hazardous materials, it’s been referred to as a “miracle crop”.

5. HEMP CAN PREVENT UNTIMELY DEFORESTATION.

It’s sad to see our planet’s beautiful forests being traded for paper products and building materials. The creation of these products, while sometimes necessary for people, causes irreplaceable harm to the Earth’s tree population. Hemp grows much faster than trees, so it takes far less hemp to produce the same amount of goods. This makes the plant an ideal raw alternative for both paper and wood.

Now that you’ve become an expert on all the secrets for cultivating a sustainable, Mother Earth-loving cannabis lifestyle, this Earth Day will be the best one yet! Whether you’re
celebrating with one of these featured brands or taking charge as your neighborhood’s recycling queen, no act is too small to thank our amazing planet.

 

Shop Embarc for cannabis Earth Day supplies and support the plant you and our planet adore!