diff --git a/lib/utils.js b/lib/utils.js
index 2495b06..2ee3a31 100644
--- a/lib/utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils.js
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ const productionPrivateDir = () => {
   return fs.realpathSync(meteorRoot + '/../');
 };
 
-const privateDir = process.env.BUNDLE_PATH || process.env.APP_DIR || productionPrivateDir();
+const privateDir = process.env.BUNDLE_PATH || productionPrivateDir();
 
 let ROOT = privateDir && path.join(privateDir, 'programs', 'server', 'assets', 'app');
 
@@ -147,13 +147,20 @@ Utils = {
 
   // Take a path to a SCSS file and compiles it to CSS with `node-sass`.
   toCSS: function(scss) {
-    if (!Package['chrisbutler:node-sass']) {
+    let sass;
+    let meteorMinorVersionPosition = 1;
+    let minorVersion = Meteor.release.split('.')[meteorMinorVersionPosition];
+    // since meteor 1.3 we no longer need meteor hacks just use the npm version
+    if (minorVersion >= 3){
+      sass = require('node-sass');
+    } else if (!Package['chrisbutler:node-sass']) {
+      sass = Package['chrisbutler:node-sass'].sass;
+    } else {
       Utils.Logger.warn('Sass support is opt-in since lookback:emails@0.5.0. Please add chrisbutler:node-sass from Atmosphere and try again.', TAG);
       return Utils.readFile(scss);
     }
 
     const file = path.join(ROOT, scss);
-    const sass = Package['chrisbutler:node-sass'].sass;
 
     try {
       return sass.renderSync({
diff --git a/package.js b/package.js
index 2b40cd0..0f08e97 100644
--- a/package.js
+++ b/package.js
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ var where = 'server';
 Package.describe({
   name: 'lookback:emails',
   summary: 'Send HTML emails with server side Blaze templates. Preview and debug in the browser.',
-  version: '0.7.4',
+  version: '0.7.5',
   git: 'https://github.com/lookback/meteor-emails.git'
 });
 
 Npm.depends({
-  'html-to-text': '1.3.0'
+  'html-to-text': '1.3.0',
+  'node-sass': '3.8.0'
 });
 
 Package.onUse(function(api) {