You may think that organic fruits and vegetables don’t need to be cleaned and inspected like conventionally grown produce, since they aren’t covered in pesticides. However, you should always carefully clean and inspect all fruits and vegetables since there is a good chance other things besides pesticides and chemicals are lurking on their surface. Although
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Eat chilled fruit to keep cool. If you’re looking for green ways to keep cool this summer, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve gathered a variety of eco-friendly tips that either don’t use an air conditioner or help you use your air conditioner more efficiently. So, to keep you and the planet healthy A green lunch is a mid-day meal made at home that creates less trash or no trash at all. Whenever you make a green lunch, you save money, preserve natural resources and keep trash out of landfills. Prepackaged lunches for kids can cost about $4.02 a day compared to $2.65 a day for a waste free lunch—a savings of about $250 per year. Adults Many fruits and vegetables are grown with pesticides to get rid of bugs. Although nobody wants to find a creepy crawly thing in a peach or tomato, according to the Environmental Working Group, even small doses of pesticides can adversely affect your health and are worrisome, not well understood, and in some cases are completely unstudied. Fortunately, you can drastically reduce your Thanksgiving is a great time to practice the art of wasting less and saving money. The steps you take before and after your holiday party can help keep the planet healthy and your pocketbook and body in good form. Good Green Habits for Thanksgiving You can create less waste, save energy and oftentimes save money with these eco-friendly steps: Care for a little plastic with your leftover pasta? Probably not, but you may be getting it. Foods placed in plastic wrap or plastic containers―and then heated in a microwave oven―can end up containing harmful chemicals leached from plastics. Many of the chemicals in plastic have been classified as toxic and unsafe for consumption. And, plastic containers labeled |
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