Did it ever strike you as strange how plastic bags proliferate at the farmers market where we go to shop for locally-grown, organic food? Somehow, it just doesn’t feel right putting food that’s supposed to be helping save the environment into a plastic bag that’s a prime source of everyday pollution. Some jurisdictions have had […]
Feeling pressure from a coalition of shareholders, McDonald’s has announced that it will examine the use of pesticides on the potatoes it purchases with an eye toward possibly reducing the use of noxious chemicals and making public information about the extent to which its potatoes are sprayed. Under an agreement with the shareholder group–the Bard […]
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Fifty-four million barrels of oil. That’s how much energy it took to quench Americans’ thirst for bottled water last year. That’s about 2,000 times the energy required to produce the same amount of tap water. And we haven’t even begun to calculate the cost of the plastic bottles discarded from approximately 200 billion (that’s b-i-l-l-i-o-n) […]
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