Go Green or Go Home Pt. 3

FOOD

The average meal travels 1,200 miles from pasture to plate.
The closer your food comes from the less emissions and gas are required.

Go to Localharvest.com to find the nearest farmers market.

One acre of land can produce- 50,000 lbs of tomatoes, 40,000 lbs of potatoes, 30,000 lbs of carrots, or 250 lbs. of beef.

2,500 gallons of water are required to produce 1 lb. of beef and only 25 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 lb. of wheat.

Consider where your food comes while trying to consume less meat.

Even the Fredstrom is going to try to cut down on those burgers!

Go Green or Go Home Pt. 2

Check out these amazing recycling facts...

A ton of recycled paper saves:
17 trees
30 cubic yards of landfill space
7,000 gallons of water,
4,200 kilowatt hours of energy which is enough to heat a home for half a year,
390 gallons of oil
and prevents 60 lbs. Of air pollution.

If recycling rates increased from 30% to 60% we would save 315 million barrels of oil a year.

Recycling aluminum uses 95% less energy than making new aluminum

dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist…..cuts down on junk mail sent to you.

Visit lime.com and type in items that you want to discard. Did you know that those Crocs sandal shoes can be ground up and used for childrens' playground surfacing? Or the soles of running shoes for artificial grass filler? You type the item, they tell you what you can do with it!

ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART?