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. Dimitri also suggests trying small brands that are transparent about where they source their ingredients. “Those brands can be a bit more expensive, but chocolate should be a special treat,” says Dimitri, an associate professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University.. If you’d rather recycle curbside, look for candies covered in aluminum foil and create a foil ball that’s about three inches in diameter before putting into the bin.
, about 81 percent of flowers sold in the United States are imported from South America, especially Colombia and Ecuador. Blooms like roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, and hydrangeas are then refrigerated and flown to the United States, then trucked to florists and grocery stores. That creates lots of carbon dioxide emissions.
But in-country flowers aren’t always better. Flowers in places with cold winters like the United States and Europe often grow in energy-intensive greenhouses. A 2007 study from found that roses grown in greenhouses in the Netherlands then sold in-country had over 15 times the carbon footprint of roses grown outdoors in Kenya.Show kids how to grow flowers in a toilet-paper roll or an egg carton instead of buying blooms from the store. The plants will take two to three days to sprout and be ready to transplant in about four weeks, making this valentine a gift that keeps on giving.
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