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April Challenges: Your Consumer Footprint
The Top Four Challenges to try this month:
Buy Products Produced Locally
The average meal travels 1,200 miles by truck, ship, and/or plane to reach your dining room table.
Buy Organic Food
Organic food contains, on average, 30% more magnesium, 27% more vitamin C, and 21% more iron than conventional, pesticide-grown food.Read more >>
Reduce Meat Consumption
It turns out that the average American does more to reduce global warming emissions by going vegetarian than by switching to a Prius.Read more >>
Reduce
California sends 40 million tons of garbage annually to landfills.Read more >>
Additional Challenges to try:
Reuse
From 1950 to 2000, Americans consumed as much food and material goods as all the generations of Americans before them.Read more >>
Recycle
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, Americans will buy, use and throw away 1,245 tons of raw materials.Read more >>
Compost
Over two-thirds of the total waste produced in the United States is compostable, yet we still send 30 million tons of leaves and grass clippings to landfills every year.
Buy Less
The typical American creates 4.6 pounds of garbage per day, or 1,700 pounds of garbage per year--that's double what it was thirty years ago. Read more >>
How Did the Peninsula Community Do With the April Challenges?
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