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Flowers
5 ways to Green Your Flowers
Wake up and smell the fair trade, organically grown, or local roses. The number one way to green your next flower purchase is to buy fair trade or organic varieties. These flowers are grown without the use of chemical pesticides, which not only decreases pollution in our air, water, and soil, but also protect the health of flower farmers, who are not subjected to health-threatening chemicals or other hazards at work. Local flowers grown without chemicals take it up a notch, cutting out the polluting and climate change-inducing transportation required to truck flowers from far-flung locales to your home.
Choose organic and fair trade flowers
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Flowers that are certified as fair trade and organically grown protect the health of flower farmers, and the earth's soil, water, and air, from dangerous chemicals and pesticides.
Choose local flowers
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These eco-friendly blossoms will travel a shorter distance from farm to table, minimizing the CO2 emissions and air pollution associated with long-haul truck transport.
Give a houseplant as a gift
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Try something new the next time you're considering buying flowers. Potted flowering plants last longer, freshen indoor air, and can be grown organically.
Find eco-friendly flower vases
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Make your flowers stand out with unique, earth-friendly vase options.
Pick home-grown heirloom flowers
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Forget buying cut flowers—grow your own! By choosing heirloom varieties, you'll be preserving valuable plant species, too.
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12:34pm
You should be insulted you and have ruined my plan
5:25pm
The trick to keeping your cut flowers lasting longer and in doing so saving money, is to every day cut a small amount off the stems and change the water. You might need to change the size, shape of the vase once the stems get very short.
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