Studies have shown that organic produce contains 27% more antioxidants and 18% more polyphends; thus reducing cholesterol, improving blood circulation, and helping to prevent certain cancers.

Ever wonder what happens to some of the products you recycle?

The following are some of the uses of recycled goods:
-Old paper becomes egg cartons and grocery bags.
-Cans are melted for cookware, appliances, and bicycles.
-Plastics are turned into park benches, carpets and fleece jackets.

Instead of having to replace your disposable air filter several times a year, consider buying a permanent one that can be washed and reused indefinitely. Most of these filters have lifetime warranties, so you'll save money in the long run as well as reduce tha amount of waste you send to the landfill.

Limit the amount of time you let your vehicle's engine run in the garage, and keep the garage door open. An idling vehicle emits twenty times more pollution than one traveling thirty-two miles per hour. There are sixty-five million garage owners in the United States. If 10 percent of garage owners were to idle their cars for just five fewer minutes per day, the total savings would be 84.5 million gallons of gas a year, enough for a million people to drive an average size car across the country.

Did you know? 40 percent of the cotton allotted for each t-shirt is sent to landfills as factory waste. 

Even better than organic cotton is repurposed cotton, which consumes no raw materials and lightens the pressure on landfills. In2green cotton blankets and throws are woven with salvaged factory t-shirt clippings.

70 percent of the world's sports balls are produced in Pakistan, where 30 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

Fit your garden hose with an automatic shut-off nozzle in order to prevent waste when the water is turned on and the hose is not being used. You'll save up to 6.5 gallons per minute. If just 10 percent of US households attached shut-off nozzles to their hoses and the average reduction in hose usage was just thirty seconds per week, the water saved would fill over 128,000 bathtubs everyday.

As the government starts to pressure the public to think of corn as a new source for alternative fuel, you'll need some reference numbers when making up your decision whether you approve or not.

-An acre of corn can produce about 18 gallons of fuel in one year.
-An acre of palm oil can produce 700-800 gallons a year.
-One acre of algea growth can produce up to 20,000 gallons of fuel in a single year.

If you already have a lawn irrigation system, consider installing a rain sensor to override your automatic sprinkler cycle during and after rain events. Depending on the local climate, your water consumption (and your water bill) could drop up to 30% per year.

Set warm wash and cold rinse cycles, and save 90 percent over the energy used when machine washing in hot water only. Together, all US households could save the energy equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil a day by switching from hot-hot to warm-cold cycles.