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Just when you were wondering, "How on earth (no pun intended) do I keep up with all the dos and don'ts that it takes to be a good steward of this planet?" comes a few nice pocket guides that you can print out and take with you (all .pdfs):

1) Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Fruit - From Foodnews.org, this handy-dandy guide reminds you which fruit needs washing and which ones don't. Better yet, which fruits should be organic to avoid pesticides altogether. #1 worst fruit for pesticides? The beloved Peach! argh....

2) PlasticPicks - From #1 to #7, learn which ones to avoid and which ones to recycle.

3) Top Five Synthetic Chemicals to Avoid - Parabens, Phthalates, Triclosan, Petrochemicals, & Coal Tar. Yuck! Read about where these chemicals appear in our daily diet of purchases, from hair dye to antibacterial agents, some causing cancer...Yuck!

4) Pocket Seafood Selector - From Best to OK to Worst Choices, learn which fish are filled with mercury, which are over fished, and which fish are farmed in environmentally harmful ways. Also available at the Monterey Bay Aquarium website.

Impress your friends at dinner! Score that winning point with your date! Turn your mom into an environmentalist! Save the Planet!

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