A rose is a rose is a huge carbon footprint
Planning to buy flowers today in the name of St. Valentine? Choose a still-growing houseplant or herb instead—not only will it last longer and add some air-purifying life to your loved one’s pad, but it’ll reduce your chances of bringing home a bunch of chemically grown cut blooms that have already traveled the globe. And whatever you do, avoid roses: they may have been grown using questionable business practices before being wrapped in all kinds of packaging and imported from a faraway place like Columbia or Ecuador or Ethiopia. Consider it your Valentine to the planet.
[via Mental_Floss]
