Growing a garden gives you tasty, eco-friendly food
If you make space for a garden in your yard, the environment will thank you. A garden provides space where native plants can attract bees—and considering about 35 percent of crops rely on pollinators like bees to help them thrive, helping bees thrive is a big environmental concern—and where you can grow your own produce. Anything that only needs to travel as far as your backyard to your table is using fewer fossil fuels than anything that had to go from a mass-production farm to a supermarket (and then your table). And if those tasty, fresh veggies weren’t enough of a pull, gardening itself torches about 200 to 400 calories an hour.
Saying “no” to straws could make you look better
Scientists estimate that there are 8.3 billion plastic straws strewn around coastlines worldwide. Plenty of companies are catching on and going straw-free or using paper straws, but there’s an anti-aging reason for skipping straws altogether: Some experts say drinking from a little tube could give you wrinkles when you purse your lips and make you bloat by sucking in air before the liquid reaches your mouth. Next, learn what not to pour down the drain.