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Greenlaurel: Try Local Cut Flowers and Avoid Those Jetsetter Blooms

These days, two dozen roses may only set you back $30. Yet, behind these cheap blooms is a $60 billion global cut-flower industry with a story that’s not quite as rosy. The modern flower industry is known for a voluminous carbon footprint, thorny labor issues and prickly land, pesticide and water practices. The next time […]

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