Yeah, Earth Day!
EVOS restaurants plan to shake things up Tuesday on Earth Day by offering free organic, low-fat milkshakes to their customers. Their milkshakes are made naturally with a simple key ingredient list of 2 percent certified organic milk, sugar, and added multi-vitamin. Headquartered in Tampa, EVOS serves fast-food staples such as burgers, fries, and milkshakes that contain 50 to 70 percent less fat than its competitors (mostly because of these cool "airbaking" ovens). In addition to their healthy focus (and organic whenever possible), EVOS restaurants also use green materials when designing and constructing its buildings. The company chooses environmentally-friendly products like Marmoleum, a composite that contains wood flour, linseed oil, rosin and jute fiber and has no toxic chemicals. The company also uses recycled wood panels, offsets a portion of their energy usage with renewable wind energy, and prints guest materials on recycled paper.
Home cooks can go green more easily with a new line of nonstick cookware avaible at HSN.com. Your old Teflon non-stick pan is releasing toxic gases into the environment and hazardous material into your food. The GreenPan (six-piece cookware set $99.90) is the first cookware product to utilize Thermolon non-stick coating which is PTFE/PFOA-free, and will perform at high temperatures without deterioration or releasing harmful fumes.


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