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When applying pesticides the wind can carry these harmful chemicals as far as 14.5 miles allowing them to settle in your pool, on your lawn furniture, or on your children's toys.  Upon settling these pesticides can then be easily tracked inside your home by both people, and pets.  Once inside your home these chemicals can be absorbed through your skin, or inhaled leading to such adverse effects as birth defects in children, allergies, and even a decreased sperm count.

Duane Sellmer, Employee, Farm Operation Manager, Anheuser-Busch, talks about the company's efforts to reduce the amount of water used in their facilities. Sincehigh-quality water is a main ingredient in beer, Anheuser-Busch makes water conservation a high priority. In the past 5 yearsU.S. brewery water usage has declined nearly 5%, saving over 3.5 billion liters of water.

Jeff Lopez, Recycling Dock Operator, Anheuser-Busch, talks about the company's recycling program. Recycling has been an Anheuser-Busch priority since the 1890s when the company would reuse grain left over from brewing to feed its livestock.

Walt Lehman, Utilities Engineering, Anheuser-Busch, discusses the company's use of renewable energy and its goal of being energy efficient. In the past 30 years Anheuser-Busch has cut the amount of energy it uses to brew a six-pack of beer in half and 8% of their current energy is from renewable resources.

Save the environment, just don't be a dork about it.

The corporate braumeisters of Anheuser-Busch have let genetically engineered rice contaminate their Budweiser beer, independent laboratory testing has revealed. Tests show rice used in Anheuser-Busch's east coast US breweries is contaminated with genetically engineered rice varieties outlawed in most of the world.

While bumming around Fort Collins, Colorado, LiveGreen had the chance to meet with New Belgium Brewery's Sustainability Specialist Nicolas Theisen for a tour. New Belgium is not your average brewery. Along with making beer, the creators of Fat Tire are pushing the envelope of sustainable business development while incubating a culture of eccentric genius.

GO's master podcaster Max Lindberg talks to John Lane, a member of PETH: People for the Ethical Treatment of Hops. The organization's mission: stop the massacre of these uniquely sensitive plants.

Adnams brewery, based in Suffolk in the UK, have opened a new energy efficient brewery, a new eco-friendly distribution centre and reduced the amount of glass in their bottles to create eco-friendly ale.