YAKIMA, Wash. — Organic sounds good. Good for your health, good for the environment. But ouch, the price tag really hurts.
A recent check at a Yakima supermarket found a half gallon of organic milk goes for $3.29 compared to $1.69 for regular.
But consumers who care about global warming and pollution are increasingly weighing the costs and benefits of so-called "green" products and practices versus their conventional counterparts.
Sometimes the tradeoff makes dollars and cents. Compact fluorescent light bulbs cost more upfront than incandescent — about $2.50 versus 50 cents — but they are three or four times as efficient because they last longer.
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