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    The Canary Report

  • The nocebo effect, burn laws, and explosives detectors

    Susie Collins
    7 Nov 2009 | 2:40 am
    Canary’s Cry. Post by Linda Sepp. Don’t read this unless you want your blood to boil: The American Council on Science and Health reports on the Nocebo Effect: Think Sick and You’ll Be Sick. The Herald Bulletin reports that fall is a very busy time for burning leaves and that burn laws may vary. Ann Swartz, who lives in an unincorporated area near Chesterfield, Indiana, said open burning has caused health problems for her over several years. Swartz suffers from fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivity, she said, conditions that are worsened each time she is exposed to smoke…

  • Apples and oranges: Do I or don’t I get an H1N1 vaccine?

    Susie Collins
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:01 am
    Should people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity get the H1N1 vaccine? Post by Franny Armstrong. Adding insult to injury doesn’t make a lot of sense when you think of the turmoil in our already compromised bodies. MCS doesn’t leave much room for playing around with the assumption that the H1N1 vaccine is okay for us. It contains mercury, but not the BAD Mercury? Hello! Mercury is dangerous. No matter whether it looks like an apple or an orange, it’s a fruit, isn’t it? Specialists all over the world have their opinions about the situation. “THEY SAY” that it’s safe, then…

  • Environmental Health Association of Alberta launches new website

    Susie Collins
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:29 am
    New website focuses on learning to live a less toxic life style, how to live with environmental illnesses. Roberta Bradley, vice president at the Environmental Health Association of Alberta, reports on the launch of EHA-AB’s new website. What is the Environmental Health Association of Alberta (EHA-AB)? We are a non-profit environmental health organisation with an object to promote education and information on environmental sensitivities and environmentally induced illnesses. We provide resources and support to those persons or institutions affected or interested. We also strive to raise…

  • Mary and Keith launch their excellent adventure

    Susie Collins
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:33 pm
    The peripatetic nurse is on the road Post by Keith Carlson. Dear Readers, My wife and I are now on the road, making our way down the East Coast towards the warmer weather. Our travel blog, Mary’s and Keith’s Excellent Adventure, is becoming increasingly robust with photos, videos and tales from the road. Our new lifestyle poses many exciting challenges and novel experiences, one of which is health care. While we still have health insurance from my old job until November 30th, the next step will be securing (at least) minimal catastrophic coverage from that date forward, and then…

  • Fake Plastic Fish sings the praises of baking soda

    Susie Collins
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:42 am
    Beth Terry at the blog Fake Plastic Fish shares myriad uses for baking soda, including personal hygiene, cleaning, deodorizing and baking. Environmentalist Beth Terry (left) at Fake Plastic Fish reports about the many uses of baking soda. She put out a call on Facebook and Twitter for “unusual uses for baking soda,” and I chimed in with a couple of ideas. She was kind enough to give The Canary Report two shout outs in the post, adding my input about the use of baking soda for bathing for people who are chemically sensitive. It’s always a pleasure to see Multiple Chemical…
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    Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog

  • Baby’s Death from Pesticide Exposure Renews Call for Bug Bomb Ban

    Beyond Pesticides
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:19 am
    (Beyond Pesticides, November 6, 2009) A 10-month old boy died in Williamston, SC after his mother used several insecticide foggers, also known as “bug bombs” inside their home. Elizabeth Whitfield called 911 when her 10-month old son, Jacob Joesup Isiah Leah Whitfield, was having difficulty breathing. She and her older son Kenneth were also experiencing [...]

  • EPA Proposes New Pesticide Labeling to Control Spray Drift

    Beyond Pesticides
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:47 am
    (Beyond Pesticides, November 5, 2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rolled out proposed guidance for new pesticide labeling in an effort to reduce off-target spray and dust drift. According to EPA, the actions detailed in the draft Pesticide Registration (PR) Notice on Pesticide Drift Labeling, when implemented, are projected to help improve the [...]

  • Groups Ask Senate to Reject Nomination of Pesticide Lobbyist

    Beyond Pesticides
    3 Nov 2009 | 10:09 pm
    (Beyond Pesticides, November 4, 2009) Environmental and farm groups are asking the Senate to reject the Obama Administration pick for chief agriculture trade representative because of positions that he has taken in support of genetically modified organisms as a spokesman for the agrichemical industry, his attack of the European Union (EU) moratorium on genetically engineered [...]

  • Bee Die-Offs Linked to Pesticide Mixtures, Window of Exposure

    Beyond Pesticides
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:12 am
    (Beyond Pesticides, November 3, 2009) Research by scientists at the University of Florida (UF) links Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the widespread disappearance of honey bees that has killed off more than a third of commercial honey bees in the U.S., to larval exposure to a cocktail of frequently used pesticides. Led by UF Institute of [...]

  • Ireland Passes Policy to Become Genetically Modified Crop-Free

    Beyond Pesticides
    1 Nov 2009 | 9:03 pm
    (Beyond Pesticides, November 2, 2009) Ireland has passed a policy banning the cultivation of all genetically modified (GM) crops and introducing a voluntary GM-free label for food – including meat, poultry, eggs, fish, crustaceans, and dairy produce made without the use of GM animal feed as a way “[t]o optimize Ireland’s competitive advantage as a [...]
 
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  • House Democrats Introduce H1N1 Flu Emergency Sick-Leave Bill

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:49 pm
    On Nov. 3, U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Rep. Lynn Woolsey D-Calif., chair of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, announced emergency temporary legislation that will guarantee 5 paid sick days for a worker sent home or directed to stay home by their employer for a contagious illness, such as the H1N1 flu virus.

  • ASSE Announces Revised Workplace Fall Protection Standard

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:38 pm
    In an effort to provide the most current information on slip, trip and fall prevention, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently announced the approval of a newly revised American National Standards Institute (ANSI) /ASSE Z359.0-2009 “Definitions and Nomenclature Used for Fall Protection and Fall Arrest” voluntary consensus standard.

  • Workplace Gossip: A Weapon or a Gift?

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    Gossip in the workplace can offer clues to power and influence not found on a company’s organizational charts, according to new research from Indiana University.

  • Contractor Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud, Other Charges

    5 Nov 2009 | 7:39 am
    The owner of Master’s Touch Drywall pled guilty to felony theft of sales tax and workers’ compensation fraud, and agreed to pay more than $2.1 million in restitution to the state of Washington.

  • AIHA Comments on Hearing Protector Labeling

    5 Nov 2009 | 7:35 am
    The American Industrial Hygiene Association has released the comments it made to EPA about 40CFR211 Subpart B, Hearing Protector Labeling, a proposed rule published in the Aug. 5 Federal Register that would de-emphasize the single number rating given to hearing protection devices.
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    Enviroblog

  • Corn. Corn. And yes, more corn.

    5 Nov 2009 | 12:22 pm
    In case you missed the movie King Corn (if you did you should see it, and not just because EWG's Founding President Ken Cook is in it), take 2 minutes and 17 seconds to get the gist of our country's corn craziness. As you'll soon see, the stuff is everywhere. you. turn. Then look in the mirror. And if you want to know WHY, this might help.

  • NPR Uncovers Natural Gas's Dirty Secrets

    5 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    Drilling for natural gas is a dirty business, as Enviroblog readers know. Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group's Senior Counsel, has worked tirelessly to document the environmental depredations of a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. Earlier this week, National Public Radio correspondent John Burnett covered yet other possible health dangers of natural gas production. The Barnett Shale gas deposit in Northern Texas is now the site of some 1,300 gas compression stations, Burnett reported. Eleven compressors surround the town of Dish, population around 200. Burnett says that…

  • Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 3: Who's protecting you?

    4 Nov 2009 | 6:18 am
    The science may not yet be decided on the effects of cell phone radiation on human health, but recent research is unsettling enough that Environmental Working Group (and government safety agencies around the world) recommends reducing your exposure where you can. This blog series breaks down EWG's recent report on cell phone radiation - so far we've talked about the science of cell phone radiation and simple steps to limit your exposure. By now you may be wondering where the government is in all this - shouldn't they be making sure that products on the market are safe for everyone? Read on to…

  • Toxic chemicals and you: In search of 'safe'

    2 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    140,321,493 searches have been requested on EWG's Skin Deep cosmetics safety database since 2004 - and counting. That's a lot of searches, by a lot of people seeking safer personal care products. Seeking products that don't contain toxic chemicals that are increasingly linked to serious adverse heath effects. And Skin Deep isn't the only such tool. In September, our friends at The Ecology Center in Michigan released another great search tool, Healthy Stuff, based on tests on 5,000 consumer products. And it's popular, too. Then there's EWG's recent cell phone radiation database, our Shopper's…

  • Tips for safer (face) painting this Halloween... and beyond

    28 Oct 2009 | 8:43 am
    It's the Thursday before Halloween and my kids haven't quite decided what to be. Top runners at this point (it changes daily) are pretty standard: witch and princess. And no, I'm not sewing their costumes from scratch (far from it, actually: I'm midnight emailing friends whose kids have cool costumes to borrow). So when I read this week's report about lead in face paints, I was (for once!) glad to be behind. Now I can praise the beauty of plain faces under pointy hats and crowns BEFORE promising to paint them. What's wrong with face painting? Nothing - IF the paints are safe for our skin,…
 
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  • Regulatory T cells (Tregs) monitoring in environmental diseases.

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:47 pm
    Regulatory T cells (Tregs) monitoring in environmental diseases.Micovic V, Vojnikovic B, Bulog A, Coklo M, Malatestinic D, Mrakovcic-Sutic I.Coll Antropol. 2009 Sep;33(3):743-6.Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.The prevalence of environmental diseases is increasing worldwide and these diseases are an onerous burden both to the individual and to the public health. Urban air pollution is a grave problem in majority of metropolises, which contain high levels of traffic congestion generating great amounts of genotoxic substances. The…

  • 5-Hydroxytryptamine Receptor Stimulation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis.

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:33 pm
    5-Hydroxytryptamine Receptor Stimulation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis. Rasbach K, Funk JA, Jayavelu T, Green PT, Schnellmann RG. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2009 Oct 29. [Epub ahead of print] Medical University of South Carolina. Mitochondrial dysfunction is both a cause and target of reactive oxygen species during ischemia-reperfusion, drug and toxicant injury. Following injury renal proximal tubular cells (RPTC) recover mitochondrial function by increasing the expression of the master regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis, PGC-1alpha. The goal of this study was to determine whether…

  • Adjuvants and autoimmunity.

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
    Adjuvants and autoimmunity. Israeli E, Agmon-Levin N, Blank M, Shoenfeld Y. Lupus. 2009 Nov;18(13):1217-25. Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel. Some adjuvants may exert adverse effects upon injection or, on the other hand, may not trigger a full immunological reaction. The mechanisms underlying adjuvant adverse effects are under renewed scrutiny because of the enormous implications for vaccine development. In the search for new and safer adjuvants, several new adjuvants were developed by pharmaceutical companies utilizing new immunological and chemical…

  • Healthy and Sacred Spaces

    6 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am
    Healthy and Sacred SpacesPDF Version:      http://mcs-america.org/November2009pg15161718.pdf Online Version:  http://www.mcs-america.org/MCSAnewsNovember2009.htm#_Healthy_and_Sacred "Our desire to express our religious beliefs and carry out rituals defines us as a species. To come together in sacred spaces and share in the magic of the universe with others who share the same belief is how communities are built. But what if being in that nurturing space made you sick? What if there was something so toxic to you that you would become ill in that space and it became…

  • Research shows pesticide-free homes can be bug-free, too; 'Good housekeeping' is more effective than insecticides

    6 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am
    Research shows pesticide-free homes can be bug-free, too; 'Good housekeeping' is more effective than insecticides http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/pesticide-free-homes "When a building supervisor notified tenants in Brooklyn that one of the apartments had a bedbug infestation, Eddie Rosenthal feared that it was only a matter of time until they spread to his home. But it wasn't just the bugs that gave Rosenthal the creeps. So did the prospect of using pesticides. So Rosenthal decided to try a few tricks that might keep his home bug-free without spraying chemicals. He raised his…
 
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  • IARC confirms link between formaldehyde and leukemia

    Jennifer Sass
    4 Nov 2009 | 7:45 pm
    I won't bury the lead: last week the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the most prestigious international body for cancer assessment in the world, determined that sufficient evidence exists to link formaldehyde with leukemia, a cancer of the blood or bone marrow. The link with leukemia means that the overall impact of formaldehyde on human cancers is much greater than previously thought.   The recent history of formaldehyde provides important lessons on the current hurdles, both legal and political, that EPA faces in its efforts to protect the public, and…

  • Thumbs up for our new EPA on toxic chemicals and pesticides

    Jennifer Sass
    28 Oct 2009 | 8:23 am
     Under the leadership of the Obama Administration, and with Administrator Lisa Jackson at the helm of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) all sorts of good things have been happening to increase public transparency, scientific integrity, and health protections. Many of them, though, are being reported in trade press, beltway press, or not at all. Since I often write here about things that EPA should be doing, i'd like to balance the blog with this two-thumbs-up list of the good stuff: Atrazine: This month EPA committed to a new review of atrazine, a toxic herbicide…

  • Pet collars will no longer contain toxic pesticide carbaryl, effective 2010

    Jennifer Sass
    21 Oct 2009 | 12:03 pm
    Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the use of carbaryl, a highly toxic pesticide, in pet collars will be withdrawn!  In 2005  NRDC  filed a petition to cancel carbaryl. We asked that EPA cancel uses of carbaryl in pet flea collars because of the high exposures to children, and the availability of less toxic or non-toxic alternatives . In 2006 all pet products with carbaryl except collars were voluntarily cancelled by registrants. Wellmark International was the only hold-out, defending its collar registrations. In…

  • News from the bee hive: fall/winter preparations

    Jennifer Sass
    10 Sep 2009 | 11:52 am
    With the colder weather coming, beekeepers all over the country are getting their hives winter-ready. The experienced beekeepers are harvesting the honey as well, but new-bees like me (get it? newbies? lame, I know) won't be taking any honey this year. My hive will need their whole load, about 50-60 lbs, to feed themselves through the winter, with no leftovers for me. Pesticides are coming up a lot in the winterizing conversations. We need to make sure that our hive is as healthy and strong as possible going into winter, and that means keeping in check all the potential life-threatening…

  • Nano: the investor perspective from IEHN

    Jennifer Sass
    9 Sep 2009 | 1:36 pm
    My friend Rich Liroff runs an organization called Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) that encourages companies to reduce or eliminate toxic chemicals from their product lines. Smart. IEHN uses shareholder resolutions along with direct meetings with companies to encourage them to make the transition away from toxics. I provide the nano-science support for a lot of the IEHN work, and often find our meetings with large corporations to be a positive experience. After just tossing around a few choice phrases like "toxic tort" and "product liability" I find that the companies seem…
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  • A Broken Process on Burn Pits

    Liz Borkowski
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:31 pm
    Earlier today, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing on the use of burn pits for trash at military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan – a practice that may be exposing thousands of soldiers and civilians to carcinogens, respiratory irritants, and neurotoxins. A particularly large burn pit at the Balad Air Base in Iraq has been getting a lot of attention, but the use of burn pits seems to be widespread at these military bases. As DPC Chair Senator Byron Dorgan pointed out in his opening remarks, burn pits are the kind of thing you’d expect to see at a makeshift base, not at the…

  • Cool Lab Safety Training for Students

    Kas
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:34 am
    Beth Griffin was a Research Assistant at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University when she was splashed in the eye with fluids from a rhesus macaque.  She acquired a Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (B virus) infection and died 42 days after exposure.  She was 22 years old. Every day, high school and university students walk into science laboratories.  They may be students fulfilling a curriculum requirement, interns, or budding researchers.  Will they have received safety training unique to the potential biological, chemical, and physical hazards they may encounter in…

  • New Study Links PFOA and High Cholesterol Levels

    The Pump Handle
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:50 am
    By Dick Clapp Researchers at Boston University School of Public Health (full disclosure: colleagues of mine) this week reported an association between perfluoroalkyl compounds — including PFOA, which was used to make non-stick products — and increased cholesterol levels.  This study took advantage of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a large dataset representative of the U.S. population now routinely collected by the CDC National Center for Environmental Health. The researchers looked at the concentrations of several chemicals of emerging concern,…

  • Waiting for Solis’ OHS regulatory agenda

    Celeste Monforton
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:42 am
    Any day now, the leaders at DOL, MSHA and OSHA should be letting us know formally their plans for proposing and issuing worker health and safety protections.  This formal notification comes in the form of the Department’s semi-annual regulatory agenda, which pursuant to the Regulatory Flexibility Act, is supposed to be published in April and October.   Secretary Solis’ first reg agenda was issued (a little late) on May 11, and I’m sure her second agenda is almost ready to hit the streets. When the Labor Secretary’s first agenda suggested that MSHA didn’t…

  • Saving face on the ice

    Celeste Monforton
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:52 pm
    I admit it: I have a soft spot for hockey players.   It probably stems from my Michigan upbringing, including my family’s winter-time ritual of making an outdoor hockey rink, and the annual trek from Detroit to Nantias Sport Shop on Wyandotte Street in Windsor, Ontario to buy new hockey skates and gear for my male siblings.  Brothers Roger and Dave wore (Bobby Orr’s) Boston Bruin jerseys while brother Tony favored Chicago Blackhawks’ (Keith Magnuson’s) colors.* Last week’s KidsPost—a favorite WashPost section at my house—featured a…
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    I learned something today

  • real time, baby

    missmolly
    28 Oct 2009 | 7:59 pm
    My husband is right now talking to someone from craigslist trying to help the guy figure out what kind of car he has for sale. I'm betting it's hard to sell a generic 4-door car with instructions to 'cakk' for information.But onward to what I learned recently: A serious wind storm can still mess me up, but it mostly just makes me tired. I forgot which kind of submarine (it starts with a 't') takes 40 minutes to turn around, but in 70 degree water, 40 minutes is long enough to develop a serious case of hypothermia, so they take their man-overboard drills pretty seriously. From what I'm hearing…

  • things to see

    missmolly
    24 Oct 2009 | 9:15 pm
    Today I learned that I forgot to check my blog email long enough that my account got deactivated. It's back under control now, and I guess even if you mostly get spam, it's at least good to look at.Speaking of things to look at, here is a short video on how to launch an anvil 100 feet into the air.

  • pretty tired

    missmolly
    21 Oct 2009 | 6:09 pm
    Today I cleaned a new-to-us washing machine motor with hydrogen peroxide and a Q-tip. Yesterday I soaked new-to-a-friend seat belts in dilute vinegar, and the water turned all yellowish-brown. I am ready to not need to do these things.Also I learned that I tolerate the paint that used to be Glidden 2000, but I can't remember the new name now. It's something like Duralast Somethingmaster 9300 -- something that sounds like a battery-powered exercycle.

  • voodoo

    missmolly
    19 Oct 2009 | 9:08 pm
    Today I learned that the placebo effect is getting stronger. Also, something invisible and odorless on the used washing machine motor we put in our older washing machine gives me major heart palpitations. That would have been a great example of the nocebo effect, except that no one told me to expect that a barely-used, eight-year-old washing machine motor would kill me. Also, I didn't eat it.

  • generalizations and exceptions

    missmolly
    16 Oct 2009 | 11:41 pm
    I'm used to dire-looking circumstances turning into months or years of horror, so I'm pleased to report that today I learned that some EIs can, with a little help, pull themselves out of some fairly dire-looking circumstances in just a matter of days. This time it took a reasonably experienced EI and people with a very similar injury to provide support, but the situation turned around nicely, and we made a friend. And I will add that despite the fact that my very best friends in the world right now are almost exactly the same age as my parents, it's nice to have some friends your own age.
 
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    Living w/Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

  • Ham Sandwich On Pretzel Bread With An Organic Apple Slaw And Reduced Honey Dijon Mustard Sauce

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:35 pm
    I tried to think of a catchy name for the sandwich and this post, but nothing came to mind. I actually made this sandwich about two weeks ago, and even with all that time I still couldn't come up with anything clever....but this sandwich is AWESOME! The best that I've ever made. About a month ago I decided to start baking my own bread. The organic variety is too expensive and too much trouble to get in Madison. Around that same time I thought I would challenge myself by running a zero-waste kitchen, meaning nothing that goes into the kitchen gets thrown in the trash. There wasn't really a…

  • MCS: Is It The Thyroid's Fault?

    31 Oct 2009 | 3:37 pm
    Oh, you cheap bastards!!! Hey Walmart, is a little profit more important than people's health? (And their slogan is "Save money, live better"). You'll see the spurious nature of that catchphrase belowMy final opinion is going to be no, the thyroid is not entirely to blame for MCS, but thyroid performance (and what it needs to function properly) may be a big part of the story. Or at least it seems to be for me, this could be entirely different for someone else since there is such a great variation with multiple chemical sensitivity. I got it from working at an unventilated indoor construction…

  • Well, So Much For That Idea........

    26 Oct 2009 | 5:46 pm
    One of the things that is odd now that I have multiple chemical sensitivity is that I have never gotten a cold or the flu. Not once, in fact I've never been close to it, and that's really unusual since MCS generally seems to weaken everything. The multi-year absence of germ-based affliction is probably due to the fact that I have a highly restricted social life now (pretty much zero), and when I do go out I usually have a respirator on (which sure doesn't help the chances of expanding my social life). And when you have chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia on top of it, the times you do…

  • My, My, Pumpkin Pie

    15 Oct 2009 | 5:09 pm
    Here's a slice of the finished product. Obviously, I haven't had any formal training in food presentationActually, it's pumpkin bread, but I couldn't think of a good rhyme for that. I also forgot to start taking pictures until half way through the night, so before you think I'm a total screw up and forget I'm blogging to illustrate one man's attempt to find normalcy after contracting a life-altering condition that profoundly affects every aspect of one's life, let me tell you about why I'm writing this post.I started watching NBC's The Biggest Loser after my weight jumped to 250 since trying…

  • Chemicals Claim Another Victim: Kelly Osbourne

    7 Oct 2009 | 5:21 pm
    Photo and original story credit given to TMZThe surprise story of this season's Dancing With The Stars, Kelly Osbourne, suffered skin burns after applying Impulse Body Spray, which is the British version of Axe Body Spray. Both Impulse and Axe are made by the same company, Unilever. Unilever is like most big corporations nowadays, they do some flashy publicity-generating events every year so the general public thinks they're green and responsible, but you dig a little deeper and find out that the exact opposite is true. Besides, they make Axe body spray, which is viewed by the multiple…
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  • Mixed Media Eco Art & Project Fail

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:33 am
    Here is my latest eco art project video! It is in a much more primitive style, but only because the handmade paper I recycled from junk mail was realllllly hard to draw and paint on. To make the picture I used charcoal from the wood stove, poke berries, coffee grinds, nasturtium flowers, yellow dock leaves, magazine clippings & pine sap for a 'glue'. The project was already difficult because the paper could break easily if pushed on hard (and i get a lil' rough with my art)- but in the end the project was a total FAIL because i coated it with an oil and wax mixture! The oil turned the…

  • Rural Entertainment: Visiting The Wells Organic Farm

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:48 am
    Guess what Ya'll!? I got to go for an adventure about 5 miles down the road from my house to see the Wells Organic Farm in Big Sandy Mush. :) For me this is a huge deal because I have seizures and can't drive in a car hardly at all, and the road down Early's Mountain is one so windy they have those dreaded squiggly warning signs (like in Pee Wee's Big Adventure when he eventually drives off the cliff!) About 2 miles into it, I almost went back home because I thought I couldn't make the car ride (swooning nausea and approaching seizure)... in fact I wanted to be left on the side of the road to…

  • Organic Fall Garden

    4 Nov 2009 | 7:28 am
    This is the first time I have ever got to plant a fall/winter garden! I was not sure what to expect, but here is what I have learned so far...1. Animals preparing to not have food for winter may be extra tempted to venture into your garden! Something ate the tops off of all my kale and dug up my beets in just one night.2. Stuff doesn't grow with the gusto of spring and summer, it is a slower smaller process - but still well worth the time.3. Planting stuff at the end of August is probably best to get a head start on the growth.Here is a list of what seems to be growing well enough that I will…

  • Animal Tracking: Tiny Mystery and Co.

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:32 am
    I don't look like much of a tracker, but I like to pretend! That is me in the apple orchard this morning (eating an apple, giving dirty looks) - the mud up there was perfect for looking at animal tracks. The thing is, I found some that are familiar to me and some that are a total mystery... maybe ya'll can help me figure it out!? :)This first track above looks like a kitty cat paw, and was about that size. The cats that live here never seem to go up that way... but the tracks right next to there (seen below) may have been the who knows what that tempted them to go into the unknown.This print…

  • Growing On The Forest Floor

    2 Nov 2009 | 2:48 pm
    It's beautiful from far away, and just as breathtaking close up. I find myself looking at the 'bigger picture' in my emotional life quite often and attempting to overlook the details... while in my physical view I am over compensating by noticing every little detail growing around me, far more then the bigger grand view. I suppose if nature was a teacher, the lesson would be there is worth in everything we see-... it's a million trillion tiny details that build up to the picture at large and each bit of the ecology counts. Emotionally or physically.Striking patterns and colors, mushrooms and…
 
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  • Richmond and Chevron Choose Fork in the Road

    UH Staff
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:57 pm
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  • Richmond bans plastic foam food containers

    UH Staff
    22 Oct 2009 | 4:17 pm
    No more plastic foam food containers, Richmond says. Starting July 1, restaurants and vendors must switch from serving food and drinks in plastic foam containers to biodegradable or compostable ones made out of paper, plant-based plastics or components such as sugar cane that break down easily. Aluminum is allowed because it can be recycled. Richmond city leaders approved a ban on plastic foam containers Tuesday night and provided eight months for restaurants to use up any they have in stock before the law goes into effect. read more

  • Popsicle Project puts North Richmond safety in the spotlight

    UH Staff
    13 Oct 2009 | 3:51 pm
    For one day at least, Cynthia Barrone didn't have to worry too much about the children walking from school to a nearby community center. Several dozen students from Verde Elementary in North Richmond walked together on International Walk to School Day on Wednesday with parent volunteers, who helped the kids cross the street and hurried them away from the snow-cone vendor. But parents can't be there every day, and many community members such as Barrone, a volunteer coordinator at Verde, worry about children making their way alone through the streets of this often-dangerous unincorporated…

  • Mother Speaks Out on Insurance Giant CIGNA’s Denial of Healthcare to Cancer-Stricken Twin Daughters Twin

    Editor2
    7 Oct 2009 | 4:03 pm
    Stacie Ritter’s twin daughters were diagnosed with cancer at the age of four. Their insurance provider, CIGNA, denied them coverage even though they had been covered by the family’s former insurer. The incident marked just the latest chapter in the family’s ongoing troubles with the health insurance industry. A few years ago, the Ritters filed for bankruptcy due to their high medical expenses—even though they had health insurance at the time. Stacie Ritter joins us to tell her story. read more

  • Community cleans local waterfront: Effort invites West County natives to pick up bay’s trash

    Editor2
    7 Oct 2009 | 3:08 pm
    By Diana Reyes, staff writer Group effort — Bay Area volunteers work together to tidy up their environment Saturday at the California Coastal Cleanup in Shimada Friendship Park located at the southern end of the Marina Bay Parkway in Richmond. West County volunteers gave back to their community Saturday at the 25th annual California Coastal Cleanup held in Shimada Friendship Park located at the southern end of the Marina Bay Parkway in Richmond. Coordinated by the California Coastal Commission, the worldwide Coastal Cleanup has been taking place for more than 25 years. Also, the event was…
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  • A Broken Process on Burn Pits

    Liz Borkowski
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:31 pm
    Earlier today, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing on the use of burn pits for trash at military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan – a practice that may be exposing thousands of soldiers and civilians to carcinogens, respiratory irritants, and neurotoxins. A particularly large burn pit at the Balad Air Base in Iraq has been getting a lot of attention, but the use of burn pits seems to be widespread at these military bases. As DPC Chair Senator Byron Dorgan pointed out in his opening remarks, burn pits are the kind of thing you’d expect to see at a makeshift base, not at the…

  • New Study Links PFOA and High Cholesterol Levels

    The Pump Handle
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:50 am
    By Dick Clapp Researchers at Boston University School of Public Health (full disclosure: colleagues of mine) this week reported an association between perfluoroalkyl compounds — including PFOA, which was used to make non-stick products — and increased cholesterol levels.  This study took advantage of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a large dataset representative of the U.S. population now routinely collected by the CDC National Center for Environmental Health. The researchers looked at the concentrations of several chemicals of emerging concern,…

  • Linsey Marr on the Discovery Channel: Women, Particles and Marathons

    drschweitzer
    3 Nov 2009 | 7:59 am
    Linsey Marr, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is one of many bright spots in my short career at Virginia Tech. She recently completed a study with Matthew Ely of the Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine that was featured on the Discovery Channel. The study compared marathon performance in seven cities: Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Duluth, MN. The team found a significant relationship between lower performance and particulate pollution, but not between carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, or sulfur…

  • Cutting Emissions Could Transform Healthcare

    James Black
    2 Nov 2009 | 3:38 am
    The use of information technology in the NHS promises to make major cuts to the health service’s carbon footprint, at the same time transforming patient treatment. This year the NHS Sustainable Development Unit issued a report on carbon reduction within the health service. Along with sustainability think tank Forum for the Future, the SDU also published a strategy in September which outlined five key measures for cutting emissions. The use of information technology to reduce travel and enhance services was one such measure. A recent study of broadband communications in the NHS found that…

  • A Rant: Turn off the dripping taps

    Sagan
    1 Nov 2009 | 10:02 pm
    If there’s one thing that really gets under my skin- besides poor sentence structure/grammar/spelling- it is the number of dripping taps that I see all over the place. People don’t know how to turn off a tap. It must come down to that. Sometimes it feels as though I go to university just so that I’ll enter the bathroom and turn off all of the taps that are dripping little beads of water into the sink. Plunk… plunk… plunk… I don’t understand why it is so difficult for a person to give the taps a really firm twist to ensure that no water will be…
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    Enviroblog

  • Corn. Corn. And yes, more corn.

    5 Nov 2009 | 12:22 pm
    In case you missed the movie King Corn (if you did you should see it, and not just because EWG's Founding President Ken Cook is in it), take 2 minutes and 17 seconds to get the gist of our country's corn craziness. As you'll soon see, the stuff is everywhere. you. turn. Then look in the mirror. And if you want to know WHY, this might help.

  • NPR Uncovers Natural Gas's Dirty Secrets

    5 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    Drilling for natural gas is a dirty business, as Enviroblog readers know. Dusty Horwitt, Environmental Working Group's Senior Counsel, has worked tirelessly to document the environmental depredations of a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. Earlier this week, National Public Radio correspondent John Burnett covered yet other possible health dangers of natural gas production. The Barnett Shale gas deposit in Northern Texas is now the site of some 1,300 gas compression stations, Burnett reported. Eleven compressors surround the town of Dish, population around 200. Burnett says that…

  • Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 3: Who's protecting you?

    4 Nov 2009 | 6:18 am
    The science may not yet be decided on the effects of cell phone radiation on human health, but recent research is unsettling enough that Environmental Working Group (and government safety agencies around the world) recommends reducing your exposure where you can. This blog series breaks down EWG's recent report on cell phone radiation - so far we've talked about the science of cell phone radiation and simple steps to limit your exposure. By now you may be wondering where the government is in all this - shouldn't they be making sure that products on the market are safe for everyone? Read on to…

  • Toxic chemicals and you: In search of 'safe'

    2 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    140,321,493 searches have been requested on EWG's Skin Deep cosmetics safety database since 2004 - and counting. That's a lot of searches, by a lot of people seeking safer personal care products. Seeking products that don't contain toxic chemicals that are increasingly linked to serious adverse heath effects. And Skin Deep isn't the only such tool. In September, our friends at The Ecology Center in Michigan released another great search tool, Healthy Stuff, based on tests on 5,000 consumer products. And it's popular, too. Then there's EWG's recent cell phone radiation database, our Shopper's…

  • Tips for safer (face) painting this Halloween... and beyond

    28 Oct 2009 | 8:43 am
    It's the Thursday before Halloween and my kids haven't quite decided what to be. Top runners at this point (it changes daily) are pretty standard: witch and princess. And no, I'm not sewing their costumes from scratch (far from it, actually: I'm midnight emailing friends whose kids have cool costumes to borrow). So when I read this week's report about lead in face paints, I was (for once!) glad to be behind. Now I can praise the beauty of plain faces under pointy hats and crowns BEFORE promising to paint them. What's wrong with face painting? Nothing - IF the paints are safe for our skin,…
 
 
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    The Soft Landing Blog

  • BPA-free Sippy Cup Guide

    Alicia
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:20 am
    2009 brought an amazing number of new BPA-free products to the market, so we’ve updated our BPA-free Sippy Cup Guide. You can find the complete list with background info on bisphenol-a on Squidoo (you can easily print the page for shopping trips on the go).  Be sure to let us know if we missed any of your favorite BPA-free sippy cups and we’ll add them!

  • Twitter Tuesday Giveaway: Kids Konserve Stainless Steel Round Container

    Alicia
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:29 am
    Folks are ditching plastic containers by the droves and stainless steel has become the trusty standby.  Kids Konserve was at the forefront, providing common sense products before the shift even began.  So today we’ll be giving away one of their most versatile products – the round stainless steel container with BPA-free lid. Our Favorite Features Its perfect 8oz size can handle many different kinds of food: tuna, pasta, chicken salads, veggies, pretzels, grapes, strawberries, yogurt, applesauce, crackers and more! Heavy duty non-toxic plastic lids keep food fresh and…

  • Skip the Chemicals this Christmas and Save Some Dough Too

    Alicia
    29 Oct 2009 | 8:01 am
    We love Christmas and we’re celebrating in big style this year!  We called a family meeting and hatched a plan to offer you 8 weeks of healthy Christmas savings with a little added bonus – FREE Shipping Fridays throughout November and December!  You’ll find a unique code on the homepage of our store each Friday morning. We’re offering a HUGE 30% discount on various styles of eating  gear, toys and gift certificates.  Each weekly code is valid from Monday through Wednesday.  Download the whole schedule now to plan for your shopping needs! Just click on the image…

  • Twitter Tuesday Giveaway: RiNGLEY Natural Ball Teether

    Alicia
    27 Oct 2009 | 8:43 am
    Organic cotton + Canadian Maple wood = a truly chemical-free teether by RiNGLEY!  The original RiNGLEY teethers have been such a hit with babies, that the company  recently introduced two new designs to their teething arsenal: the Ball and the Junior.  Both boast a new velcro features which allows you to remove the cloth and throw it in the washer without the wood teether! Our Favorite Features RiNGLEY’s Newest innovation allows you to un-velcro the cloth and throw it in the washer Shape allows your child to easily grip the ring and cloth Can be used wet or dry and easily reaches…

  • Is it Safe to Wash Plastic Bottles and Dishes in the Dishwasher?

    Alicia
    23 Oct 2009 | 9:52 am
    Have you ever wondered if it’s okay to wash plastic food containers in the dishwasher, even if they are BPA-free?  That’s a great question that requires a two-part answer, because not all plastic containers the same . . . Most Reusable Bottles and Dishes are Dishwasher Safe Many plastic containers are specifically intended for reuse and are usually clearly marked.  The dishes in this category come from two main categories: Heavy duty everyday reusables (dishware, utensils, baby bottles, sippy cups, etc.) are dishwasher safe and will withstand heat and detergents for many years.
 
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    Carbon Footprints

  • Carbon Market Expo 2009 at the Gold Coast

    Dave Sag
    27 Oct 2009 | 2:34 pm
    Simon from Carbon Planet at the Carbon Markets Expo Stand at the Gold Coast It’s Carbon Markets Expo time again at the Gold Coast and, as usual, Carbon Planet is there. I’m speaking today on the role of the Voluntary Carbon Markets if you happen to be passing the Gold Coast’s Convention Centre. The Expo is a global event that tours the world bringing carbon market participants together to exchange knowledge, do deals and share insights into how we all might work better, smarter, and faster to help solve the market failure that is the direct driver of global warming.

  • Turning Copenhagen into Hopenhagen

    Dave Sag
    20 Oct 2009 | 10:31 pm
    With less than 7 weeks now to go until COP15 climate change talks start in Copenhagen, the Hopenhagen project is gaining momentum. When you go to the Hopenhagen website and sign their petition, you get to add a message of hope to the system. As you watch the map, the various messages pop up all over the planet, showing both the diversity of people’s hopes and also the consistency of the message. Hopenhagen is a movement, a moment and a chance at a new beginning. The hope that in Copenhagen this December – during the United Nations Climate Change Conference – we can build a better…

  • Dealing with climate change means dealing with poverty

    Dave Sag
    7 Oct 2009 | 8:55 am
    One of Australia’s most brilliant economists, Professor Ross Garnaut, answers questions after a speech on the economics of climate change at ANU last year. I recently had the opportunity to write a couple of guest posts for the Brisbane based Courier Mail’s Green Blog. (See Part 1 and Part 2). Some of the comments below those posts are quite astounding and, true to form with many many other sites, it’s easy to spot the climate sceptics by their grammar, their spelling and their ability to express their thoughts in writing. Alas, as a barometer of climate scepticism, written…

  • Tck, tck, tck – Copenhagen draws near

    Dave Sag
    1 Oct 2009 | 9:07 pm
    Beds are Burning, The classic Midnight Oil protest song about Aboriginal Land Rights has been adapted by some of the most famous faces in contemporary pop music to become a stirring call for action in the lead up to COP15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December. The lyrics have not ben changed much and so much of the original sentiment is wonderfully recontextualised. ‘The time has come, a fact’s a fact.’ Yes indeed. — DSviagra patent levitra Viva Viagra viagra anxiety taking viagra woman Viagra By Post cheap gerneric viagra generic viagra levitra and cialis pills?

  • US$10 Million Prize to Build a Better Bulb

    Dave Sag
    25 Sep 2009 | 2:19 pm
    The New York Times is reporting, in a story Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize, that Dutch electronics giant Philips has announced that it has already developed an LED based light that meets all of the ‘L Prize’s conditions. The bulb is now being tested in what the US Energy Department describes as the most publicly tested bulb ever. “Philips is confident that the product submitted meets or exceeds all of the criteria for the L Prize,” Rudy Provoost, chief of Philips Lighting, said in a statement. The $10 million is almost beside the point. More important, the contest…
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    Safer States

  • BPA tied to Behavior of Children

    Safer States
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:00 am
    A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives this month states that bisphenol-A has been linked to behavior in children who were exposed to BPA in utero: young girls display more masculine tendencies and young boys display more feminine tendencies. The study was conducted by testing BPA levels in the urine of pregnant women. The behavioral abnormalities seem to be affected by BPA level (the higher the mother’s BPA count, the larger deviation from norm was found in the children), and are most pronounced in children of women with high BPA levels during the first 16 weeks of…

  • Creepy Halloween Cosmetics

    Safer States
    29 Oct 2009 | 10:35 am
    The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics this week released a study that brings to light the lack of safety regulations around Halloween cosmetics. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a national coalition of nonprofit health and environmental organizations with a goal of protecting consumer from harmful chemicals being used in cosmetics. Children’s face paints were regularly found to have toxins such as lead, nickel, cobalt and chromium. Lead is a neurotoxin that should be kept away from children at any level. The Healthy Legacy Coalition, a Minnesota-based Safer State organization, commented on the…

  • Join the Million Baby Crawl!

    Safer States
    20 Oct 2009 | 4:31 pm
    Seventh Generation, a company known for a focus on safe, non-toxic cleaning products, is sponsoring the Million Baby Crawl to to demand toxic chemical policy reform from Congress. The Crawl consists of a virtual baby march. On the site, you can create a baby avatar to add to the march as fun way to show your support for a new law to protect us from health-harming chemicals. Seventh Generation created the Million Baby Crawl to lends its support for a new law that discloses toxic chemicals and protects babies, children, and women from the chemicals that can harm them the most. Current federal…

  • PSR report: Toxic chemicals in health care workers

    Safer States
    14 Oct 2009 | 2:03 pm
    Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released an important study last week. They studied the toxic chemicals found in 20 health professionals for a first-ever look into chemicals in their bodies. The sample study tested major chemical types in ten Safer States: Alaska, California, Connecticut, Main, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, New York and Washington. Health care professionals are exposed to different, and more, chemicals due to their work environment, and the study confirmed this: Eighteen of the same chemicals were detected in every single participant, All twenty…

  • Are household products making kids fat?

    Safer States
    5 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am
    A fascinating article at Grist.com takes at look at how endocrine-disrupting chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA), flame retardants (PBDEs), PVC and phthalates are correlated to the obesity epidemic. Can chemicals make us fat? Many scientists are starting to connect the dots that chemicals that mess with the delicate hormonal balance in the human body are indeed to blame for exploding rates of obesity, particularly in children and even babies. Making the connection between the increased use of these chemicals and obesity is difficult since there are so many factors that contribute to obesity,…
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    About.com: Environmental Issues

  • Republicans to Boycott Senate Climate Bill Mark Up; Boxer to Proceed Regardless

    2 Nov 2009 | 11:51 am
    Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has promised to mark up climate legislation in her committee on Tuesday, as planned, despite an expected boycott of the work session by the committee's Republican members. While two members from the minority party (currently, the Republicans) are usually required for a quorum when the committee is marking up a bill, Boxer plans to use a provision in the rules that will allow the Democrats to proceed as long as a majority of committee members are present and votes in favor of the bill. Democrats outnumber…

  • Go Wild at the World Wilderness Congress—Without Leaving Home

    30 Oct 2009 | 9:19 am
    If you aren't attending WILD9--the weeklong World Wilderness Congress (November 6-13) that will bring together many of the world's leading conservationists and wilderness experts to debate and take action on critical environmental issues--you can still pull up a chair and join in through a variety of social networking tools that The WILD Foundation is using to broaden global participation in the event. Read more...Go Wild at the World Wilderness Congress—Without Leaving Home originally appeared on About.com Environmental Issues on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 16:19:14.Permalink | Comment |…

  • Never Say Never(land): UN Names Tinker Bell Ambassador of Green

    26 Oct 2009 | 7:15 am
    The United Nations has named Tinker Bell--a leading citizen of both Disneyland and Neverland--as its "Honorary Ambassador of Green" to help promote environmental awareness among children. Kermit the Frog once observed in song that "it's not easy being green," but he was talking about skin color, not lifestyle. For Tinker Bell, being green isn't just easy, it's as natural as flying. Read more...Never Say Never(land): UN Names Tinker Bell Ambassador of Green originally appeared on About.com Environmental Issues on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 14:15:04.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • EPA Places Annual Cost of Climate Bill at $100 Per U.S. Household

    23 Oct 2009 | 7:29 pm
    The Senate plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming would increase energy costs by about $100 annually (actually $80-$111) for a typical U.S. household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency. That's roughly the same figure the EPA calculated for similar legislation that the U.S. House of Representatives passed in June, although the Congressional Budget Office estimates the annual household cost of the House bill at approximately $175 in 2020. No matter which estimate you use, it works out to somewhere between 20 cents and 50 cents per day for a…

  • U.S. Proposes Plan to Protect Critical Polar Bear Habitat in Alaska

    22 Oct 2009 | 7:46 am
    The Obama administration today announced a new plan to designate more than 200,000 square miles of Alaskan territory as "critical habitat" for polar bears, a threatened species that has become to global warming what canaries once were to coal mines: the visible early warning of pending disaster. Melting sea ice due to global warming is the biggest threat to polar bears' survival as a species--the bears breed, rest, hunt and spend much of their lives on the shifting ice floes of the Far North--and was the primary reason that the Bush administration decided in 2008 to list polar bears as a…
 
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    Chai Life

  • Can’t find the book you want?

    Evan
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:43 pm

  • Best Month Ever!

    Evan
    1 Nov 2009 | 10:25 am
    This has been the most active month that this blog has ever seen. I’d like to personally thank everyone who has stopped here at Chai Life throughout October of 2009, but with a total of 12,096 unique visitors, that would be tough to do. Instead, I’ll just post my thanks here. Thanks for reading!

  • Scariest. Pumpkin. Ever.

    Evan
    30 Oct 2009 | 7:31 pm
    While surfing the web tonight, I stumbled upon what is quite possibly the scariest carved pumpkin that I’ve ever seen. Happy Halloween!

  • Introducing The Apple Vine

    Evan
    29 Oct 2009 | 4:14 pm
    As of this post right here, I have decided to split off a big part of Chai Life in to it’s own website. Henceforth, all Apple-related posts that I have to make will be at a brand new website called The Apple Vine. Click the link below to find an ever-growing resource for the latest Apple news, reviews, tips, tricks, and rumors. I hope you check it out, bookmark it, and enjoy it.

  • New iPhone App Lets You See Through Clothes

    Evan
    25 Oct 2009 | 7:13 am
    DISCLAIMER: For those of you that are a bit slow, this is a joke! Apparently, the creator of the video has been getting some hilarious responses from people wondering when it will be available in the app store.
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    Von Löwen Designs

  • Commitment

    Lars
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:19 pm
    Without commitment, design advice or any advice for that matter, is merely the expression of opinions. When addressing commitment here I am not referring to such things as drawing up a contract or ‘closing the deal.’ Instead, I would like to discuss the designer’s role with ensuring that the client understands exactly what will be necessary to have a successful remodeling project and is clear on what it takes to achieve our goals. The dictionary gives two … [visit site to read more]

  • Custom-Bilt Metals - Energy Efficient Metal Roofing

    Lars
    28 Oct 2009 | 11:26 am
    With the ever increasing awareness of the green movement and realization of the actual environmental impact of their purchasing decisions, a developing number of homeowners are turning to metal roofing as an Earth friendly alternative to … [visit site to read more]

  • Environment Furniture - Organic Contemporary Furniture

    Lars
    21 Oct 2009 | 12:08 pm
    Environment Furniture is another one of those few hardcore companies that in addition to designing a notably unique and engaging product are absolutely and fully … [visit site to read more]

  • Indoor Air Quality - Part II

    Lars
    13 Oct 2009 | 5:49 pm
    Preventing indoor air quality (IAQ) problems in homes requires an integrated strategy that includes: · Controlling indoor pollutants and their sources · Maintaining adequate ventilation and filtration · Maintaining an acceptable indoor environment · Relearning, implementing and family education

  • Indoor Air Quality - Part I

    Lars
    7 Oct 2009 | 4:21 pm
    The Environmental Protection Agency has identified indoor air quality as one of the top five most urgent environmental risks to public health. Yet a survey commissioned on behalf of the American Lung Association Health House program recently found that many of those questioned are not aware the potential dangers associated with poor indoor air or any steps or measures they can take to improve the air quality in their home. · More than 50 percent of Americans are not aware that poor indoor air quality is one of the top five most urgent environmental risks to public health. And nearly 25…
 
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    IPS Inter Press Service - Environment

  • CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copenhagen?

    WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.

  • AFRICA: We Are the Government

    LAGO DISTRICT, Mozambique, Nov 6 (IPS) - As if they were going to the races, Emma Musako and Monica Mhango showed up in their finest outfits to attend a meeting on the health, social and environmental impacts of uranium mining. They came because they, like the other attendees, no longer want to remain uninformed citizens.

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add

    ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov 6 (IPS) - You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain is the division to follow.

  • ENVIRONMENT-SPAIN: Improving Garbage Management

    MADRID, Nov 6 (IPS) - The 60,000 tonnes of rubbish collected daily in Spain, equivalent to 1.3 kilos per person, is being managed by more green-friendly methods of recovery and treatment.

  • ZIMBABWE: Numerous Challenges For Harare Water Supply

    HARARE, Nov 6 (IPS) - Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda is a troubled man. When he took office in July 2008, one of his most immediate tasks was to resolve the water crisis in the capital.
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