| Adverse Health Effects of Plastics |
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 In addition to creating safety problems during production, many chemical additives that give plastic products desirable performance properties also have negative environmental and human health effects. These effects include:
- Direct toxicity, as in the cases of lead, cadmium, and mercury
- Carcinogens, as in the case of diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP)
- Endocrine...
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| TechSoup donations - software and green computers - for all nonprofits |
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 Last year, TechSoup helped almost 40,000 nonprofits worldwide – including approximately 5,000 environmental organizations who saved almost $7,000 each on their computer needs – leveraging $35 million to help the environmental movement. – and a total savings to NGOs of over $1 billion since 1987.
TechSoup is a nonprofit exclusively serving other nonprofits, distributing software from Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, Intuit, Adobe and almost 20 other major companies, as well as refurbished Green hardware –... See entire tip |
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| Back to Basics: Things You Can Do at Home |
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By U.S. EPA
Making a few small changes in your home and yard can lead to big reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and save money. Explore our list of nine simple steps you can take around the house and yard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
- Look for ENERGY STAR qualified products
When buying new products, such as appliances for your home, get the features and performance you want AND help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. Look for ENERGY STAR... See entire tip |
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| What is Peak Oil? Why Does It Matter? When Will It Happen? A Summary. |
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What is Peak Oil?
"Peak Oil" is the phrase used to indicate that production of oil in a designated area, such as a country or the whole planet, will hit a maximum and will then inevitably and irreversibly decline due to depletion of easily accessible oil. "Peak Oil" discussion also generally includes the associated potentially severe disruption of the established patterns of economic and social stability.
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| Chicken or Beef? Or Vegetarian? Or Vegan? Other? |
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 If you answer here, we will submit your answers to Live Earth, which is running this survey.
There's been lots of debate about how best to eat green and healthy. It seems to be time to discuss eating meat, and various non-meat-eating options as well. Are some options better than others, if you do decide to eat meat? ... See entire tip |
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| Helping your local wildlife |
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 If you have room for a birdtable in your backyard or garden, remember to add fresh food daily and to clear away anything mouldy. Birds will come to rely upon your services, especially during winter weather, so regular feeding is important.
Peanuts (groundnuts) and other nuts should always be put into a mesh feeder as some birds can choke on whole nuts.
If you have fruit trees and you cannot eat or give away all your produce don't feel that the fruit is wasted. many birds and other creatures will benefit.... See entire tip |
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| Who wants to get a gift of $500 USD? |
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| Do you? You can help the planet, make your neighbors feel good, and get some modest exercise while making your play to get the $500 prize. Enter our Super-Cars Shout Out Competition. The sooner you start the better. And this plays on POSITIVE energy - some thought that we would be tagging the cars of those driving SUVs and other, umm, undesirable vehicles. No! We are placing attractive, complimenting, informative and non-destructive fliers on the cars of those driving smart, efficient, environmentally-sensitive (as much as a car can be at this time in history) vehicles. So, it is win/win... please, take the $500 and do something good with it! |
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| Would you like to play a game? |
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 "Karnobyl" nuclear plant... watch it melt down when you make the wrong move to solve the simulated nuclear power plant failure. I am not sure if this is a game or a propaganda piece against nuclear power. Congratulations to the authors on a clever game idea that is truly scary.
Systems that take care of humans must embody the ultimate in safety. Elevators, for example, when all fails will lock themselves in place (this nearly prevents the extremely rare occurrence of a falling elevator). What can keep as complex a system as a nuclear plant "... See entire tip |
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| What Happens To Your Body Within An Hour Of Drinking A Coke |
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 Don’t drink cola if you want to be healthy. Consuming soft drinks is bad for so many reasons that science cannot even state all the consequences. But one thing we know for sure is that drinking Coke, as a representative of soft drinks, wreaks havoc on the human organism. What happens? Writer Wade Meredith has shown the quick progression of Coke’s assault.
The main problem is sugar. It’s an evil that the processed food industry and sugar growers don’t want people to know about. Even dietitians, financially... See entire tip |
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| The Challenge of Eating Local: Distribution |
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 More and more consumers are demanding produce grown near their homes, and small farmers are happy to oblige.
The problem is how to get locally grown fruits and vegetables into local kitchens.
Produce distribution in the U.S. is still dominated by big companies that buy and sell in huge volumes, trucking goods across state and international lines. But in a corner of northern Michigan, one entrepreneur is using his experience as a chef and wholesaler to solve one problem facing small farmers.
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