Toxic

Soul-Talk: Let Go Of Toxicity And Restore Balance To Your Life

Russell Bishop | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Chan Luu, Toxic, Mindful Living, Mindfulness, Soul-Talk, Toxicity, GPS for the Soul, Toxins, Balanced Life, Self-Talk, Soul Talk, Unplug and Recharge, Balance in Life, Life Balance, Self Talk, Healthy Living News
Russell Bishop

After sharing with Chan Luu the work we are doing to create our GPS for the Soul app and go-to-guide for getting back on course when stress overtakes us, I asked her to share how she manages to keep herself in balance.

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Stop the Toxic Insults: They Aren't Helping

Mary Brune | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Toxic, Toxic Substances Control Act, Toxics, Toxins, Bpa, Green News
Mary Brune

Until Congress stands up to the chemical industry lobby and does the right thing by reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act, parents everywhere will continue to read books about the issues, educate themselves about safer alternatives and take action. That's not hysterical. That's heroic.

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Ending the Toxic Shell Game

Michael Green | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Bpa, Toxic, Safe Chemicals Act, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bisphenol A, Green News
Michael Green

In California we recently won a victory when BPA was banned from baby bottles and sippy cups. Even before the ban, some producers were eliminating BPA from their products. My daughter's pink sippy cup, for example, was labeled "BPA-free." So why would I still worry?

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How Toxic Is Your Nail Polish Really?

Organic Authority.com | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Beauty Flash Report, Toxic, Health, Environment, Nail Polish, Beauty, Organic, Safe Cosmetics, Green News
Organic Authority.com

You're no eco-dummy. You don't need to do a lick of research to know that a product that comes in every hue of the rainbow -- and then some -- is anything but natural.

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More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism

Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Clean Alternative Energy Program, Children, Epa, Beso, Agriculture, Green, The Harvest, Shine Global, Producer, Seasonal, Recycling, Regulations, Farms, Volunteer, Eva Longoria, Al Gore, Farmworkers, Dropouts, Poverty, Local, Gabrielle Solis, Pizza Fusion, Film, United Farm Workers, School, Greenville Project, Sustainable, Chefs, Las Vegas, Developers, Food, Construction, Fields, Health. Education, Pesticides, Eco, Immigrants, Retail, Hormones, Organic, Commercial Real Estate, Desperate Housewives, Inconvenient Truth, Philanthropy, Hybrids, Activism, Bill Clinton, Abc, Oregon, Toxic, Felicity Huffman, CARE Act, Laborers, Los Angeles, Gym, Portland, Fame, La Cosecha, Marcia Cross, Restaurants, Environment, Documentary, Ingredients, Ranch, Prop 87, Bottled Water, Hollywood, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Eva Longoria, who plays the self-involved Gabrielle Solis on ABC's Desperate Housewives, takes on extracurricular projects that set her far apart from her shallow onscreen persona.

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Getting Ready for 2012 -- Doing an Emotional Housecleaning

Carole Bennett, MA | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Holiday, Recovery, Toxic, Relapse, Family, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Living News
Carole Bennett, MA

It is sad, scary, disappointing and unnerving to come to the realization that you just don't like some people that you have been told all your life to love. However, you can love them and accept them, but realize their limitations and don't set yourself up for anything to change.

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Caught in the Act: Malibu's Dirty Little Secret Cleaned Up (VIDEO)

Kathy Eldon | Posted 01.29.2012

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Kathy Eldon

The glamorous city of 13,000 is now leading the way in stopping toxic stormwater and chemical-laden urban runoff from destroying its glamorous coastline.

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BPA Dilemma: NRDC Vs. California Vs. Science

Jon Entine | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Nrdc, Oehha, Toxicology, European Food Safety Authority, Toxic, Phytoestrogens, Sarah Jannsen Endocrine Disruptor, Joshua Sharfstein, Cdc, Richard Sharpe, Fda, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Proposition 65, Natural Resources Defense Council, Green News
Jon Entine

When you can't win on the evidence, invoke the law and pray the webmob will carry the water for you. Unfortunately, that has been the strategy of activists when science policy is in play.

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How Celebs Turn Into Bookworms

Woman | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Paris Hilton, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Geri Halliwell, Lindsay Lohan, Toxic, Derek Walcott, Living in the Moment, Gary Null, Susan Shapiro Barash, Emma Watson, Books News

HARRY POTTER star Emma Watson was snapped this week clutching a copy of the best-selling self-help book A 3rd Helping Of Chicken Soup For The Soul. ...

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Jessica Alba: Super Mom

Sarah Janssen | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Toxic, Take Out Toxics, Health, Bpa, Chemical Policy, Tsca, Chemicals, Green News
Sarah Janssen

Actress and mother Jessica Alba is traveling to Washington DC next week to lend her name and star power to an extremely worthy cause: reducing our exposure to unsafe chemicals.

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Watching the Future Wash Away

Donald Carr | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Farming, Soil, Toxic, Run Off, Corn, Agriculture, Dead Zone, Conservation, Erosion, Chemicals, Corn Belt, Commodity Crop, Farm, Water, Agribusiness, Soybeans, Farm Subsidies, Usda, Farm Bill, Crp, Eqip, Green News
Donald Carr

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy and sustainable food system in the future.

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Plastic Wars: Science Loses in Renewed Campaign Against Plasticizers

Jon Entine | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Plasticizers, Poison, Outgasses, Dehp, Plasticisers, Toxic, Vinyl, Children?S National Medical Center, Chemophobia, Pvc, Friends of the Earth, Endocrine Disruptor, Offgassing, Phthalates Children's Toys, Outgass, Phthalates, Outgassing, Bund, Green News
Jon Entine

No science based agency in the US, Europe or elsewhere has found direct links between phthalates and human health. But this doesn't stop some groups from plying on consumer fears.

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There's one in every bunch

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friend, Friendship Expert, Personality, Relationships, Toxic, Tags: Circle of Friends, Friendship Advice, Groups, Living, Breaking News, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Hi Irene, I was Googling 'toxic friends' and came across your blog. I am friends with a pretty great group of women, with the exception of ...

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Guest Post: How to handle toxic teen friendships

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Talking Teenage, Reputation, Guest Post, Toxic, Relationships, Toxic-Teen, Friendship by the Book, Teen, Jennifer A. Powell-Lunder, Toxic Friendship, Downgrading, Phasing Out, Living, Breaking Living News, PsyD, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

By Barbara R. Greenberg, PhD and Jennifer A. Powell-Lunder, PsyD Teens are hard-pressed to know when they should phase out a friendship. As parents, ...

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Searching For Nobuo Nagano

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Passengers, Miura Ayako, Ayako Miura, Tokyo, Earthquake, Tsunami, Toxic, Japan, Christian, Shiokari Pass, World News
Mark Joseph

As workers battle catastrophe at stricken nuclear power plants spewing toxins into the environment a handful of modern-day Nobuo Nagano's stand against it, willing to sacrifice their lives in order to save the lives of countless others.

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Toxic friendship? It takes two

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Hi Dr. Levine, I have read most of your posts about needy friends and overbearing friends and annoying friends. I am in a long-term friends...

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When you can't stand your teen's best friend

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Hi Irene, What should you tell a teen whose friend is nothing but trouble when she feels that the friend is her best friend in the who...

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In Chevron RICO Suit Against Amazonians, Who's the Real Gangster?

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trial, Court, Toxic, Rainforest, Contamination, Ecuador, Oil, Waste, Chevron, Pollution, Justice, Lawsuit, Green News
Rebecca Tarbotton

Last week, Chevron filed a RICO suit against a remote Ecuadorian community. That's right: the oil giant is using a law intended to rein in the Mafia against 47 inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest.

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Sundance: Rage, Outrage, and a Vision

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Jr., Toxic Sludge, Coal, Toxic, Alternative Energy, Co2 Emissions, Robert Kennedy, Emissions, Global Warming, Sundance 2011, Appalachian Mountains, Strip Mining, Entertainment News
Larry Beinhart

On every level, coal mining and burning coal for energy is destructive. Watch the film to be outraged. And to be inspired.

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Chevron's Casting Call

Lauren Selman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecuador, Rainforest Action Network, The Yes Men, Commercial, Chevron, Toxic, Oil Spill, Advertising, Spoof, Parody, Amazon Watch, Casting, Legacy, Campaign, Pollution, We Agree, Green News
Lauren Selman

Any working actor will tell you that the job begins in the audition. It's true. Enter the room like you have the job, and you're much more likely to n...

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Everyday Chemicals May Be Harming Kids, Senate Panel Told

cnn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Of the 84,000 chemicals on the market today -- many of which are in objects that people come into contact with every day -- only about 1 percent of th...

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An Officer of the (KBR) Court

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Guard, Law Suit, Kbr, Toxic, Business News
David Isenberg

I have written before on the lawsuit by National Guardsman against KBR regarding the alleged their poisoning by exposure to sodium dichromate at Qarma...

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Hungarian Bauxite

J Henry Fair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Art, Toxic, Danube Sludge, Bauxite, Red Sludge, Climate Change, Hungary, Global Warming, Slidepollajax, Green News
J Henry Fair

2010-10-08-bauxite.jpgAs we blithely toss our aluminum cans into the waste basket, consider numerous über-toxic sites in the USA, the collapse of the Iceland economy, Alzheimer's -- that soda can affects you personally.

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Lead-Tainted Jewelry Found on Retailer's Shelves Despite State Warnings

Joanna Lin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Illegal, California, Toxic, Children, Health, Rainbow Apparel, Jewelry, Los Angeles, California Watch, Los Angeles News
Joanna Lin

As Americans consume more and more products from China and other countries with weaker consumer safety regulations, the case of Rainbow Apparel shows the persistence of lead contamination.

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Genetically Modified Salmon Jeopardize Environment, May Endanger Consumer Health

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmon, Toxic, Food Politics, Fish, Genetically Engineered Foods, Food Safety, Genetically Modified Food, Regulation, Fda, Consumer Protection, Aquabounty, Food News
Wenonah Hauter

The FDA may allow the sale of genetically modified salmon to consumers. Already, flaws in the review process surrounding this controversial disruption to the natural food chain are coming into focus.

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