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Growing Up Green! - Fulfilling a Mission and Empowering Parents for a Healthier Next Generation

Deirdre Imus | Posted April 22, 2008 | Living

Read More: Adhd, Asthma, Baby, Bipolar, Child, Deirdre Imus Environmental Center For Pediatric Oncology, Depression, Green This, Growing Up Green, Hackensack University Medical Center, Healthy Kids, Healthy Toys, Heart Condition, Imus Cattle Ranch For Kids With Cancer, Imus Ranch, Learning Disorders, Obesity, Ocd, Pdd, Pesticides, Severe Allergies, Toxic, Toxins, Vaccines
Deirdre Imus

As a parent, you want to do everything right and give your baby the best possible start in life. Fifty years ago, our parents had a good understanding of their responsibilities. They were our lifeline and provided us with food, clothing, shelter, education, and of course love. Like parents throughout...

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Bush Administration to Blue-State California: Drop Dead!

Paulina Borsook | Posted March 20, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Kawamura California, Light Brown Apple Moth, Pesticides, Proposition 13, Schwarzenegger
Paulina Borsook

In a joint action, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and the CDFA (California Department of Food and Agriculture) have declared war on the home base of Senators Boxer and Feinstein, house speaker Pelosi, the founders of Moveon.org, gay-marriage-friendly Mayor Gavin Newsom, Code Pink, and Congresswoman Barbara Lee....

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Heads Monsanto Wins, Tails We Lose; The Genetically Modified Food Gamble

Robert Weissman | Posted March 18, 2008 | Business

Read More: Biotech, Food, Genetically Modified Food, Monsanto, Pesticides
Robert Weissman

There have been few experiments as reckless, overhyped and with as little potential upside as the rapid rollout of genetically modified crops.

Last month, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a pro-biotech nonprofit, released a report highlighting the proliferation of genetically modified crops. According...

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Persistent Poisons

Kerry Trueman | Posted January 28, 2008 | Politics

Read More: DDT, Environment, Environmentalism, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Pesticides, POPs, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Kerry Trueman

Why did we ever think that a pesticide that poisons bugs wouldn't be harmful to humans, too? A just-published study from British medical journal, the Lancet, finds that people whose blood levels contain high levels of a category of pesticides known as POPs (persistent organic pollutants) are at greater...

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The Bedbug Chronicles: Part 6

Nicholas Brown | Posted November 14, 2007 | Living

Read More: Apartment Bedbugs, Bed Bugs, Bedbugs, Dealing With Bed Bugs, Exterminator, Living With Bedbugs, Pesticides, The Bedbug Chronicles
Nicholas Brown

Day 34

I have moved from denial, to anger, to depression (I skipped bargaining), to acceptance, and then back to anger. The five stages of tragedy may not account adequately for my anger.

We are now past New York's official deadline to be rid of these creatures. Bedbugs...

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Afghan Poppy Power

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted October 8, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Afghan, Afghanistan, Aghan Poppy Crop, Opium, Pesticides, Poppy, Poppy Crop, Taliban, Taliban Opium
Patricia DeGennaro

The United Nations released a report in August stating that this year's poppy crop in Afghanistan has risen 64 percent. In light of this the U.S. is, again, compartmentalizing its problem solving strategy into one basket. It just wants to nuke -- or sorry, I mean -- drench the yield...

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