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Chemicals In Everyday Products Turning Boys Into Girls?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Toys, Pesticides, Sunscreen, Parabens, Boys, Dioxin, Defra, Healthy Child Healthy World, Toxins, Girls, Toxic Chemicals, Stainless Steel, Organic Food, Plastic, Hormone-Disrupting-Chemicals, Cancer, Phthalates, Health, Living News

A new report from the Danish Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), highlights the critical risks facing toddlers from gender bending chemicals in everyday products.

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The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Usda, Michael Pollan, Kathleen Merrigan, Research, Tom Vilsack, President Obama, Cafo, Big Ag, Food Safety, Food Policy, Technology, E. Coli, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Green News

A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.

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Big Barack Bummer

Sarah Newman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

It's disappointing that the Obama Administration is not providing the visionary leadership on agriculture, like it is in some many other policy areas.

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The Adventure of the Strangled Gulf

John DeCock | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Fertilizer, Agribusiness, Pesticides, Ethanol, Ocean Dead Zones, Toxics, Dead Zone, Green News

I requested of Holmes an elucidation as to how residents of the rural Midwestern United States could be responsible for a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. "It's elementary," he said with aplomb.

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EPA Decides to Take a New Look at Atrazine

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Drinkingwater, Simplesteps, Atrazine, Toxics, Midwest, Health, Ecosytems, Pesticide, Frogs, Green News

Today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States.

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Obama's Chief Agricultural Negotiator Nominee a Pesticide Pusher

Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Ustr, Pesticides, International Food Policy, Free Trade, Food Policy, Obama Administration, Gmos, Croplife, Green News

The Obama administration has chosen someone from an organization dedicated at all costs to chemical-based agriculture to represent our trade interests abroad.

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Pesticides Linked To Parkinson's

Yahoo! News | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Pesticides, Study, Health, Parkinsons, Parkinson's Disease Pesticides 2009, Huffington Post Pesticides, Living News

People whose jobs bring them in regular contact with pesticides may be at increased risk for Parkinson's disease, a U.S. study finds....

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Diabetes and Endocrine Disruption: Connecting the Dots

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Atrazine, Diabetes, Living News

I consider myself fairly well-read, and educated about health. I've researched the endocrine disruption effects of chemicals--that is, the ways that c...

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Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Neglected At A Cost To Health

The New York Times | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Lead, Baths, Municipalities, Rashes, Health, Toxic Water, Wells, Clean Water Act, Heavy Metals, Barium, Epa, Clean Water Act Violations, Showers, Manganese, Pollutants, Arsenic, Water Utilities, Public Health, Sewage, Drinking Water, Green News

Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact wit...

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Thirsting for Truth: No "Safe" Level of Atrazine

Timothy LaSalle | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Pesticides, Atrazine, Water, Diabetes, Pollution, Organic, Industrial Agriculture, Green News

Even atrazine's advocates do not deny the toxicity of the chemical outright -- it is, in fact, a substance created to kill. The legal pollution in our water has unacceptable human consequences.

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Why It's So Hard Not To Be Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Fat, Weight Loss, Sugar, Pesticides, Fast Food, American Diet, Prevention-Magazine, Steroids, Weight Loss Tips, Herbicides, Fast Food Industry, Weight, 1950s, Papa-Johnss-Pizza, Salt, Wendy's, McDonald's, Marketing, Processed Food, Losing Weight, Food Marketing, 1950s-Housewife, Canned Foods, Growth Hormones, Weight Gain, Blackberry Addiction, Pollan Food, Food Labels, Weight Control, Michael Pollan, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Health, Real Food, Toxic Waste, Consumer Protection, Heart Attack, Living News

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...

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Agricultural Biotechnology: Scourge or Savior?

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Pesticides, Biotechnology, Genetically Engineered, Corn, Crops, Genetically Engineered Foods, Michael Jacobson, Biotech, Living News

Congress should require the Food and Drug Administration to formally approve new GE foods to ensure that they are safe for humans.

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The Real Reason to Eat Organic Food

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Agricutlure, Pesticides, Chemicals, Research, Organic Food, Health, Nutrition, Living News

Aside from the fact that the nutritional content of just about ALL of our food has declined over the past 50 years, we are, as a rule, overfed. And good nutrition is available from many sources in our diet.

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Preserving the Dying Art of Cooking (and Other Things I Do Because I Know in My Heart They're Important)

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Pesticides, Home Cooking, Polaroid, Gmos, Biodiversity, Apples, Monsanto, Not-Eating-Out-in-New-York, Style News

Cooking for ourselves is something people did for hundreds and hundreds of years and now we don't do it. The loss of this in our culture strikes me as profound.

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Keep Yourself and Your Child Away from FDA-approved Pesticide Linked to Parkinson's Disease

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Green Living, Children's Health, Children, Personal Health, Health, Green News

Yet another report is out suggesting pesticides are a leading cause of Parkinson's Disease

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On the Streets: Organic or Ganic? (VIDEO)

Jonathan Kesselman | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Food, Comedy, Jonathan Kesselman, Green News

In episode 10 of my show for The Mother Nature Network, I learn that either I have amazing powers of persuasion...or people will eat some of the nastiest stuff in the world to be on camera.

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Protect Your Children From Pesticides

thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Food, Child, Children, Health, Food, Childrens Health, Green News

A new study suggests yet more reason kids are more susceptible to the harmful effects of harsh chemicals: Their bodies have yet to produce significant...

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18 Tips To Green Your Pest Control

WebEcoist | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green, Pesticides, Green Living, Green Living Tips, Pest Control, Green News

There are many eco-friendly ways to approach pest control, whether the problem is slugs on your patio or a snake in the pool. We no longer have to rel...

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Parkinson's Disease Linked to Pesticide Exposure

thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Chlordane, Pesticides, Organochlorine Insecticides DDT, Soil, Organic Food, Green, Food, Green News

Yet another study has linked pesticide exposure to Parkinson's disease, according to Reuters, and this study, published in Annals of Neurology seems t...

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8 Pesticides In Your Own Kitchen (Whether You Use Pesticides or Not)

Dan Shapley | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticide Alternatives, Pesticides, Home, Health, Children's Health, Kitchen, Green News

A new study finds that the kitchen floors in most U.S. homes are laced with pesticides -- including pesticides known to cause cancer or disrupt the normal functioning of the human hormonal system.

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Owls: Israel's Organic Pesticides

BBC NEWS | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Israel, Pesticides, Farming, Owls, Animals, Green News

Owls and kestrels are being employed as agricultural pest controllers in the Middle East. Many farmers are installing nest boxes to encourage the b...

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Green News Report - May 14, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Evangelical Christians, Epa, Green News, Religious Right, Glenn Beck, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Green News Report, Green News

In Today's Audio Report: Zombie lies that just won't die; EPA bans pesticide in U.S.; Just whose side is God on in the climate legislation debate?

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Health Care: Scientific or Rational?

Kim Evans | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living

It's time we started thinking about things differently. If a reliance on proven demonstrated science has gotten us exactly to where we are now, perhaps a shift of focus to rational is the best move we can make.

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Earth Day Film Review: A Sense of Wonder

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Breast Cancer, Writing, Books, Rachel Carson, Nature, Environment, Silent Spring, Movie, Cancer, Earth Day, Film, Dvd, A Sense of Wonder, Green Living, Green News

It's a quiet film, one that asks us to set aside our hunger for over-dramatic portrayals of human conflict; watching it feels like a meditation of sorts.

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