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Health Care: Scientific or Rational?

Kim Evans | Posted 05.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Pesticides, Flouride, Body Cleansing, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Health, Exposure to Chemicals, Healthy Diet, Unhealthy Diets, Chemicals, Toxic Chemicals, Personal Responsibility, Unhealthy Eating, Organic Food, Pesticide, Cancer, Heart Disease, Cleansing, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News
Kim Evans

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
Avital Binshtock

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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Commonly Used Pesticides Threaten Survival Of Pacific Salmon

AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Endangered Animals, Pesticides, Steelhead, Environment, Endangered Species, Pacific Salmon, Pollution, Animals, Green News

SEATTLE — Federal biologists say three pesticides commonly used by farmers threaten the survival of many Pacific salmon and steelhead listed as ...

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Green News Report - April 14, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Cookers, Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Renewable Energy, Utah Wilderness, Oil Prices, McDonald's, Tim Dechristopher, Bpa Plastic, Green News Report, Fda, Green, Green Living, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Florida homes stink!; FDA under fire (again); McDonald's may reduce pesticides in fries; the cardboard box that could save the world; and Utah college student indicted for saving public lands from destruction.

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Cheap American Pesticides Killing Africa's Lions (VIDEO)

60 Minutes | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Video, Africa, Lions, Animals, Chemicals, Furadan, 60 Minutes Killing Lions, 60 Minutes Maasai Cattle, Green News

Last night's "60 Minutes" featured a piece on why some experts believe that Africa's lions are in danger of going extinct. The lions have had a rocky...

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Poison: One Lump or Two?

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 03.15.2009 | Style

Read More: Candy, Toxic Chemicals, Valentine's Day, Pesticides, Poison, Usda, Sugar Beets, Monsanto, Style News
Andrew Kimbrell

As with mercury levels in corn syrup, our government agencies have simply not taken the time to conduct proper research, preferring rather to push genetically modified sugar beat initiatives at the whim of Monsanto and other agribusinesses.

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Al Meyerhoff and the Chemistry of Life and Death

Diane Dulken | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Pesticides, Lawyers, Toxic, Organic Farmers, Nrdc, Organic, Memories, Death, Toxic Chemicals, Natural Resources Defense Council, Leukemia, Food Quality Protection Act, Tribute, Al Meyerhoff Leukemia, Al Meyerhoff, Organic Food, Memory, Cancer, Memorial, Oregon, Portland Oregon, Green News
Diane Dulken

This environmental lawyer reminded us that the vast majority of commercial and industrial chemicals in circulation today are not tested for longterm health effects before being put on the market.

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Organic Fabric By The Yard: Why And Where To Get It

Grist.org | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Cotton Farming, Crafts, Cotton, Organic Fabric, Organic, Green News

Organic cotton is expensive but clearly a good fabric to buy, especially in comparison with conventional cotton. The statistics on pesticides in conve...

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The One Unchanging Rule of Health

Anne Dunev | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Pesticides, Personal Health, Nutrition, Health, Fat, Neurotoxin, Health Care, Sugar, Vegetarian, Vegan, Diet, Food Matters, Eating Matters, Food, Living News
Anne Dunev

Improve your nutrition. This is the one thing you can always do which is never ill-advised and will always improve your condition.

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Pesticides Poisoning Pets -- And Now Vets Will Report It

thedailygreen.com | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Cats, Pets, Dogs, Green News

Dogs and cats may be more vulnerable to pesticide poisoning than their human companions. After all, they nose around close to the ground, where lawn a...

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14 Steps to Food Safety

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 01.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumers Union, Pesticides, Food Policy Institute, Organic Food, Food and Water Watch, Fda, Safety, Food Imports, Food, Environmental Working Group, Center for Food Safety, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

I was shocked to learn that only 1% of most imported food gets inspected. Unless sticking to natural, non processed, domestic foods, there is no way of knowing for sure what's in our food.

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EU Bans Certain Pesticides

Reuters | Jeremy Smith | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: EU Parliment, Energy, Farming, Pesticides, Environmental Policy, Green News, Environment, European Union, Green Policy, Green News

European Parliament negotiators have struck a political deal with EU countries about revising pesticide authorization rules that would reduce the numb...

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How Green Can A Christmas Tree Be?

New York Times | Anne Raver | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Pesticides, Certified Naturally Grown, Usda, Organic Farming, Christmas, Christmas Trees, Local Farmers, Green News

Locally grown, pesticide-free food is gaining sway these days because it is fresh, healthy and supports area farmers. But how many of us give the same...

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Spending Your Organic Food Dollars Wisely

Sloan Barnett | Posted 12.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Pesticides, Green Shopping, Local Food, Organic Food, Shopping, Green, Green Living, Green News
Sloan Barnett

What's keeping shoppers from purchasing organic food? Cost. No question. And who can blame them? But let's understand why and what we can do about it.

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Struggling U.S. Shrimpers Look for Vision from Next President

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Thibodaux, Pesticides, Hurricanes, Louisiana, Golf of Mexico, Obama, Food Safety, Antibitices, Mccain, Shell Oil, Shrimp, Food Supply, Fish Farms, Environment, Usaid, Lafourche, Terrebonne, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

A dozen fresh red roses cradled in baby's breath sit on the console of the shrimper "Queen Mary" as she prepares to cast off from the Morgan City D...

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How to Green Your Genes

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Plastics, Pesticides, Epigenetics, Organic Food, Dna, Parabens, Health, Duke University, Genetics, Future, Green Living, Cleaning, Organic, Family, 100 Days, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

Studies suggest that what we eat, how we live, and what our environment exposes us to today could have an impact on the health of our distant descendants.

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Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Farm Workers, Dominican Republic, Pesticides, Cultivar, Cdh, Del Monte, Cede, Green Edge, Mexico, Incap, Pase, Nicaragua, State Department, Haitians, Tesco, Chiquita, Dole, San Francisco Chronicle, Fertilizers, Honduras, sa8000, U.S. Department of Labor, Usaid, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

The safety of U.S. food depends starts with the farms where our food is grown. Last month, congressional hearings on America's largest salmonella out...

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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Smoking, Cigarettes, Filters, Environment, Green, Environmentalism, Tobacco Industry, Deforestation, Phillip Morris, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News
Simran Sethi

Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.

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