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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
Christopher Gavigan

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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Cleaning Up the Language Around Ocean Pollution

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Environment, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Pollution, Ocean, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

Due to our inability and slowness to adequately describe and respond to the threat, certain areas of our coasts and oceans have become overwhelmed by plastic.

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10 Shocking Products Full Of Petroleum

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Plastic, Green Living, Petroleum, Big Oil, Products, Environment, Green News

About one quarter of the oil consumed in this country is used for industrial purposes. Plastic production is the most obvious example, as awareness gr...

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Halloween? Bah, Humbug!

Michael DeJong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Halloween, Store-Bought, Acrylic, 350.Org, Toilet Paper, Eco-Minded, Cover Girl, China, Pretty Scary, Toxins, Sugar Crash, Paper-Bags, All-Hallows-Eve, Christmas, Eco-Freaks, Jack-O-Lanterns, Urban Myth, Plastic, Flame-Retardant, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Fire-Retardants, Trick-or-Treat, Holidays, Petrochemicals, Pumpkin Seeds, Ready-Made Costumes, Revlon, Candy-Corn, Martha Stewart, Candy-Bars, Heavy-Metal-Toxins, Booty, Womens Voices for the Earth, Big Box Store, Carbon Footprint, Mask, Make-Up, Forest Stewardship Council, Halloween Costumes, Columbus Day, Seventh Generation, Nylon, X-Box 360, Acetate, Ghoul Make-Up, Mommy-Made, Maybelline, Green News
Michael DeJong

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy festive holidays as much as the next person, but we eco-freaks can't help ourselves from sucking the fun out of things, particularly when it comes to harming children.

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Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green

Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Energy, No Impact Week, Lifestyle, Local, Renewable Energy, Green, Manufacturing, Personal Care Products, Recycled, Low-Impact, Lifecycle, Green Living, No Impact, Consumption, Paper, Home, Reduce, Consumerism, Nontoxic, Recycle, Green News, Environment, Reuse, Plastic, Food, Nontoxic Products, Green News
Renée Loux

Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.

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Air Travel Made Greener: 4 Tips

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Carbon Emissions, Luggage, Green, Airplanes, Travel, Air Travel, Paper, Recycling, Carbon Offsets, Waste, Plastic, Flight, Planes, Weight Loss, Sierra Club, Airlines, Reducing Waste, Customer Service, Baggage, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Though air travel is unavoidable at times, there are a few things responsible travelers can do to make flights greener.

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No More Plastic Water Bottles

Adele Israel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Waste, Recycling, Habits, Plastic, Water Bottles, North Pacific Gyre, Denver News
Adele Israel

I attempted to estimate the number of plastic bottles of water sold in Grand Junction in one week. But discount giants and other corporations hold on to sales figures tighter than oil companies hang on to fracking formulas.

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Is Plastic Making Us Fat?

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Plastic, Health, Bpas, Obesity, Obesogens, Obesity Epidemic, Green News

No one's blaming these compounds for the country's entire obesity epidemic fast food and lack of exercise are not off the hook but emerging research p...

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The Real Health Care Problem: Packaging

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Packaging, Plastic, Health Care, Politics News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

Some may say that the public option's costs and financing are the profound issues of health care today, but I believe the real problem is packaging -- and I am not talking about environmental impact!

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Creating a Long, Lasting Legacy of....Dog Poop?

John DeCock | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Biodegredable, Green, Environmentalism, Plastic, Green News
John DeCock

Your dog will still be able to poop. You just won't be able to create little fecal sarcophagi for your great grandchildren to deal with.

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Desperate Bottled Water Industry Battles Trend Toward Tap (VIDEO)

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic Trash, Plastic Waste, Tap Water, Plastic Water Bottles, Environment, Trash, Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Pollution, Bottled Water, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.

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Self-Care = Earth Care

Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Depression, Green, Fat, Earth, Psychology, Obesity, Diet, Medications, Planet, Overeating, Organic, Wellness, Self-Care, Organic Food, Health, Environment, Plastic, Food, Bisphenol A, Therapy, Pollution, Antidepressants, Green News
Avital Binshtock

What's good for our bodies is good for the planet -- and what's bad for the earth is bad for our health.

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David de Rothschild's Fantastic Plastic Bottle Boat

Grist | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Recycle Plastic, Recycle, Recycled Materials, Plastic Bottles, Environment, Green, Plastic, Reuse, Reuse Plastic Bottles, David De Rothschild, Green News

The Plastiki is the latest project of British environmentalist and polar adventurer David de Rothschild, the 31-year-old scion of the famous banking f...

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California Takes On Plastic Bottles Made With BPA

Grist.org | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Neurological Disorders, Infertility, Bisphenol A, Bottles, Food-Storage Containers, Plastic Bottles, Obesity, Sippy Cups, Sports Bottles, Polycarbonate Plastic, Baby Bottles, Plastic, Bpa, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Green News

It's the stuff of a good Hollywood movie-a potentially toxic chemical lurking in the bodies of most unwitting Americans; a decade of mounting but scut...

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Washing Machine Uses Plastic Instead Of Water

Earth 911 | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Xeros, Climate Change, Water, Stains, Green Living Tips, Green, Environment, Washing Machine, Plastic, Nylon, Dirt, Green Living, Green News

Xeros is working on a new breed of washing machines that will use only a cup of water per load, relying on reusable nylon beads to trap dirt and stain...

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USB Hub With On/Off Switches: Green Or Waste? (POLL)

treehugger.com | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic, Gadgets, Green Gadgets, Saving Energy, Poll, Waste, Saving Money, Green News

Treehugger spotted this gadget, which seems ideal for the multi-gadget family: A "4-port USB hub from Buffalo that lets you turn on or off just the ga...

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High School Student Discovers Plastic-Eating Microbe

Mother Nature Network | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Plastic, Plastic Waste, Plastic-Eating Microbe, Green News

Daniel had a thought it seems even the most esteemed microbiology PhD's hadn't considered. Plastic, one of the most indestructible of manufactured mat...

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Jellyfish Spaghetti and Your own Carry Container = Happier Oceans

Graham Hill | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: World Oceans Day, Plastic, Climate Change Jellyfish, Plastic Waste, World-Oceans-Day, Green News
Graham Hill

Apart from an unexpected comeback of cod stocks in the Baltic Sea, it's hard to find good news about our oceans this year, and bottom trawlers and population pressures on Earth are not helping.

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Bisphenol A: The Goods on a Bad Plastic

Nena Baker | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bisphenol A, Food and Drug Administration, Diethylstilbestrol, National Institute for Environomental Health Sciences, Exposure to Chemicals, Women's Health, Health, Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Green News
Nena Baker

The leaked minutes from industry's bisphenol A strategy session in Washington D.C. last week tell a sad and scary tale of desperation.

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The Plastics "Out There" and "In Here"

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Environment, Waste, Plastics, Plastic, Plastic Waste, Plastic Bags, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

A huge percentage of our plastic problem could be addressed immediately, using simple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies.

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Media Catches the Boat to Pacific Garbage Patch

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, North Pacific Gyre, Recycle, Pacific-Garbage-Patch, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Plastic Bottles, Plasticgyre, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

The "away" of our throwaway society turns out to be, in part, a giant patch of broken plastic bits swirling around the Pacific Gyres in an area that has been dubbed "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

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Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water: Health Spotlight

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Water, Tap Water, Environment, Waste, Plastic, Pollution, Reducing Waste, Bottled Water, Green News

According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, bottled water is just as polluted as a tap water. In fact, twenty percent of bottled water ha...

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The Best Water. Ever.

Anthony Anderson | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Estrogen, Water, Pollution, Environmental-Estrogens, Plastic, Springs, Rawmodel, Green News
Anthony Anderson

Drink water directly from the source, the natural mountain spring, and store it in glass until consumed. No plastic if possible, no pressured pipes and shipping.

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Earth Night: 5 Ways To Green Up Your Sex Life

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Green Sex, Plastic, Earth Day 2009, Green Sex Toys, Green Living, Pollution, Earth Day, Earth Day Sex, Earth Night, Green News

Along with Earth Day comes Earth Night -- you know, when it gets steamy in a way wholly unrelated to global warming? Or, at least, mostly unrelated? H...

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Mothers Against Plastic

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Moses, Earth Day, Water Bottles, Plastic, Parenting, Mothers Plastic, mothersagainstplastic.com, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

My first introduction to the inanity of plastic over-usage was having children. There's nothing quite like the mountains of toys and packaging that only seem to be enjoyed during the "opening" portion of a birthday present.

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