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Most people are probably exposed to more BPA from eating canned food or drinking canned soda than from drinking out of a polycarbonate bottle.
Jane Minogue | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
It was the last day of my husband's staycation (nope, we didn't go anywhere), and we realized that one of the errands we overlooked (party animals that we are) was taking the recycling to a center.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.
AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Mandatory deposits on water bottles are expected to start this fall in New York, while the Paterson administration considers chan...
Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Steve Wasik, chief executive officer of SIGG, has made an astonishing admission: the company's aluminum water bottles manufactured before August 2008, were made with epoxy resin that contains bisphenol A (BPA).
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
Dear Eco Etiquette: I have a roommate who insists on buying bottled water. I've sent her various statistics and pictures about how harmful the produc...
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.
Thomas Stern | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
A conversation with someone who clearly walks the talk.
Grist | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green
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...
Elaine Shannon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
BPA, a synthetic estrogen as well as a plastics hardener, disrupts the endocrine system and causes a growing list of chronic, often permanent disorders in lab animals.
Grist.org | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
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...
Nena Baker | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
The leaked minutes from industry's bisphenol A strategy session in Washington D.C. last week tell a sad and scary tale of desperation.
Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
A huge percentage of our plastic problem could be addressed immediately, using simple, cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies.
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green
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."
Ina Pinkney | Posted 04.10.2009 | Chicago
For the last three decades, prominent restaurants have been used as a vehicle to promote this sadly wasteful product. And just like consumers, many of us have been lead to believe that what's in the bottle is somehow safer than what is in the tap.
sciam.com | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living
As politicos bandy about the issue of banning bisphenol A (BPA), the hard-plastic additive that's been linked to a host of health problems, several co...
Hillary Newman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green
Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green
Going through the insult of chemotherapy is bad enough. But discovering that it could be undermined by a hazard the FDA refuses to regulate makes it worse.
Christine Escobar | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green
Perchlorate is a chemical used by the Defense Department for testing missiles and rockets. Most perchlorate contamination is believed to be the result of defense and aerospace activities.
Susan Kane | Posted 10.23.2008 | Living
We get that more research needs to be done to truly understand the effects of this chemical on our bodies, but that doesn't mean the public should remain the guinea pigs.
White Apricot | Laurel House | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green
Because we Americans are trying our best to pretend that we aren't associated with the apparently unconscious machine that conceptualized plastic in t...
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green
It's really cool to be able to look around and actually see that you are part of a new era in design.
Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green
We have heard of climate deniers and chemical industry defenders, but now John Tierney of The New York Times joins the ranks of the Everything Deniers...
Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
It seems like every day there is a new study or a new test result that proves something is very, very bad for you. From cellphones to plastic water bo...
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Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living