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How Safe Is Flouride In Our Drinking Water?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009There’s a huge debate about flouride in our water. We have had flouride in drinking water since the sixties when it was thought to help with tooth decay. Modern research has now shown us that it can have harmful side effects and the amount should be lowered. Hell, we should get rid of it.
In fact, [...]
Chemical Free Swimming Pools
Thursday, June 25th, 2009It took it’s time, but the hot summer weather is finally here. That means we are going to want to have some pool time to cool off. But if you are concerned about all of the chemicals in traditional pools, then check this out. There’s a trend sweeping Europe which is now making it’s way [...]
Green Mountain Coffee Eco Gift Guide
Monday, December 15th, 2008The other day, I received a catalog from my favorite coffee company- Green Mountain. I was happy to see that they had put together an Eco Friendly Gift Guide, featuring their Fair Trade Organic Coffee.
Green Mountain is a big supporter of Fair Trade farmers and believes that, “We are all more powerful when we work [...]
ReJAVAnate Reusable Burlap Bags
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I received some nice feedback on my recent post about my switch to reusable bags. One email from Doug informed me of a recycled/reusable bag called ReJAVAnate made from used burlap.
The ReJAVAnate reusable bag program takes burlap from coffee roasters and turns them into reusable bags. The program also works with The ARC (which [...]
Bring Your Own Bags
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008I finally made the leap and started bringing my own bags to the grocery store. I did this a few weeks ago actually and it really wasn’t that big of a deal. Granted, this doesn’t require any monumental effort on my part but I still feel pretty good about it.
I’ve planning to do it for [...]
The Healing Power Of Sea Vegetables
Friday, July 4th, 2008Sea vegetables are an extremely nutrient rich source of calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, sodium iron, iodine, Vitamins A, B, C, E, K, chlorophyll, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, protein and folate. They also contain all of the trace minerals and micronutrients found in the ocean, which are also found in human plasma, the fluid surrounding [...]
North America’s Most Bike-Friendly Cities
Monday, June 23rd, 2008With oil prices ever-rising many people are turning to the bike for their daily commute. Some cities are much more desirable than others when it comes to bicycling due to the availability of things like bike share programs, bike corrals for commuters, well-maintained bike trails, and bike lanes and boxes.
California did quite well in [...]
Greening Your Cleaning by Deidre Imus
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Greening Your Cleaning is full of valuable information about how to protect your health by going green with your cleaning routine. Deidre Imus convinces the reader that the chemicals we use to clean our homes, can cause serious illnesses and that modern day cleaners contain a toxic soup of carcinogens, neurotoxins (they attack the body’s [...]
Scorecard Measures Companies Impact on Climate
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Environmental reports have a tendency of being full of doom and gloom which I feel has a negative net affect on the real problems at hand. So instead of focusing on the negative aspects of climate impact, Climate Counts has taken a refreshingly positive glass-half-full approach to climate impact with their annual scorecard reports.
Climate Counts [...]
TONIC – Clothes with a Cause
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008I wrote previously about my successes in ridding my mailbox of unwanted junk mail using GreenDimes. Well, it’s been over six months and my mailbox is still thankfully very clean. It turns out the good folks at GreenDimes who helped me clean up my mailbox have another venture called TONIC that sells clothing in order [...]
