Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume Eighty Seven.
Damn it’s cold this morning. We had to go out the other day and buy an ice scraper for our car and start looking at shovels for the first time in many, many years. It was 31 degrees the other morning – but this weekend should be in the 70’s during the day. I think nature is having a hard time deciding what it wants to do. We are also headed out on an old steam-engine train trip this weekend to see the fall foliage in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, so I am glad it won’t be freezing out. Should have some pictures next week for you to check it out. Now, on to some articles that caught my eye this past week!
“I have very, very environmentally conscious children — more so than me, I’m embarrassed to say,” said Ms. Ross, a social worker in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. “They’re on my case about getting a hybrid car. They want me to replace all the light bulbs in the house with energy-saving bulbs.” Ms. Ross’s children are part of what experts say is a growing army of “eco-kids” — steeped in environmentalism at school, in houses of worship, through scouting and even via popular culture — who try to hold their parents accountable at home.
Apple moves towards a greener computer. Greenpeace welcomed Steve Jobs’ announcement today that Apple’s latest set of notebook computers – the MacBook Pro, MacBook and MacBook Air – as well as the LED Cinema Display will now be free of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) internal cables and will no longer contain internal components containing brominated flame retardants (BFRs).
Live in Los Angeles? Then be sure to vote for the environment by Voting Yes on Measure R . Measure R would raise the LA County tax by a half cent, then use that extra money to build subways and improve other public transportation, as well as fix up some freeways and roads. I know some of my friends from LA read this site, so make you guys vote on this one!
Learn to Live the Not-So-Big Lifestyle – Author, architect and visionary Sarah Susanka explains the “not-so-big” lifestyle and how it’s evolved.
Teflon and non-stick surfaced cookware has been in the green news before for being not so green, or healthy. The problem is that non-stick coatings are not meant for very high heat, and on many cookware labels they actually say “for low to medium heat”. That doesn’t mean people adhere. You figure its a pan, for cooking, its going to get hot. Duh. Apparently when overheated it can be a potential health hazard. The EWG links the chemicals used in nonstick coatings to cancer, stroke and high cholesterol. So what do we do? Look for cookware that is void of this family of chemicals known as PFC’s (Also called PFOA, PFOS, C8, PTFE, and Teflon).
Have a nice weekend everyone!
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