There’s a double standard in many people’s lives today. At home they carefully toss cans and bottles to the blue bin, stacking the newspaper beside it, conscious not to put anything recyclable into the trash. That same person often turns into a waste machine when they get to work, printing out long reports on one [...]
A new study has shown that eating just one serving of canned food over a five day period elevates ones level of bisphenol-A, or BPA, in the bloodstream by over 10x the normal level. Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the study highlights the potential danger of the usage of BPA in [...]
Q: How clear (or not) are the links between the rising incidents of cancers around the world and the prevalence of synthetic chemicals in modern society? With the World Health Organization hinting that cancer could unseat heart disease as the leading cause of death around the world, it’s no surprise that per capita cancer incidence [...]
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web… Purveyors of conventional and genetically-modified (GM) crops — and the pesticides and herbicides that accompany them — are finally getting a taste of their own legal medicine. Minnesota’s Star Tribune has reported that the Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that a large [...]
Still don’t believe that we humans are changing our climate for the worse? Maybe a new study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will change your mind. According the report, in the coming decades we can expect stronger storms, hotter and longer heat weaves, higher average temperatures, and much more precipitation. Seems we [...]
Guest post from Tara Alley. Whether the thought of crafting up a ravishing display of turkey and sides for this year’s Thanksgiving meal leaves you beside yourself with excitement or trembling with a bit of trepidation (I am the latter), I’m finally realizing that much more important than what celebrity chef’s stuffing recipe I go [...]
Q: I heard that species of flora and fauna are dying at a growing rate globally. How is this calculated and which types of species are dwindling faster? Researchers believe that the rate of species loss currently underway is 100-1,000 times faster than what was normal (the so-called “background rate” of extinction) prior to human [...]
