Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/03/the-declaration-sign-it-to…

It’s simple, really. It is morally wrong that kids are born pre-polluted with hundreds of toxic chemicals. I know it, you know it. Shouldn’t Congress know it?? We think so.

That’s why EWG created a simple but powerful way to tell our representatives in the U.S. Congress how we feel. We call it The Declaration - because we are declaring a truth: allowing pre-polluted kids is morally wrong. And we think that with enough signatures (that’s where you come in), The Declaration will spur significant change.

Watch the video.

Then sign The Declaration & spread it. When the timing is right and the numbers are high, we’ll hand deliver it to Congress, because there is strength in numbers.

Whatever brings you to this issue - your children’s health, frustration that the government isn’t adequately protecting us, anger that industry seems to continually triumph over human and environmental health - we share a common goal: we don’t want our kids to be born pre-polluted any more. Not…

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Author: dealhippie
Website: http://dealhippie.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/hippo-sweat-could…

By GreenerDesign Staff

MERCED, Calif. — The next big thing in sunblock could be copied from hippos. Researchers have found that hippo sweat (actually an oily secretion) provides hippos with multiple types of protection: from the sun, disease and bugs.

Christopher Viney, a professor at the University of California, Merced, began investigating hippo sweat in 2004, taking samples from Bulgy, a 49-year-old hippopotamus at the Chaffee Zoo in Fresno. His research extended into a trip to Zambia, Africa, in an attempt to retrieve fresh sweat from hippos in the wild. National Geographic had invited him on the trip as part of a TV documentary, though the trip didn’t yield any new sweat samples.

Viney and his team found that the red-colored secretion acts as both a sunscreen and sunblock, with microscopic structures that scatter light, preventing it from burning the hippo’s skin.

The sweat also deters bugs, and helps hippos keep wounds or scratches clean no matter how much mud or filth…

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Author: easy eco blog
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Amazon has the new car care products and biodegradable Green Motor Oil from Green Earth Technologies. It is made from American-grown renewable animal fats.

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