Author: Go Green Items Blog
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Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/12/visit-msnbccom-for-breakin…

As Enviroblog readers may recall, we’ve been talking about cell phone radiation quite a bit this fall. In addition to a rigorous science assessment and tips on reducing your own radiation exposure, we’ve suggested that phones carry radiation labels (SAR values, actually) so consumers can make an educated choice when choosing a phone.

Well, good news from the west coast, then.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing local legislation that would make that city the first in the country to require such consumer-friendly labeling.

Hear all about it in this TV interview with EWG’s California Director, Renee Sharp:

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Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/12/healthy-home-tips-for-your…

‘Tis the season to be jolly cooking. Fa la la la la, la la la la.

In the next two weeks, you’re probably going to do some (or possibly tons of) holiday cooking. You’ll buy ingredients, cook, clean — and enjoy some leftovers. It’s a great time to do a little “greening” before the guests arrive.

EWG makes it easy to prepare your holiday feasts with your family’s environmental health in mind. Just follow these simple tips as you shop, cook, eat and clean:

Cook with safer foods
The food we eat can contain ingredients we don’t want to eat — from pesticides to food packaging chemicals. To find safer foods, we suggest that you:

• Buy organic when you can. Organic produce is grown without pesticides, so when you eat it you’re not also eating toxic chemicals. Organic meat and dairy products also limit your family’s exposure to growth hormones and antibiotics.
• When you can’t buy organic, look for less-contaminated conventional produce. Our Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in…

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Author: easy eco blog
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The average household will spend over $1100 staying warm during the winter.  This cost just keeps going straight up.  You can lower your heating costs by 5% for every 1 degree lower you set your thermostat. Easily save $200 a year.
We realized that we were not setting our thermostat optimally, when we saw some tips [...]

Related posts:

1. Air Conditioner Energy Savings
2. Reduce Refrigerator Energy Use
3. Compact Flourescent CFL Sales Drop

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Author: Elaine Shannon
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/12/top-10-environment-stories…

1. Secret Gas Drilling Chemical Almost Kills Colorado nurse
Doctors ran into a medical mystery — and a stone wall from industry — when they tried to find what was in a gas drilling chemical that nearly killed a Colorado nurse. Aren’t you glad that Congress exempted these “fracking” chemicals from regulation under the Safe Water Drinking Act?

2. Intersex Fish Turn Up All Over
Are you a boy or are you a girl? That’s the question that scientists are asking as they study the organs of supposedly male fish from coast to coast and find eggs in many of them. The chief suspects: endocrine-disrupting pollutants that even in tiny amounts can mimic hormones and affect sexual development.

3. Prescription Drugs in Your Drinking Water
Take a swallow and call me in the morning. Antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - they’ve all turned up in tests of drinking water around the country. Could there be health risks from decades of drinking water laced with combinations…

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Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2009/12/challenge-video-one-degree-ma…

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One Degree Matters follows social and business leaders as they travel to Greenland and experience for themselves the dramatic effects of the melting of the ice cap and come to understand the planetary effects of climate change and the impacts these will have on society and the economy. The film brings to the screen the latest science from the Arctic and shows why a further rise in global temperature of one degree matters for the future of humankind.

This video was posted 11 days ago by the European Environmental Agency.

Why do we call this a “challenge video“?

One simple reason.  We know that some of you out there are – fair enough – cynics about climate change.  We know that others of you may believe that this is a problem but still are cynical about making the connection to Project Management.

So the video you are about to watch – or at least we hope you will watch – will challenge you to think in terms of opportunity.  Enjoy the photographic…

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Author: Elaine Shannon
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/12/the-next-decades-10-bigges…

Climate change dominates the headlines this month, and that’s likely to continue well in the new decade. But green issues don’t stop there. EWG predicts the next big stories on the environmental front:

1. Rising infertility, early puberty, obesity linked to endocrine-disrupting chemicals

The evidence, still circumstantial, is expected to expand as dozens of new studies focus on the myriad health hazards of hormonally-active pollutants.

2. Water Riots

Dwindling water supplies trigger conflicts. In some places, climate change is the culprit. In others, poor conservation practices.

3. Hydrofracking threatens more water supplies

The natural gas drilling technique, formally known as hydraulic fracturing, injects tons of chemicals into oil shale deposits. It’s only beginning in the Marcellus Shale that underlies New York and Pennsylvania.

4. Mad Max landscape realized as trees are burned for energy

Biomass energy means clearing and burning forests.

5. Polar cap…

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