Dreaming of a Consumption-Free Christmas
There may yet be a positive outcome to the long recession blues. For some of us, cutting back has come as something of a relief this holiday season, and it’s also better news for the environment.
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New Warnings about BPA
An interview on the environmental website Yale360 raises renewed concerns about the health dangers of bisphenol-A, or BPA, a chemical found in polycarbonate plastic, in the epoxy resins lining most canned food, in dental sealants and on cash register receipts.
Which electronics manufacturers are greenest?
Now that many consumers are beginning to care about their own environmental footprints, manufacturers are responding with loads of greener offerings. One good place to find them is the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, televisions and game consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change.
Cleaner Cleaners?
A new law in California aimed at cleaning up cleaning products may help reduce air pollution nationwide.
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Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Es verdad que factores ambientales podrían estar jugando un papel en el número creciente de casos de cáncer de próstata en EE.UU. y otras partes?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: Dados los beneficios ambientales y económicos, ¿por qué no tiene EE.UU. una ley federal que ordene el reciclando por todo el país?
What are “Trayless Tuesdays” in school cafeterias?
Schools in New York and elsewhere around the country are considering ditching disposable polystyrene lunch trays with reusable ones.
The Mountain Heroes
Earthjustice has launched an innovative way to expose the devastation wrought by mountaintop removal mining—a campaign called Mountain Heroes that makes it personal.
Escape from the Lab
Fears are mounting that a lab being built to study dangerous animal diseases could potentially act as a launching point for the spread of those pathogens.
Are environmental factors playing a role in the increase in prostate cancer?
Researchers are studying whether environmental factors could be causing an uptick in prostate cancer recently.