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1 | 2 | 3 | NextDoes Heating Plastics Expose You to Chemicals? 1 Citation How many have heard the recent talk about not using plastic in the microwave to cook with? Supposedly you will be subject to dioxins, the chemical that was used to poison the Ukrainian president. According to the information, the combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins into your food and eventually into the cells in your body. Dioxins are a really dangerous chemical, but they are released into the air mostly as the by-product of industrial processes. Most people are exp, technorati.com
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1 Citation Not enought time allowed for public review of St. Clair River study. http://tinyurl.com/m6e6za 07:34:13 Taking a look at Waukesha?s water request. http://tinyurl.com/l6ko8t 12:56:51 Major wetlands restoration coming to Toronto?s Don River. http://tinyurl.com/mhx2cn 14:53:08 EPA to set timetable for dioxin cleanup in Michigan. http://tinyurl.com/mpt4o4 21:59:38, technorati.com
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Laptop protective cover: funky and eco-friendly 1 Citation When people take into consideration the alternative of a laptop protective cover, they do this precisely because they want to protect their devices against all sorts of external factors that can produce unwanted damages. I don?t know how many of us have in mind the design of the laptop cover, even if it?s an important aspect, if you think about it. The Rendezvous Project Laptop Cover, for example, is both funky and eco-friendly, so it might be a good solution, even for those who aren?t ve, technorati.com
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Nine reasons to listen to Fabien Cousteau 1 Citation (Photo: Fabien Cousteau) Fabien Cousteau brought his famous family name, his explorer?s sense of wonderment, and his concern about the health of the planet to a Global Green Leaders discussion Tuesday at ABC Carpet & Home ?s community space in New York City. His latest project, with his father Jean-Michel and sister Celine, focuses on the orca, or killer whale ? the largest and most widely distributed dolphin on the planet. The PBS special debuted on Earth Day. The grandson of Ja, technorati.com
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Toxic Dump Uncovered Beneath Children's Playground 1 Citation From the Taranaki Daily News by Kirsty Johnston:"Toxic chemicals have been found at a children's playground in Marfell, the site of a New Plymouth's former city dump. The chemicals were tetrachlorobenzene and trichlorophenol, both used in the manufacture of herbicides, Taranaki Regional Council director of environment quality Gary Bedford said yesterday.Workers laying a stormwater drain discovered two drums containing chemicals at Marfell Park in May, and further excavation revealed remnan, technorati.com
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Dioxins in food chain linked to breastfeeding ills 1 Citation Posted by Neill Abayon Exposure to dioxins during pregnancy harms the cells in rapidly-changing breast tissue, which may explain why some women have trouble breastfeeding or don't produce enough milk, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study. Researchers believe their findings, although only demonstrated in mice at this point, begin to address an area of health that impacts millions of women but has received little attention in the laboratory, said corresponding author B., technorati.com
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Dioxins: Dioxins in food chain linked to breastfeeding ills 1 Citation Dioxins in food chain linked to breastfeeding ills, technorati.com
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Chemical Pollutants: Dioxin, Nrf2 and AhR 1 Citation Background: The aryl hydrocarbon receptor is a transcription factor that regulates endobiotic and xenobiotic metabolism. It is now thought the AhR has a function in vascular development and detoxification of endobiotics and xenobiotics including POPs, PAHs and HAHs. One of its major function is the detoxification of dioxin (TCDD) and it is now thought, ?TCDD-mediated toxicities are due to sustained and inappropriate AhR activation leading to deregulated physiologic functions.? (1) I would sugges, technorati.com
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1 Citation EPA to set more stringent standards for bottled water. http://tinyurl.com/qym2kt 17:51:25 Doug Wilcox demos the P&H Cetus and Cetus LV. http://tinyurl.com/pvoxum 17:55:09 EPA to speed evaluation of dioxin health effects. http://tinyurl.com/q2wavf 17:56:51 Waukesha cuts need for Lake Michigan water by over 20 percent. http://tinyurl.com/oag7gb 19:35:39 After 30 years, sturgeon once again spawning in Detroit River. http://tinyurl.com/r7qc57 19:37:04, technorati.com
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1 Citation A friend of mine told me that while she was a student at Bennington College in Vermont, sea sponges were popular alternatives to tampons and pads. I should have gone to Bennington. It was organic shrooms, not sea sponges, going around at UCSB! Now that I?m no longer in the dark about the sponges I?m researching information on brands being sold. I?ve found a thriving eco market of alternatives to disposable menstrual products. Remember when Kotex made us think ultra-thin maxis were revolut, technorati.com
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