The Power of Information

Environmental working group website. Loaded with rating and tip, information and research on products. Some topics include: Chemical Index/Energy Tips/Farming/Health/Sunscreens/Toxins and much much more. Get the real information on what we are consuming and being exposed to so we can make healthy choices.

Reduce Your Body’s Toxic Load

Have you ever wondered what happens to all the pesticides that are sprayed to kill bugs? Do they just disappear magically? David Pimentel from Cornell University had that thought, so he studied what happened to pesticides and published his results in 1995. Read the full article on The Huffington Post

What’s in YOUR Body Care Products?

Follow-Up Tests of Leading Personal Care and Household Cleaning Brands Reveal Improvements in Levels of Carcinogenic 1,4-dioxane But New Study Indicates Some Products Mislabeled as “Natural” Should Have Cancer Warning 3/6/2009 ANAHEIM, CA – Today, a new follow-up study was released that assesses levels of the petrochemical carcinogen 1,4-dioxane in leading conventional as well as [...]

The Truth About Plastic

photo: Kang Kim for TIME This week’s time magazine has a very good article about a woman who has taken on an experiment, much like ours, to eradicate plastic from her life. Not an easy task. This article an interesting and scarey look into how much plastics has become an unavoidable part of our lives. [...]

What I COULD’A done was plan: on the Go-Go

The Learning—plan ahead. If I had allowed more time, I could have gone to a used book store to look for the book “The Little Prince” or bought it used online from Amazon. I can see another thing I’m up against, as I am certain others are, is the pace of life. On the go-go. [...]