One of the pile of books I took out from the library to read is: Safe Trip to Eden by David Steinman. If you are American or you have any relatives or friends right of centre who don’t see the connection between green living and stopping climate change and our reliance on petrochemicals, I think [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth From the Global Warming Meltdown by David Steinman
Posted in Canada, United States, bisphenol-A, body burden, chemicals, climate change, cosmetics, cosmetics industry, environment, estrogens, global warming, green, green living, green patriot, healthy home, indoor air quality, personal care products, phthalates, take action, toxic chemicals, what you can do, tagged Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, cosmetics, deodorant, Not Just A Pretty Face, personal care products, pollution, shampoo, Skin Deep, toxic chemicals, toxic nation on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How Healthy Is Your Home and Tips On How to “Detox” Your House
Posted in carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, green cleaning, green living, hazardous waste, healthy home, indoor air quality, mould, tagged carbon monoxide, dust, formaldehyde, fresh air, green cleaning, green living, hazardous waste, healthy house, indoor air quality, mould, smoke-free on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the Spring & Summer 2007, greenliving magazine, pages 73-75, here is an article about making your home a healthier place to live:
HOME, SAFE HOME
Detoxing Your Digs
By Jennifer O’Connor
Sure, you eat organic and do Bikram yoga, but how healthy is your home? Things like cooking smoke, cleaning chemicals and common moul all hamper indoor air [...]
Somalia: War and Humanitarian Aid
Posted in Africa, Horn Relief, Islamist movement, Oxfam, Somalia, displaced people, humanitarian aid, inter-clan fighting, peace talks, warlords, tagged , Africa, African troops, aid workers, clans, conflict, dictator, disease, displaced persons, Ethiopia, Horn Relief, Human Rights Watch, humanitarian organizations, insurgents, inter-clan fighting, interim government, Islamist movement, misery, Mogadishu, Oxfam, peace talks, poor, rape, sanitation, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, starvation, United Nations, warlords on November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the Tuesday, September 18, 2007, Toronto Star, World & Comment section, pages AA-AA4, an article about the displacement and misery of thousands of people in Somalia.
As Oxfam is one of the humanitarian organizations mentioned in the article, here is the web address of the Take Action page at Oxfam, which includes 10 actions you can [...]
Green Laundry – Clotheslines
Posted in Canada, energy efficient, environment, environmentalists, green, green living, home energy use, save energy, what you can do, tagged clotheslines, conservation, eco-awareness, energy efficient, environmentalists, green living on November 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have one friend who puts her laundry out on a clothesline and another one who would except her municipality does not permit it.
I have a backyard with a shared driveway, unfenced, tiny, with no direct access into the backyard from the basement laundry. But I am all for letting those who can and want [...]
10 Ways To Be Environmentally Responsible
Posted in Energuide, biking, chemical cleaners, environment, environmental charity, fuel-efficient vehicle, green, green living, home energy use, locally grown food, meat-free, organic food, pesticides, plant trees, public transit, renewable energy, solar power, take action, walking, what you can do, wind power, tagged biking, carbon absorption, earth, Energuide, energy efficiency, environment, environmental charity, fuel-efficient vehicle, green, green living, locally grown food, meat-free, non-toxic cleaners, organic food, planet, plant trees, public transit, renewable energy, solar power, walking, wind power, world on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These suggestions about being environmentally responsible are from an Earth Day Canada brochure for Earth Day 2007. When you make green changes, mention the changes to your relatives, friends and co-workers. People may not make changes the first time they hear you are making a change, but you will be surprised in the long run [...]
Summary of Climate Change Report
Posted in IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Synthesis Report, United Nations, adaptation, carbon dioxide emissions, climate change, climate science, climate scientists, coastal flooding, droughts, economic growth, environment, extinction, extreme weather, floods, glaciers, global economy, global warming, green, greenhouse gas emissions, heat waves, heavy rains, mitigation, prophecy, salination, science, sea levels, species loss, take action, tropical storms, water salination, water shortages, tagged , adaptation, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, Climate Change 2007, climate science, climate scientists, coastal flooding, drought, environment, extinction, extreme weather, global economic growth, global economy, global warming, greenhouse gases, heat waves, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, mitigation, prophecy, river flooding, salination, science, scientists, sea levels, UN, United Nations, water salination, water shortages, wildfires on November 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From the StopGlobalWarming.org website, http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=6385211172007 , here is a brief summary of the “Synthesis Report” from the International Panel on Climate Change’s Climate Change 2007 report. It is a scary prophecy of what we can expect if we do nothing. So we all need to start doing our bit — now.
The three other sections of [...]
Synthetic Chemicals In Our Bodies: Buyers Beware
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged biomonitoring, bisphenol-A, body burden, body burden studies, consumer activism, endocrine disrupters, environment, estrogens, flame retardants, hormone disrupters, manufactured goods, natural hormones, PBDEs, phthalate syndrome, phthalates, plastics, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, reduced sperm counts, reproductive organs, sex changes, sperm counts, synthetic chemicals on November 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here is an article from the Daily Green, November 9, 2007, about a study done finding synthetic chemicals in our bodies (http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/body-burden-47110904).
Although this was a U.S. study, similar Canadian studies have shown that we are also contaminated. Until the U.S. and Canadian governments (and others who haven’t acted already) stop harmful synthetic products showing up [...]
Greening Schools
Posted in climate change, environment, global warming, green, green activism, saving energy, take action, what you can do, tagged activism, carbon neutral, climate change, David Suzuki, earth, education, energy efficiency, environment, Friends of the Earth, global warming, green, greenhouse gas emissions, idling, planet, schools, take action, what you can do, world on November 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Five Steps to Go Green At School
If you’ve got kids in school, you have an ideal place to combat climate change and the harsh effects it has on the developing world.
According to Statistics Canada, nearly 5.3 million children spend a good chunk of each weekday in public schools across Canada. Imagine the positive environmental impact [...]
