If you’re addicted to your hair dryer and your straightener, this spring is the time to go cold turkey, and not just because it’s damaging to your locks. Hair trends for spring—yes, there are hair trends—are all about natural, just-rolled out of bed tresses that look like they’re on vacation (even if you’re not).
Arguably the [...]
Sophia Bush is getting into a little friendly competition with none other than Indiana Jones (okay, Harrison Ford) and it’s all taking place on Facebook.
The eco-activist, who’s geared her Twitter at all-things environmental, recently teamed up with the Environmental Protection Agency and DoSomething.Org to create a Facebook game that has bigger benefits than a flourishing [...]
(Beyond Pesticides, April 27, 2011) Whole Foods Market has introduced its Eco-Scale™ Rating System – an industry-first set of tiered, green household cleaning standards – to help shoppers make smarter, greener choices. Product ingredients will be evaluated and those that do not meet the standards set, such as the antimicrobial triclosan, phosphates and phlalates, will [...]
It’s that time of year again. You know, the time of year where it’s sunny outside with flowers blooming and you’re stuck inside doing the spring cleaning. What’s even worse, however, is that you might be cleaning with products that are damaging the environment even if those products claim otherwise.
Greenwashing (the act of claiming a [...]
(Beyond Pesticides, April 26, 2011) One year after the President’s Cancer Panel released its groundbreaking report highlighting environmental causes of cancer, the non-profit Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) released a new report, Dangerous Exposure: Farmworker Children and Pesticides. The report focuses on farmworker children, examining birth defects, neurological and behavior disorders, respiratory disease, as [...]
Today the earth is 4.54 billion years old (and we’re three!) and we think that the planet deserves a little something for that special achievement. Something like your participation in Earth Day.
This year’s Earth Day theme is A Billion Acts of Green, and it’s all about making some year-round changes that will improve our planet [...]
As soon as Greenpeace finishes one campaign (often in success), they’re onto the next, and this time they’re putting their attention on Facebook and the greenhouse gas emissions that come from the massive social network.
It’s called the Unfriend Coal campaign and it has an unarguably good goal: To get Facebook to switch from coal to [...]
These past few years, few people came to visit. Friends and colleagues dropped away as Dad's dementia deepened; even those in the organization he had helped found, Science for Peace, rarely came by. And the work he did at the...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 20, 2011) Last Thursday, U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced legislation to update and modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) which has allowed tens of thousands of toxic substances onto the marketplace with little or no testing. The new ‘Safe Chemicals Act of 2011,’ utilizing risk assessment methology, [...]A few months ago, it seemed that my father was going to fade away unremembered save by those of us who loved him most. Now we’re wondering if the room reserved for the memorial is big enough. That’s been the...I'm in Toronto visiting my mother and getting ready for a major gathering at the University of Toronto to honor my father, so I won't be posting much this week. Still, I couldn’t resist trying to describe yesterday’s weather. The...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 18, 2011) Citing civil rights and labor law violations, along with pesticide misuse, a group of 15 Mexican guest workers employed through the H-2A guest worker visa program are suing Newport, TN-based tomato grower Fish Farms. They are charging the company with a series of abuses including spraying pesticides near their trailers, [...]Having vented my fill yesterday (and everyone else’s) about how hard I found it simply to get to the class at all, much less with the right chapter under my belt, I shall turn to the far more trivial matter...I dedicate this one to all my gardening fellows who know they’ve planted something in the wrong place, or to all those who have lost track of a seed or two: it could be worse. If you don’t believe me,...