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Are you Feeding your Kids Twinkies for breakfast?
By Eartheasy.com, Posted December 12th, 2011Popular children’s cereals are overloaded with sugar, according to a new study.
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BPA Levels Spike with Canned Soup
By Eartheasy.com, Posted November 28th, 2011BPA levels rise over 1200% after eating a can of soup each day for five days…
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Why TV for Children Under Two is a Bad Idea
By Eartheasy.com, Posted October 25th, 2011Unstructured playtime is more valuable for the developing brain than any electronic media exposure…
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7 Ways Organic Farms Outperform Conventional Farms
By Greg Seaman, Posted October 24th, 2011Sustainable, organic farming practices are the best way to feed the future…
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The Healing Power of a Walk in the Woods
By Greg Seaman, Eartheasy.com, Posted July 5th, 2011“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”- John Muir
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7 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Formaldehyde
By Eartheasy.com, Posted June 20th, 2011Formaldehyde, found in consumer and building products, is now classified as a carcinogen…
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Why We Should Avoid Backyard Trash Burning
By Eartheasy.com, Posted June 9th, 2011The nature of household trash has changed over the past fifty years…
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Prenatal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Lower IQs in Children
By Eartheasy.com, Posted April 27th, 2011Three new studies find evidence linking organophosphate pesticides with adverse effects on cognitive development in children…
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Cadmium in kids’ jewelry may pose poison risk
By Eartheasy.com, Posted March 22nd, 2011Cadmium is being used as a lead substitute, and its use in the marketplace is not yet regulated for children’s toys and jewelry.
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Cancer-causing chemical found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities
By Eartheasy, Posted December 21st, 2010“I was expecting to find hexavalent chromium in some of the cities we checked, but I didn’t expect it to be so widespread,” said Rebecca Sutton, lead author of the study.
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Pumping ions: gyms generate clean energy from muscle power
By Eartheasy.com, Posted December 15th, 2010Developments in human-generated electricity are laying the groundwork for future gyms which will be entirely client-powered.
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Everything you thought you knew about food is wrong
By Alice Hart-Davis, The Daily Mail, UK, Posted December 3rd, 2010Fiber’s bad for you. Fat’s healthy. And five-a-day is a gimmick to make fruit and veg firms rich. Or so claims a remarkable new book…
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Cheap ‘teabag’ water filter could save millions
By Eartheasy.com, Posted November 18th, 2010The simple technology allows for the teabag to be placed in a canister designed to fit the neck of most bottles, and after filtering one liter of contaminated water the teabag is discarded.
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Is Gulf Coast seafood safe to eat?
By Eartheasy.com, Posted November 9th, 2010The FDA says “yes”, but more sampling and follow-up studies are needed.
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US legislation proposes chemical safety reform in consumer products
By Eartheasy.com, Posted November 5th, 2010The “Safe Chemicals Act of 2010” requires safety testing of all industrial chemicals, and puts the burden on industry to prove that chemicals are safe in order stay on the market.
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Soils and Souls: The promise of The Land
By Robert Jensen, Posted October 18th, 2010We must ask how we can construct an economy that can balance what is biologically and physically possible with what is socially and ethically desirable.
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Medicines from Nature
By Joanna Eede, Resurgence Magazine, Posted September 10th, 2010From painkillers to malaria treatments, Western medicine has much to thank tribal peoples for. But unless we protect their land rights, we will lose not only their vast knowledge of medicinal plants but also many cures we have yet to discover, warns Joanna Eede.
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Environmentally caused cancers are ‘grossly underestimated’
By Marla Cone, Environmental Health News, Posted July 19th, 2010Outdated estimates fail to take into account many newer discoveries about people’s vulnerability to chemicals.
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6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World
By Paul Stamets, Posted July 7th, 2010Profound solutions which benefit humankind may come from seemingly insignificant species…
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6 reasons to avoid using “weed ‘n feed” on your lawn
By Eartheasy, Posted June 29th, 2010For the health of our families, neighbors and our environment, pesticide use should be a measure of last resort. Especially when there are safe alternatives.
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