The green movement has taken a stand on Artificial Christmas Trees and it’s that they’re “not-good”. They use oil based raw materials and are essentially non-renewable. In contrast, the Natural Christmas Trees are made from soil, water & sunlight, and are 100% recyclable. Also, instead of a factory the real ones are of course grown on tree farms (and not the result of any deforestation activity as some erroneously believe).
Back in August, 2007 the Organic Test Kitchen created a post dealing with the popular anitmicrobial Triclosan. Now the Washington Post published their take on this chemical. Here’s the highlights
The Milwaukee Sentinel published an article that said among other things that choosing to eat organic food and then loading up these groceries into a gas guzzling SUV is nothing less than hypocrisy. Does the author Alysha Witwicki have a point? Well yes she does, but it is a point that has gone astray.. Now, she’s correct in that one aspect of eating organic is about protecting our environment..we don’t support the use of chemicals on our farms and subsequently on our foods & in our water. We don’t like exposing ourselves, the earth and the [...click to contimue reading...]
The issues surrounding genetically modified (GM) foods are ones filled with passion, disinformation and big money (sort of sounds like the growth hormone controversy with milk doesn’t it?). To some, this represents a huge advancement in food technology, for others, it’s as if Dr. Frankenstein were spreading millions of his little monsters throughout the globe and into our food supply. Well, here’s what we do know. First and most basic is that life in it’s physical form develops and is maintained per the code inherent in an organism’s DNA (aka it’s genome). Make some changes to this code and instead of brown [...click to contimue reading...]
Right now, if you used a conventional deodorant this morning, you may actually have a biocide known as Triclosan slathered all over your arm pits. The purpose of this compound is to kill off the bacteria that creates body odor. For a list of reference information about Triclosan check out the EPA’s Pesticides Page “Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Index for Triclosan (I’m not kidding, Pesticides)…Huh.. Triclosan is of course one of those “nice” names given to complex chemicals. So to be more accurate, you actually have something in the chlorinated diphenyl ether group slathered all over your [...click to contimue reading...]
