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From Treehugger to Kidhugger Reflections on protecting your offspring without losing your sanity	Amy Linn	17 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Kidhuggers. It's a gag-me kind of word, too precious to be catchy. And it certainly won't ever replace the slur-cum-badge-of-honor for enviros -- treehuggers. But maybe it should. Illustration: Keri Rosebraugh The green movement has never been about people with an overfondness for bark and flora. Instead, it's based on a natural protectiveness, an urge to defend all the vulner ...
Topics: education, green living, health, parenting (all these topics)

Brood Awakenings A Grist special series on parenting and health		17 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Got kids? Got thoughts on kids? Come on over to our parenting blog to chat. Among environmentalists, a common rallying cry is to protect the planet "for our grandchildren." It's a lovely sentiment, and a powerful notion -- that the choices you make today affect generations yet to come. But what about the generation spattering spaghetti sauce on your walls right now? In this special series, Grist turns its fo ...
Topics: education, green living, health, parenting, special series (all these topics)

Schoolhouse Walks Municipalities try to encourage students to walk to school		11 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:21 PM on 11 Sep 2007 Cities across the U.S. are turning their attention not only to green education, but to how students get to school. Forty years ago, half of all students walked or bicycled to the schoolhouse. Today, that number has dropped to 15 percent, while 60 percent of youths are toted in a car. The shift, brought on by fears of traffic hazards and stranger danger, has contributed to increases in o ...
Topics: education, green living, health, news, parenting (all these topics)

That's it. Now I am angry Cats are the canaries of PBDEs	Eric de Place	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This is my cat, George. He is fat and grouchy, but I love him. He likes to sun himself on the patio. This is a link to Sightline's research on PBDEs, toxic flame retardants. A couple of years ago, we conducted a study of PBDEs and found high concentrations in the breast milk of nursing mothers throughout the Pacific Northwest. It was bad news. And what's the connection to George? Well, new scientific research shows that PBDEs are making house cats sick. ( ...
Topics: animal welfare, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

Evian Is Just Evil Misspelled Hatin' on plastic water bottles is all the rage		15 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Evian Is Just Evil Misspelled Hatin' on plastic water bottles is all the rage Forget SUVs and Styrofoam: hip-to-the-times green folk are directing their ire at plastic water bottles. In the last few months, the energy-intensiveness of bottled water -- 1.5 million barrels of oil go into making the bottles for the U.S. market each year, and oodles more to transporting the H2O -- has seeped into ...
Topics: food, green living, health, news, recycling, water pollution (all these topics)

Lead, Swallow, or Get Out of the Play Mattel adds to recall of millions of lead-painted toys		15 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Lead, Swallow, or Get Out of the Play Mattel adds to recall of millions of lead-painted toys In yet another blow to Big Toy, Mattel Inc. yesterday recalled some 9 million China-made playthings. While most were sets containing potentially swallowable magnets, the toymaker also pulled 253,000 lead-painted die-cast cars. Earlier this month, Mattel pulled an additional 1.5 million toys thought to be colored wit ...
Topics: China, consumerism, green living, health, news (all these topics)

Life's a beach And then you die	Kate Sheppard	11 Aug 2007	Gristmill
According to a new report released this week by the Natural Resources Defense Council, there were 25,000 beach closings or 'swimming advisory days' in 2006. That's 28 percent more than in 2005, and the highest number since they started keeping records on that sort of thing. Some 1,300 days of closings were attributed to sewage spills and overflows, and even more were closed because of 'fecal contamination,' which reminds me of that gross-yet-informative Flushie video t ...
Topics: green living, health, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Prints: Not Charming Laser printers can emit high levels of unhealthy small particles, study says		02 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Prints: Not Charming Laser printers can emit high levels of unhealthy small particles, study says Remember how computers were going to usher in the Paperless Office? We so should have done that. An Australian study has found that many laser printers emit high levels of small particles that can be harmful to human health, with the highest-emitting machines rivaling the small-particle pollution of ci ...
Topics: green living, health, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

Frigi-Dare On refrigerator downsizing	Umbra Fisk	23 Jul 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Two of our favorite Brit-coms are Keeping Up Appearances and As Time Goes By. It is hard for an American not to remark that in both households, which seem quite affluent, the refrigerator is short, and fits beneath the kitchen counter: nothing so grand as what passes for normal in American kitchens. Do most Brits and Europeans in fact have in their kitchens only counter-height refrigerators? And if so, are they therefore ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy efficiency, food, green living, health, shopping (all these topics)

Too, Too Sullied Flesh Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride		20 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Too, Too Sullied Flesh Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride The next time you chomp a hamburger, think of this: the process of getting that beef to your bun may have spewed more greenhouse-gas emissions than leaving all your house lights blazing while taking a three-hour joyride in your car. Researchers looked at b ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, news (all these topics)

Give a hoot, offset a poot It was only a matter of time	Katharine Wroth	19 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Remember when Umbra wrote about offsetting flatulence in 2005? Turns out she was ahead of her time.
Topics: green living, carbon offsets, climate, health, advice (all these topics)

Selling ourselves short The incredible shrinking American	Kate Sheppard	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Could our neglect of health and the environment be making us shorter? According to recent studies, chaps in Holland are an average of two inches taller than American men these days, whereas in the 19th century, our lads towered an average two and a half inches over them and all of the rest of western Europe. From the AP: It's not that being tall actually makes you smarter, richer or healthier. It's that the same things that make you tall -- a nutritious diet, go ...
Topics: green living, health (all these topics)

Airing on the Side of Caution Chemical dangers to air-breathing animals overlooked, researchers say		13 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Airing on the Side of Caution Chemical dangers to air-breathing animals overlooked, researchers say A new study in Science says regulators have overlooked the effects that thousands of chemicals could have on air-breathing organisms. Such as, for instance, people. In general, regulators study how chemicals accumulate in aquatic-based food chains; they look at how toxics dissolve in water and ...
Topics: food, green living, health, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

Ka-Boom On fireworks	Umbra Fisk	02 Jul 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Our family has always lit a fair amount of fireworks for our 4th of July celebration. I would like to encourage my family and friends to find other ways to celebrate due to the CO2 emissions that will result. However, I don't really know how much carbon is emitted. I already have to deal with the fact that many in my family are not taking climate change seriously, so I want to be knowledgeable when I state my case. Donna Elk Grove, Cali ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, green living, health (all these topics)

Spit on Polish Community advocates focus on dangers of nail salons		27 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Spit on Polish Community advocates focus on dangers of nail salons They say a rising tide lifts all boats, and the rising tide of eco-awareness is now lifting ... nail salons. The fume-filled shops are getting attention from groups eager to expose their health risks, which can include cancer and birth defects. The U.S. EPA has given two Seattle-area nonprofits a $100,000 grant for a three-year "Toxic Beau ...
Topics: green living, health, news, Seattle, toxics (all these topics)

Drugs busted Communities taking action for clean water	Erik Hoffner	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Communities around the country are getting wise to the threat posed by the common practice of flushing old drugs, which inevitably end up in rivers after passing straight through sewage treatment facilities, feminizing fish, mutating frogs, and worse, probably. One recent effort in coastal Maine collected hundreds of pounds of drugs for proper disposal, but this impressive total was crushed by another grassroots 'clean sweep' that collected over a ton of pharmaceutic ...
Topics: green living, health, toxics, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Pun in the sun EWG takes a look at how sunscreens stack up	Kate Sheppard	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
As the summer sun starts to heat up in Seattle, I've been wondering what sort of environmentally sound sunscreen options are out there to protect my pale, pale flesh from certain scorching. I considered writing to Umbra under a pseudonym to get an answer, but the Environmental Working Group jumped on the subject before I could with their new guide to both the efficacy and the environmental health cred of more than 780 different sunscreens. Sweet.In their databas ...
Topics: green living, green products, health, toxics (all these topics)

The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study		18 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Beak In Review West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study The West Nile virus soldiers on, declares a report published yesterday in Nature. Eight years after the virus left the West Nile and made its way to the U.S. Northeast, chickadee populations in the region have dropped 53 percent, while Eastern bluebird populations have been diminished by 44 percent. American crows have been hit the harde ...
Topics: green living, health, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Not On My Botch -- Uh, Watch Katrina refugees say FEMA trailers making them sick		17 May 2007	Daily Grist
Not On My Botch -- Uh, Watch Katrina refugees say FEMA trailers making them sick As states in the Southeastern U.S. brace for this year's hurricane season, new Federal Emergency Management Agency head David Paulison has a promise: "You won't see what happened with Katrina happen again in this country.'' Paulison assured a crowd of emergency responders in Florida that the &q ...
Topics: climate, environmental justice, green living, health, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Trouble With a Capital B Chemicals play a big role in breast-cancer cases, says report		15 May 2007	Daily Grist
Trouble With a Capital B Chemicals play a big role in breast-cancer cases, says report You know how Tammy Wynette said sometimes it's hard to be a woman? Well, it just got harder: a new report finds a potential link between breast cancer and 216 chemicals, including 35 common air pollutants and 73 food or consumer-product ingredients. Racking up evidence from hundreds of existing lab tests, researchers concluded that en ...
Topics: green living, health, news, toxics (all these topics)

Care and feeding at 35,000 feet When is pizza not a turkey sandwich?	Carl Flatow	15 May 2007	Gristmill
What we have available to eat is controlled by different businesses in different ways. Whether they are responsive to our needs and desires is something about which Americans can and should be at lot more vocal. We arrived at the boarding gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport about an hour before the scheduled departure time, stripped of any liquids over 3.4 ounces not stored in a clear, quart-size, zip-top plastic bag. I went to the service desk to ask the air ...
Topics: food, green living, health, travel (all these topics)

Fat rats may be evidence that we're all doomed Are our standards for exposure to toxics all wrong?	Kate Sheppard	12 May 2007	Gristmill
An intriguing new study published recently on Environmental Health News challenges the long-held assumption on which all regulatory toxicology testing is based, and poses new questions about what -- and how much -- of certain toxic substances merit 'OK' exposure. Toxicology tests are usually performed by giving subjects (usually rodents) high doses of a substance and monitoring the biological response. The assumption has long been that what these high doses do to ...
Topics: green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

The denialist deck of cards A video you simply must see	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
Yikes. Everyone must watch this video, which comes to us from DeSmogBlog: And on a related note, this seems like a good time to link to The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts. You will see that these perpetual, maddening arguments about global warming are not new. The techniques are the same and the goals are the same: protecting industry. All the more reason not to feed the trolls. And ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, health, lying liars (all these topics)

Speaking of fake 'butter' and industrial corn ... Orville Redenbacher must be stopped	Tom Philpott	11 May 2007	Gristmill
My latest Victual Reality column looks at how perfectly wonderful foods like corn and butter get twisted up by food-industry marketers and flavor engineers, confusing people and often sending them scurrying in search of dubious, unhealthy, artificial substitutes -- which the food industry is only too willing to provide. As if on cue, out comes a New York Times piece on the horrors of microwave popcorn. Those unpleasant fumes that cloud the office when one of your co-wo ...
Topics: food, green living, health, insanity (all these topics)

Just because it's awesome	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Occasionally I like to revisit one of the greatest magazine feature leads ever written: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. Perfect.
Topics: food, green living, health (all these topics)

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