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OK, We're Moving to Iceland
World Health Organization ranks countries' environmental health |
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14 Jun 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| OK, We're Moving to Iceland World Health Organization ranks countries' environmental health To those who think environmentalism is all about prioritizing starfish over humans, read on: Cleaning up the globe's air and water could save 13 million lives every year, according to the World Health Organization. Yesterday, WHO released a country-by-country analysis of health issues in 192 nations ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, health, water pollution, World Health Organization (all these topics) |
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Tim Lambert ...
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David Roberts |
06 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ... dismantles NYT columnist John Tierney's latest attack on Rachel Carson. |
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| Topics: books, environmental movement, health, toxics (all these topics) |
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Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Pesticide-Free Garden
Pesticide exposure increases risk of Parkinson's disease, study says |
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01 Jun 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Pesticide-Free Garden Pesticide exposure increases risk of Parkinson's disease, study says A new study from researchers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland concludes that pesticide exposure increases the risk of getting Parkinson's disease, a degenerative condition affecting the nervous system. Patients from five European countries participated in the study, published in the Journal ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, health, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Beak In Review
West Nile virus hitting bird populations hard, says new study |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Not On My Botch -- Uh, Watch
Katrina refugees say FEMA trailers making them sick |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental justice, green living, health, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Trouble With a Capital B
Chemicals play a big role in breast-cancer cases, says report |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: food, green living, health, travel (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, toxics (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, green living, health, lying liars (all these topics) |
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Oxy Frontin
Indigenous tribe sues oil company over pollution in Peru |
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11 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Oxy Frontin Indigenous tribe sues oil company over pollution in Peru A group of indigenous tribe members from Peru has filed suit against Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum in a U.S. court, claiming that the company's operations in the Amazon from 1975 to 1999 contaminated their food and water supplies, hurt their health, and led to the death of a child. The company -- known as Oxy to friends and foes alike -- & ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, business, health, news, Peru (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: food, green living, health, insanity (all these topics) |
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Good As Gold -- No, Better
Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer readers' questions |
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11 May 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Could you say more about the indigenous people of Suriname with whom you have been working so closely? How many different groups or ethnicities are there? In what kinds of environments do they live? How do they relate to the plants and animals of their environment, which are as threatened as they are by the toxic pollution caused by the mining operations? ... |
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| Topics: health, InterActivist, interview, mining, Suriname (all these topics) |
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Just because it's awesome
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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. |
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| Topics: food, green living, health (all these topics) |
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Bien Suriname
Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer Grist's questions |
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07 May 2007 |
InterActivist |
| Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? We are co-directors of the Suriname Indigenous Health Fund. What does your organization do? Our organization supplies technology and support to indigenous communities that are impacted by gold mining. The communities we work with live in the rainforest deep in the interior of Surina ... |
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| Topics: health, InterActivist, interview, mining, Suriname (all these topics) |
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I Believe the Children Are Our Lab Rats
Pesticides could make kids dumb, diesel emissions make them sick |
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07 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| I Believe the Children Are Our Lab Rats Pesticides could make kids dumb, diesel emissions make them sick You know how we say we shouldn't wreck the planet for "future generations"? Turns out we're wrecking them too! A study from Indiana University says children conceived in the summer score lower on tests in school, and suggests that in-womb pesticide exposure may be to blame. "To recognize that what w ... |
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| Topics: green living, health, news, parenting (all these topics) |
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Pollan continues to fail to ever write anything less than awesome
The new NYT piece does not disappoint |
David Roberts |
27 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I can't believe no Gristian has yet commented on the latest Michael Pollan piece in the NYT. What, is saying 'Pollan has a new piece and it's awesome' getting tedious? This one focuses on the farm bill and how it makes us fat: A public-health researcher from Mars might legitimately wonder why a nation faced with what its surgeon general has called 'an epidemic' of obesity would at the same time be in the business of subsidizing the production of high-fructose corn ... |
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| Topics: food, green living, health, shameless self-promotion (all these topics) |
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How Much Wood Could a Wood Check Chuck?
California restricts formaldehyde in wood products |
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27 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| How Much Wood Could a Wood Check Chuck? California restricts formaldehyde in wood products It may be a land of earthquakes, smog, and drought, but California's doing something right. In the latest in a string of forward-thinking green policies, state air regulators passed restrictions on formaldehyde in wood products that are the restrictiest in the world. "There is no safe threshold for this carcinoge ... |
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| Topics: California, green living, health, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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At Least the Couch Is Clean
DuPont, 3M criticized for production of 'probable' carcinogen |
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26 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| At Least the Couch Is Clean DuPont, 3M criticized for production of "probable" carcinogen Public furor is simmering over a chemical used in Teflon, Scotchgard, and other miracles of non-stick, stain-resistant living. Protesters picketed DuPont's annual shareholder meeting in Delaware yesterday, upset over the company's environmental and labor policies -- including its production of PFOA (perf ... |
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| Topics: business, grassroots activism, health, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Now This Is Corn-fusing
Study says ethanol fuel could cause more health problems than gasoline |
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18 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Now This Is Corn-fusing Study says ethanol fuel could cause more health problems than gasoline Time to trot out Alanis, cuz this is what the kids call "ironic": a study from Stanford University says widespread use of ethanol in vehicles could have serious health effects. Atmospheric scientist Mark Jacobson ran computer models comparing air quality in 2020 based on use of both gasoline and E85, a blend of 85 percent ... |
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| Topics: energy, ethanol, health, news (all these topics) |
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Message on a Bottle
On aluminum bottles |
Umbra Fisk |
04 Apr 2007 |
Ask Umbra |
| Umbra, Are aluminum bottles safer than Nalgene bottles? I'm looking at getting Sigg bottles for my self, wife, and son. Vendor agnostic, are the materials used by aluminum-only vendors safer than those that incorporate Lexan? Chris Webber Seattle, Wash. Dearest Chris, I swear, I pick questions and only then do I notice that yet again I have chosen one from Seattle. It is not a conspiracy. I just wanted a question to go with our r ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, green products, health, toxics (all these topics) |
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Deca Dent
Washington state first in the nation to ban PBDEs |
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04 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Deca Dent Washington state first in the nation to ban PBDEs Washington state will be the first in the nation to phase out nasty fireproofing chemicals called PBDEs, which show up in the bodies of people and wildlife and may cause neurological damage. Yesterday, the state Senate passed a measure that will eventually ban home items containing deca, the most commonly used PBDE; the House had already approved the bill, and no ... |
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| Topics: health, news, toxics, Washington (all these topics) |
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Then There's the Short Term
Long-term radiation risks lower than some daily hazards, study finds |
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03 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Then There's the Short Term Long-term radiation risks lower than some daily hazards, study finds Living in fear of a nuclear meltdown? Now you can relax! A new study says the long-term risks faced by survivors of two of the world's most notorious nuclear episodes -- the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 1945 bombings of Japan -- are lower than the risks caused by urban air pollution, obesity, and smoking. ... |
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| Topics: energy, green living, health, news, nuclear power (all these topics) |
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Green consumerism: Getting the rat poison out of the baby food
So to speak |
Gar Lipow |
02 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| No, as far as I know, no baby-food maker ever used rat poison as an ingredient. The point is that we don't have to worry about it; if you have an infant switching off milk, you can shop the baby food counter confident that none of the choices will contain rat poison. However, as a consumer, buying 'green' is not quite so easy. Hastening the end of our civilization is a routine ingredient in most of the things we buy. By spending a little extra time and money, we can some ... |
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| Topics: food, green living, green products, health (all these topics) |
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More beef = fewer babies?
Growth promoters in beef may damage sperm |
Julia Olmstead |
29 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| As reported by the BBC, a University of Rochester study found recently that men whose mothers ate lots of beef during their pregnancies had lower sperm counts than the sons of women who ate little or no beef while pregnant: Among sons of mothers who ate a lot of beef, 17.7 percent had a sperm concentration below the World Health Organization sub-fertility threshold of 20 million sperm per millilitre of seminal fluid. The figure for the sons of lower beef consumers ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, green living, health (all these topics) |
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Punishment for gluttons?
Rising costs affect consumers |
Clark Williams-Derry |
28 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| One of the side effects of the rapid increase in ethanol consumption in the U.S. is that corn -- the main feedstock for ethanol -- has gotten much more expensive. Just take a look at the futures markets: the July 2007 corn contract started climbing last fall, which was about the time people started to realize just how quickly demand for corn-based ethanol was growing. Obviously, rising costs trickle down to consumers in all sorts of ways. If corn prices st ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, energy, ethanol, food, green living, health (all these topics) |
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