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Lead-ers of Tomorrow Lead levels in toxic toys were off the charts		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:04 AM on 19 Sep 2007 In reaction to the recent lead-painted-toy recalls, no doubt some laissez-faire non-parents shrugged it off -- when pretty much everything is tainted with toxins, what's a little lead in paint? Except that, well, it was more than just a little lead. Some of the toys recalled by Mattel this summer contained 180 times the legally allowable level of the heavy metal, while some kids' jewelry sold by ...
Topics: green living, health, news, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

Sex Education A primer on chemicals, fertility, and reproduction	Emily Gertz	18 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Illustration: Keri Rosebraugh Feeling unusually infertile lately? You're not alone: according to a December 2005 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 12 percent of American couples reported having a hard time conceiving a child and bearing it to term in 2002, up 20 percent from the 6.1 million couples reporting such "impaired fecundity" in 1995. Although the re ...
Topics: green living, health, parenting, sex, toxics (all these topics)

Pick Your Poison Pesticides up to no good, says new research		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 18 Sep 2007 A decrease in pesticide availability led to an associated decrease in suicide rates in Sri Lanka, researchers publishing in the International Journal of Epidemiology have concluded. In 1995 and 1998, restrictions were put into place on importation and sales of highly toxic pesticides in Sri Lanka; in 2005, the country's suicide rate was half what it had been in 1995. "Changes in the availability o ...
Topics: agriculture, health, news, Sri Lanka, toxics (all these topics)

What to Inspect When You're Expecting A handy health checklist for pregnancy	Amy Linn	18 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Talk about a double whammy. It's challenging enough to be green when you're solo, and then pregnancy comes along and gives you twice the eco-angst (not to mention more hormones than you know what to do with). Photo: iStockphoto The cause for alarm is real: pregnancy is the most critical time for establishing your baby's well being. It's also the time when you're vulnerable to the alphabet stew of ...
Topics: food, green living, health, parenting (all these topics)

Put the Cure in Mercury Mercury contamination in fish declines when emissions go down		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:41 PM on 18 Sep 2007 Mercury contamination of waterways and marine life doesn't have to be an ongoing problem -- all we have to do is limit industrial mercury emissions. Easy! After a seven-year experiment in a Canada lake, researchers publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that mercury concentrations in fish would decline relatively quickly if their ecosystem w ...
Topics: coal, fishing, food, health, news, toxics (all these topics)

Nuggets and Hummers and fish sticks, oh my! PETA VP argues vegetarianism is the best way to help the planet	Grist	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, aquaculture, climate, deforestation, fishing, food, health, sustainable ag, vegetarianism and veganism, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

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 (all these topics)

Everybody Can Do Something Parenting photos and advice from Grist readers and staff		17 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Click photo to launch slide show. To help kick off our series on parenting and health, we asked Grist readers and staff to send us photos of their little ones, along with advice on how to weave a green outlook into everyday life. Here's what a few of them had to say -- share your own ideas in the comments section below.
Topics: health, parenting (all these topics)

Black Lung Is the New Black Rates of black lung disease double in a decade		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 14 Sep 2007 Rates of black lung disease have doubled in the last decade, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The disease, which is caused by inhaling coal dust, now occurs in almost 10 percent of coal miners who work 25 or more years underground, as opposed to about 4 percent a decade ago. Safety standards enacted in 1969 were supposed to prevent black lung altoget ...
Topics: coal, energy, health, mining, news (all these topics)

Permanent Depress Top 10 most polluted places on earth tallied by Blacksmith Institute		13 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:11 PM on 13 Sep 2007 China, India, and Russia are each home to two of the most polluted places on earth, with sites in Azerbaijan, Peru, Ukraine, and Zambia rounding out the top 10, says the second annual tally by the nonprofit Blacksmith Institute. Some 12 million people total live in the affected areas, which are tainted largely by chemical-weapons manufacturing, heavy-metal and coal mining, and ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, toxics, water pollution (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)

It's about damned time ConAgra: No more toxic fake butter	Tom Philpott	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: health, food, toxics, business (all these topics)

Veni, Vidi, Ventricle Doctors suggest global warming could lead to more heart problems		05 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:50 AM on 05 Sep 2007 Does global warming make you heartsick? Oh wait, we mistyped. Retry: Does global warming make your heart sick? Some doctors think it might. From the Archives Put Some More Lead on the Barbie. Mattel recalls another batch of lead-painted toys. Your Opinion Is Wrong. National Park Service may ignore public opinion on snowmobiles in parks. Play It Again, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, news (all these topics)

Put Some More Lead on the Barbie Mattel recalls another batch of lead-painted toys		05 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:11 AM on 05 Sep 2007 Toy giant Mattel on Tuesday issued its third round of major recalls in recent weeks for a variety of its toys that contained "impermissible levels of lead," according to the company, including some Barbie play sets and Fisher-Price toys. In all, the most recent round of recalls covers some 840,000 items. "We've worked very hard on [testing toys]," said Robert A ...
Topics: business, consumerism, health, news (all these topics)

'Popcorn lung' and the collapse of government oversight While the FDA and EPA look away, noxious fumes from fake butter wreck lungs	Tom Philpott	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: food, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Arsenic and a New Case Drinking water across the globe contaminated by arsenic, says research		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 4:15 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Some 137 million people across the globe unknowingly consume water with unsafe levels of arsenic, according to new research. The odorless, tasteless chemical occurs naturally in soil, but also reaches drinking water from agricultural and industrial sources and the vials of paperback-mystery villains. Arsenic can lead to lung, bladder, and skin cancer and is "the mo ...
Topics: health, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

News You Already Knew		28 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 3:56 PM on 28 Aug 2007 Not surprising: Rescue and recovery workers at ground zero have developed asthma at a rate that is 12 times what would be expected for adults, according to findings released yesterday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. sources:� The New York Times, Associated Press From the Archives Attack of the Helpful Tomatoes. Radiation breeding of plants is way better than it sounds. Feel the Glass B ...
Topics: health, New York, news (all these topics)

Dave's Second Law of Sustainability Politics	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, health, water pollution (all these topics)

Gardens in the hood Urban agriculture does more than provide healthy food for those who need it	David Roberts	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: food, gardening, health, placemaking, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Green movements or green paint China's central government faces a choice between democracy and eco-collapse	Jon Rynn	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: air pollution, China, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, international politics, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Says WHO? We're all gonna die		24 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 3:55 PM on 24 Aug 2007 Look out below: Infectious diseases are emerging faster than at any time in history, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a report on Thursday that urged closer global cooperation to tackle the growing health threats of the 21st century. The WHO underlined that the threats knew no boundaries and included not only epidemics, but also foodborne diseases, chemical, biological or nuclear accidents or attacks, industrial poll ...
Topics: health (all these topics)

Speedy urban living is healthier And New York City is the healthiest of all	Gar Lipow	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: health, New York, New York City, placemaking (all these topics)

Unable to Flush With Success Sanitation a big problem worldwide, says U.N.		20 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Unable to Flush With Success Sanitation a big problem worldwide, says U.N. The United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, but we won't wait until then to ply you with depressing statistics: One-third of the global population has no access to a toilet. In 38 African countries, more children under the age of 5 die from diarrhea than HIV/AIDS. The World Health Organization estimates that 80 percent of ...
Topics: health, news, United Nations (all these topics)

This Gives Us Paws Flame retardants linked to thyroid disease in house cats		17 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
This Gives Us Paws Flame retardants linked to thyroid disease in house cats Thyroid disease in house cats may be linked to common flame retardants called PBDEs, according to U.S. EPA researchers. In a small study of 23 cats, all the felines had blood concentrations of the chemical 20 to 100 times higher than average U.S. adults -- who, it oughta be noted, carry the highest human PBDE load in the world. PBDEs first beg ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, news, toxics (all these topics)

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