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The ED you should really be worried about: Endocrine disruption Environmental scientist Theo Colborn warns about the chemicals all around us	Grist	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: health, toxics (all these topics)

That's it. Now I am angry Cats are the canaries of PBDEs	Eric de Place	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: animal welfare, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

Global warming ...	David Roberts	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health (all these topics)

Peekaboo, ICU Hospitals opt for less-toxic medical equipment		16 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Peekaboo, ICU Hospitals opt for less-toxic medical equipment As the wee tots who end up in neonatal intensive care tend to be a bit on the vulnerable side, leading medical organizations are urging hospitals to swap medical equipment containing icky chemical DEHP -- which can include IV tubing and blood bags -- for safer alternatives. The good news: some DEHP-free products are cheaper and lighter than their toxic counterparts. The bad ...
Topics: health, news, 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)

But what about the economy?	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill

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

The energy of crowds	David Roberts	15 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, energy efficiency, health (all these topics)

Life's a beach And then you die	Kate Sheppard	11 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, health, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

That Sounds Perhaps Not So Clean In need of a new solvent, dry cleaners turn to petroleum		10 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
That Sounds Perhaps Not So Clean In need of a new solvent, dry cleaners turn to petroleum As dry cleaners stop using the solvent perchloroethylene, a suspected carcinogen that's being phased out in California, New York, Toronto, and elsewhere, some are choosing a surprising replacement: petroleum-based solvents. Um ... what? Turns out petroleum was the solvent of choice in the industry's early years, un ...
Topics: Big Oil, fashion, greenwashing, health, news, oil (all these topics)

BPA: Here to Stay? Controversial panel will decide whether bisphenol A poses a health risk		08 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
BPA: Here to Stay? Controversial panel will decide whether bisphenol A poses a health risk Last week, several dozen scientists issued a consensus statement that ubiquitous chemical compound bisphenol A likely poses health and reproductive risks to humans. This week, an expert panel will finalize a report for the U.S. National Toxicology Program on whether humans should indeed try to stay away from BPA; ...
Topics: health, news, politics, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

Are Those Bisphenol Genes You're Wearing? New study confirms that bisphenol A can mess with animal genetics		02 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Are Those Bisphenol Genes You're Wearing? New study confirms that bisphenol A can mess with animal genetics Know what time it is? It's time to check in on bisphenol A, the chemical in many plastics that gets creepier by the day. Despite continuing claims by the chemical industry that products containing the compound -- which can include baby bottles, water bottles, toys, dental sealants, and fo ...
Topics: food, health, news, parenting, scientific research, toxics (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)

Organo Failure California study suggests link between autism and pesticide exposure		31 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Organo Failure California study suggests link between autism and pesticide exposure A "very preliminary" study from the California Department of Public Health suggests that higher rates of autism can be seen in children whose mothers were exposed to two organochlorine pesticides still in use in the United States, endosulfan and dicofol. Organochlorine pesticides, which take a long time to break down in the environment ...
Topics: agriculture, health, toxics (all these topics)

We Wouldn't Kid About This Environmental problems kill some 4 million kids a year, WHO says		30 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
We Wouldn't Kid About This Environmental problems kill some 4 million kids a year, WHO says Gloom and doom alert: About 4 million kids younger than age 5 die every year due to environmental problems including air pollution, water pollution, and chemical exposure, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. In fact, more than 30 percent of illness and death in kids due to disease can be attributed to environmental factors, the ...
Topics: health, news (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)

All Kinds of Sickening Congress grills FEMA on toxic post-hurricane trailers		20 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
All Kinds of Sickening Congress grills FEMA on toxic post-hurricane trailers The media have reported for at least two months that the trailers used to house refugees from hurricanes Katrina and Rita have been giving off fumes that are making some people sick. Now it seems the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has fended off those accusations, has known about the toxic trou ...
Topics: Congress, environmental justice, health, news, politics, severe weather (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)

Just When You Thought It Was Safe-ish Rush-hour steam-pipe explosion rattles Manhattan		19 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Just When You Thought It Was Safe-ish Rush-hour steam-pipe explosion rattles Manhattan An 83-year-old underground steam pipe exploded near New York City's Grand Central Terminal during rush hour yesterday, causing one death, more than 40 injuries, and a lot of rattled nerves. After the initial explosion -- a plume as high as the Chrysler Building that onlookers compared to a volcano, the Yel ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, health, New York City, news, toxics (all these topics)

Give a hoot, offset a poot It was only a matter of time	Katharine Wroth	19 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: advice, carbon offsets, climate, green living, health (all these topics)

Selling ourselves short The incredible shrinking American	Kate Sheppard	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, health (all these topics)

No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees Today is a make-or-break, do-or-die, fish-or-cut-bait, poo-or-get-off-the-pot, we-wish-we-could-think-of-more-hyphenated-clich�s day for New York, as state legislators, Governor Eliot Spitzer, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrestle over Bloomberg' ...
Topics: climate, health, innovation, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, public transportation, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Slime barrier Politicians behaving badly	biodiversivist	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: health, politics, sex (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)

Tracking the nation's most brilliant up-and-coming health researchers	David Roberts	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: health, sex (all these topics)

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