So far I have avoided any interaction with bedbugs, but I know a few people who have experienced infestations, and it’s starting to become a worrisome trend. Then, the other week I saw a home remedy for catching bed bugs that involved dry ice. Dry ice? It turns out that dry ice is solidified CO2—otherwise […]
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BP Oil Spill Denial: What Will It Take to Get Us to Change?
More than a month after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the oil continues to flow from the Gulf of Mexico to pollute the shores of America’s once-beautiful coastlines. The other week I saw a report put out by the University of Adelaide Environmental Institute that ranked countries around the world by their environmental impact. They […]
The True Cost of Doubt and Denial
The recent President’s Cancer Panel report, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now,” has put the official government seal on something many of us have recognized for quite some time: Chemicals are very likely to cause cancer. For the first time, the government has had the courage to recommend the proper solution: Eat […]
The President’s Cancer Panel Report Suggests We Smarten Up!
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman (a.k.a the Dirt Diva) Earlier this month the President’s Cancer Panel submitted its report, entitled Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, which describes the effects of environmental exposures on cancer risk. The two-member panel—LaSalle D. Lefall, Jr., MD, a professor of surgery at Howard University, and Margaret […]
Let’s Put the “Eco” Back in “Economics”
Be careful what you wish for… As a businessperson, I’ve always cringed when I’ve heard environmentalists cry to their faithful to “consume less.” Of course that’s the right thing to do, but the whole focus of our economic security in our global culture is based on consuming more. Growth, production, and consumer confidence are false […]
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Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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