Time to break out tbe lauhala bags: A ban on plastic bags for customers of merchants in Kaua’i and Maui counties begins today. Unlike San Francisco’s landmark ban, which went into effect in November 2007, the Maui mandate includes both compostable and noncompostable plastic bags, presumably because the marine life that is at risk from [...]

I watched this and laughed and it struck me that maybe we environmentalists need to recruit Steve to make fun of us too! Enjoy as I did – Thanks Steve and the Steep Canyon Rangers. var showHover=false;

The following presentation may make you think twice about how you use or limit the use of electricity. For Jeff Goodall, author of Big Coal, the Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, he says: Clean coal is sort of like healthy cigarettes or limited nuclear war or fat free donuts. It’s one of the great oxymoron’s [...]

Planet Earth – We are the World. We are the ones who can make the World a better place. There comes a time when we come together as one – let’s make that time now for all of Earths creatures. var showHover=false;

Is enough being done to protect us from chemicals that could harm us? Watch “Toxic America,” a special two-night investigative report with Sanjay Gupta, M.D., June 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. (CNN) — If you’re eating non-organic celery today, you may be ingesting 67 pesticides with it, according to a new [...]

I saw a story about the Potential Dangers of Sucralose (Splenda) and decided to do some looking on the web for further information and came up with this from Dr Michael Wayne who runs a web site Low Density Lifestyle – This may get you singing along but it also has some disturbing information on [...]

Bisphenol A chemical commonly found in canned soup and food storage plastics is also used in some plastic wrap and plastic sandwich bags. Before you decide to chew on the cap of your water bottle because you’re nervous, make sure the plastic you are chewing on isn’t full of carcinogens and chemicals — even though [...]

Kick The CAP Out of Plastic Environmental Project – The City of Miramar, Everglades High School and Dolphin Bay Elementary. The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation is all about environmental education. Many a time we can as adults learn from our children. The Foundation was contacted by Katia Brody from the City of Miramar Florida and was [...]

The FDA has once again delayed their ruling on the safety of the toxic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) and its potentially harmful health effects from contamination in food packaging products. On June 3, 2009, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg had testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health. In response [...]

Foundation Comment – Following on from our posting New Alarm Bells about Chemicals and Cancer – Monsanto a history of poisons – and indeed the early piece where we highlighted the food contamination issue in “Please assume the mushroom position – Thank You” comes more detail on how everyday we are being slowly poisoned. Obama [...]