43% of Products Marketed to Kids are Artificially Dyed, Study Finds
From the EIN News, June 13, 2016 – 43% of Products Marketed to Kids are Artificially Dyed, Study Finds – Of 810 products marketed to children, 350, or 43 percent of them, contained Red 40, Yellow 5, or...
View ArticleAir pollution linked to increased mental illness in children
From The Guardian, June 13, 2016 – New research is first to establish the link and builds on other evidence that children are particularly vulnerable to even low levels of pollution. // <![CDATA[...
View ArticleWidely used U.S. farm chemical atrazine may threaten animals: EPA
From Reuters, June 2, 2016 – One of the most popular herbicides in U.S. agriculture can be dangerous to animals and fish and leaves behind worrisome residue levels, the Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleObama Enacts New Chemical Regulations: What Do Changes Mean?
From abc News, Jun 22, 2016 – President Obama Signs New Chemical Regulations Into Law In a sweeping reform bill that could potentially affect everything from household cleaners to furniture and...
View ArticleHidden Costs of American Food Revealed
From PR Newswire, April 21, 2016 – The hidden cost of seemingly cheap food production is damaging the planet, driving human disease and jeopardizing food workers exposed to toxins every day. Experts...
View ArticleHelpless to Prevent Cancer? Actually, Quite a Bit Is in Your Control
From The Upshot, July 5, 2016 – Americans seem very afraid of cancer, with good reason. Unlike other things that kill us, it often seems to come out of nowhere. But evidence has increasingly...
View Article5 Things Wrong With Your Deodorant
From Time, July 5, 2016 – Experts warn about ingredients in underarm products. Should you worry? You wouldn’t swallow a spoonful of toxic cosmetic ingredients. But in some ways, smearing them under...
View ArticlePaying Farmers to Go Organic, Even Before the Crops Come In
From the New York Times, July 14, 2016, DENAIR, Calif. — The last time Wendell Naraghi tried to make money from organic nuts, in the 1980s, he failed miserably. “Basically, we stopped because no one...
View ArticleThis 3,000-Mile-Long Bike Lane Will Let You Ride From Maine To Florida
From Battelle, July 19, 2016 – One day, not too far in the future, cyclists will be able to ride all the way from Maine to Florida, thanks to a 3,000-mile bike path that is already almost one-third...
View ArticleBuying directly from farmers has outsized impact on local economy, UC Davis...
From the Sacramento Bee, July 20, 2016 – As a past board member at the Davis farmers market, Shermain Hardesty knows that people who buy fruits and vegetables directly from producers show up week after...
View ArticleWhat we’re doing to the environment may be costing us our drinking water
From the Washington Post, July 26, 2016 – The human footprint on the environment may have affected one of the Earth’s most precious resources — our drinking water — in a major way throughout the last...
View ArticleHuman Consumption of Earth’s Natural Resources Has Tripled in 40 Years
From EcoWatch, July 25, 2016 – Humans’ appetite for gnawing away at the fabric of the Earth itself is growing prodigiously. According to a new UN report, the amount of the planet’s natural resources...
View ArticleStudy: Common pesticide appears to reduce live bee sperm
From the Charlotte Observer, July 26, 2016 – WASHINGTON – A new study finds that a commonly used insecticide kills much of the sperm created by male drone honey bees, one reason why the bees are...
View ArticleHow Hampton Creek’s Plant-Based Foods Have Scrambled The Grocery Aisle
From Battelle, July 28, 2016 – From Silicon Valley to SoMa, the Bay Area is packed with blockbuster companies that were built on little more than a good idea. But there’s only one that was built on a...
View ArticleSustainability: Made in Germany, debated in perpetuity
From Rural, July 29, 2016 – Farmers around the world are finding themselves in a never-ending quest to become more sustainable. The difficulty is, while everyone wants to decide how food should be...
View ArticleHow car charging is going the way of Airbnb
From E&E Publishing, LLC, August 2, 2016 – Tim Thomson needed a charge, quickly. With his all-electric Nissan Leaf fast losing battery power and no places to plug in along the highway from Fresno,...
View ArticleMeet the Bee Heroes Working On the Front Lines to Save Pollinators
From Civil Eats, August 2, 2016 – Most everyone agrees that the bees are in trouble. The U.S. and Canada have lost one-third of their managed honeybee colonies for seven consecutive years now, and...
View ArticleResearchers find unsafe levels of industrial chemicals in drinking water of 6...
From the Washington Post, August 9, 2016 – Drinking water supplies serving more than six million Americans contain unsafe levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked to potentially...
View ArticlePressure Mounts to Reform Our Throwaway Clothing Culture
From environment360, August 9, 2016 – Americans dispose of about 12.8 million tons of textiles annually — 80 pounds for each man, woman, and child. In the U.S. and around the world, a growing number of...
View ArticleWarning Signs: How Safe Is “BPA Free?”
From Endocrine news, August 2016 – While stickers are showing up declaring certain products “BPA Free,” that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily safe. Could bisphenol S be even worse than the compound it...
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