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Hearing to Ban Bisphenol A (BPA) from Cash Register Receipts in CT

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As I was telling the cashier at the supermarket that I didn’t want the register receipt, I thought about the public hearing that is going to be held this Wednesday, February 22, 2011 in Hartford, CT to ban Bisphenol A, an endocrine disruptor,  from cash register receipts. According to Associated Press; Connecticut lawmakers are being asked to ban a chemical that some scientists consider to be dangerous, from being used [...]

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Ford Motors receives EPA’s 2010 Energy Star Award

This news is so timely as Earth Day is approaching fast and Earth Hour is less than five days away, I found this article very interesting. For Motor Company received its US EPA’s 2010 Energy Star Award for the fifth consecutive year due to its efforts in reducing energy use in its manufacturing and office buildings. It’s latest efforts involves powering down the PC’s in offices when not in use. [...]

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Fairy Godmothers Initiative

As you know, I recently became a co-leader of Team EcoEtsy. One of the best things about the position is that I get to meet all kinds of great people on the team, up close and personal. And one of them is Myra Roldan, from FunkeyMonkeyCompany. She is also a blogger, a techy, and a serial-preneur. She was the “Featured Member” editor for the Team EcoEtsy’s blog for awhile until [...]

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Shortage of LED lights?

Yep. You heard it correctly. There is a shortage of LED lights! Hooray! You know what that means? More and more people are catching on and using LED lights. Read this full story from PC Magazine…. Global demand for LEDs, especially backlights for PC displays and HDTVs, is stressing the available supply enough that there may be a “drastic” shortage in 2010, especially in big-screen LCDs. According to iSuppli, which [...]

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Team Eco Etsy

I opened my first shop ‘ecogeneration’ on Etsy, end of October 2008. I had no idea what I was doing and I certainly had no direction as to what I was going to sell and how much to charge. But I was so flabbergasted when I had my first sale – a set of “Plastic Bottle Cap Birds Nest Magnets”. I couldn’t believe that someone actually liked what I made [...]

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The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard

Did you see this video? It’s 20 minutes on the “stuff” we have, how they are made, what go into them, and where do they go when we are done with them by Annie Leonard. Go grab a cup of tea or coffee. Get comfortable and watch this informative video about the “stuff” we own. So what do you think about our “stuff”? Do you think we can live without [...]

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7 Foods Even Food Safety Experts Won’t Eat

Guess what some food safety experts won’t even eat according to Liz Vaccariello from prevention magazine. 1. Canned Tomatoes The expert: Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, an endocrinologist at the University of Missouri who studies bisphenol-A The problem: The resin linings of tin cans contain Bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Unfortunately, acidity (a prominent characteristic of [...]

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Top word and phrase for the decade 2000-2009

Top word: global warming (“Sustainable” is 22nd on the list) Top Phrase: Climate Change Need I say more? Source: languagemonitor

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BMW announced as automotive partner of London Olympic and Paralympic Games

I wanted to give you the full story without editing it because I think this is such a great news! According to the BMW website, “Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has today announced that BMW has become the Automotive Partner of London 2012. BMW will provide the 4,000 or so vehicles which are required at the Games to [...]

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Peer pressure is good for the environment

If you have kids, I bet you tell your kids not to give into peer pressure. I bet you tell your kids not to take drugs or drink alcohol just because their friends are doing them. But on the flip side, I bet you want to follow what your neighbors or your colleagues are doing, secretly. I bet you want to make your garden just as pretty as your next-door [...]

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World Series Baseball is going GREEN!

Remember my recent post about sports that are NOT so green? Well, read this article from Mother Nature Network about how this year’s World Series is going green! Short excerpt……. “Working with the MLB’s “Team Greening” Program, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will be out in full force at Game 2. Clad in NRDC T-shirts, these hardy and apparently cold-resistant environmentalists will be roaming the aisles of Yankee Stadium [...]

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NYC is the most eco friendly city in the country!

I had an unexpected opportunity to walk around NYC  last Friday when I visited Ecostore’s launch at Duane Reade.  I lived in and around NYC for the last thirty years and honestly, I never paid attention to what the big deal was about my city. I mean, why would people be jealous that I lived in NY? OK, so we have theaters, museums, restaurants, shopping, landmarks, and millions of eclectic [...]

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No Impact Man

I heard about Colin Beaven last month and I kinda knew about him and yet I didn’t. But I saw this video and now I am dying to see the movie. Watch this trailer of a family living in New York City without using electricity (is that possible in NYC?), without using any mode of transportation except for walking (yup, no subways, no taxis, and no elevators), eating no meat [...]

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Annual International Walk to School Day October 7, 2009

When my daughter was in 5th grade, I was very active in the Parent Teacher Association. I was the Board Executive for the “Health and Safety Committee” and one of the events I coordinated was “Walk to School” in October. At that time, child obesity was the “hot” issue and “Walk to School” event promoted walking to prevent obesity and to rally safer sidewalks for kids. But conserving the environment [...]

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Green Cleaning Your School

When I had my chiropractic practice, one of my patients was a preschool teacher. She had horribly cracked hands. She told me that she’d use Clorox mixture to clean and disinfect the tables and chairs every day. And when a child was diagnosed with Strep throat or pink eye, the cleaning procedure would involve the toys and everything that kids would touch. Well, I remember thinking, if the cleaning products [...]

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My visit to the High Line in NYC

The High Line was built in the 1930s, as part of the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan’s largest industrial district in the West Side, from Gansevoort St. to 34th St. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980. In 1999, a community based non-profit group called Friends of the High Line formed when [...]

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Green Colleges

We have to start thinking about colleges for my son. He’s looking into visiting some schools and I got to thinking, how are colleges and universities doing with keeping their campuses “green”. I know… there is a bigger and more pertinent criteria to contend with when we are choosing a school, like the programs they offer for his education, but I was curious as to which ones are greener than [...]

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Flatulent farms harming the environment. Really.

My family cannot live without eating meat for more than two weeks. I know growing teenagers and athletes, like mine, need protein and lots of it. But they crave red meat. Not just chicken or pork but sizzling hot juicy steak with buttery potatoes once in a while. They can eat hamburgers every day if I let them. They prefer Bolognese gravy over Primavera with spaghetti any day. Me? I’m [...]

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Stimulus Package for Green Economy

Brace your self – this one is long but I have VERY important facts. President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law last month. Of the $787 billion being doled out in this stimulus package, in some form or another, a bunch of it is going towards green-related things. But who gets how much and for what? Here is a short excerpt from EcoGeeks. (You don’t’ think [...]

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Eco IQ Quiz

I thought this would start the week right……by taking a short pop quiz. Hold on, you’ll do fine. Besides, no one will know how you did. Take this short quiz to test your eco-IQ when it comes to buying and using environmentally friendly products. (Don’t cheat but the answers are below.) What makes the air in U.S. homes an average of 2-5 times more polluted than the air outside? A [...]

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Bad economy hits the recycling industry

My new year’s resolution, if you remember, is to be optimistic this year. Well, it’s been really hard to stay optimistic when friends and family are getting laid off all around me. I worry about today and tomorrow and not just the future. I don’t spend as much money, in fear that something ‘bad’ might happen. I reuse even more now. I am extra careful with my purchases. And believe [...]

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