TGIF! Have an awesome weekend everyone! More on BPA - I have discussed it several times on this blog already but something interesting happened yesterday. Dozens of state and national environmental health organizations in the U.S. and Canada have called for an immediate moratorium on the use of BPA in baby bottles and food and beverage containers. The report they released called "Baby's Toxic Bottle" discusses how something designed as a synthetic sex hormone has ended up in polycarbonate … [Read more...]
Zero Waste
WHAT DOES ZERO WASTE REALLY MEAN? By Paul Palmer - paulp@sonic.net [Paul Palmer is the author of Getting to Zero Waste (Sebastopol, Calif.: Purple Sky Press, 2004; ISBN 0-976057-0-7). A verse in a well-known blues runs: Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. In a similar way, (almost) everyone wants to get rid of garbage but (almost) nobody wants to adopt zero waste thinking. Zero Waste is an idea that is spreading from one city to another, from one county to … [Read more...]
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