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Tag Archives: chemicals
Chemical Scents: They’re Everywhere!
I’ve written about chemical scents and health impacts in posts such as “Snake Oil?” but not recently. When I read Dr. Molot’s post recently, I just knew I wanted to share it and now was as good a time as … Continue reading
Posted in Asthma, Chemicals, health, hormone, Shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged chemicals, harm
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Pipe Dreams and Foolish Experiments
Recently I attended a presentation and consultation meeting about a pipeline that is being proposed north of where I live. The proposal is to connect the Alberta Tar Sands to the east coast of Canada in order to ship the … Continue reading
Posted in environmental disasters, health, Pipeline, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, chemicals, consultation, deforestation, energy, environment, habitat destruction, Ontario, pipeline, TransCanada, trees, Western culture
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A Plethora of Possibilities
The good news about so many bad things happening to our environment is there are so many options to pick from for jumping in and adding your voice and energy to help. I’m an optimist and I like to find … Continue reading
Posted in action, Alternatives, Asthma, Chemicals, Environmental Leaders, health, hormone
Tagged asthmagens, chemicals, Chris Jordan, environment, helping, snow shoe, taking action
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Knowledge is power
I saw this post about chemicals in our lives by the co-author of a compelling book and I wanted to share it with you. Chemicals have severely invaded our everyday life. Some have said we’re living an experiment and we’re … Continue reading
Posted in action, Chemicals, health, hormone, Shopping, Tips
Tagged chemicals, human impacts, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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Snake Oil?
What kind of mad world have we allowed to be created where now when you step out your door to go shopping for groceries and other products, you can’t simply worry whether there is too much salt, sugar or fat … Continue reading
Posted in Chemicals, Food, health, hormone, Shopping
Tagged chemicals, children, flame retardants, food system, harm, plastic, snake oil
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Increasingly Silent Spring
Who hasn’t had good intentions about reading a book that is just sitting on their shelf? I have many such books. But the time came to finally pick up one of them in particular. In beginning to read it, I … Continue reading
Posted in Chemicals, Culture, Environmental Leaders, war
Tagged Al Gore, chemicals, environment, harm, human impacts, leadership, pesticide, planet, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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