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  • London Drugs Customer Styrofoam Recycling

    Packaging made from expanded polystyrene (EPS), brand named Styrofoam by Dow, saves tons of emissions during transport, due to its lightweight, impact absorbing capabilities. Styrofoam is so lightweight, that it

  • Giants Ban Nasty Chemicals... From Team Uniforms

    As the San Francisco Giants continue their chase for a Wild Card berth in the October playoffs, fans are bound

  • Why GMO Foods Have Failed at Producing Healthy Food for More People

    For a technology that has sucked up billions of research dollars and prolonged agriculture's dependence on chemical inputs, GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have yet to justify their role in a world desperate

  • Flaxen Beauties: Professional Racing Bikes Made of Flax Fiber

    Image: Museeuw Bikes) Finally, a bike made of linoleum. Indeed, flax, from which traditional linoleum is made, is the secret ingredient in the polymer smoothie that makes these ultra-high performance bicycles. Johan Museeuw, the retired Belgian racer and

  • Missouri Bans Wrong Plastic

    The web is abuzz with the newest plastic ban -- this one being mocked as an epic fail of the democratic organism. We got curious...and bring you the rest of the

  • Today's Toxin: Atrazine, the Weed Killer in your Water

    The weed killer Atrazine is commonly used by farmers, on golf courses and those beautiful green lawns that people love so much. Most of it is made by the Swiss company

  • Canadian Medical Association Calls for Ban on Triclosan

    TreeHugger has been all over Bisphenol A this week, but there is another gender bender chemical that we have been talking about since John wrote There’s A Frog Disruptor In My Soap three years ago: Triclosan. It is in all kinds of so-called

  • Find a BPA Free Alternative To SIGG

    Commenters have been all over me for suggesting that old SIGG bottles that are lined with epoxy resin made with Bisphenol A (BPA) are safe to keep using. One blogger, Real Green Girl, writes: "Really? Lloyd Alter, after 4 postings and an ambush of

  • Downing A Dose of Castor Oil with Pebax Rnew Plastic

    For they're making some of

  • Getting Wired Without Electricity: The Hourglass Coffee Maker

    Image via RT Sales, Inc. If you are able to look into the future at least 12 hours, and want to cut the electricity or natural gas out of your coffee-brewing workflow, then check out the Hourglass. We first saw this gadget over at Dvice. It doesn't take

  • Chinese Town Poisoned by Batteries

    Even if "hysteria" may be to blame for some environmental illnesses in China, state media are unequivocal about the poisoning of citizens who live near a chemical plant in the town of Zhentou.Health checks on nearly 3,000 people living near the plant

  • Chinese Factory Workers Fall Ill: Is It Pollution or "Hysteria"?

    In a story nearly worthy of the Onion, officials in China have sought to reassure 1,200 factory workers in the city of Jilin that their symptoms of nausea, numbness, dizziness, convulsions, breathing difficulties, vomiting and temporary paralysis were

  • The Facts About Styrene, Cancer and Bike Helmets

    In spite of budget problems, and on the heels of listing marijuana smoke as a carcinogen, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment now girds for battle with the styrene industry. California has proposed to

  • Eastman Wins Green Chemistry Award

    Future scientists will surely look back at the tremendous growth era of chemistry in the previous century and muse about the medieval 20th century technology. For millenia, nature has produced everything life on the planet needed using only the energy

  • Rate Your Stinky Hippy Factor: Do You Really Need Deodorant?

    An informal survey of the global TreeHugger gang revealed an interesting (and perhaps slightly redolent) tendency to move away from the use of deodorant each and every day. In fact, the majority of responding THers

  • Kaia House Nail Polish Makes For Clean Manis and Pedis

    Giving a french manicure to yourself or your little girl is easy with the new line of Organic Bio-Polishes from Kaia House. These 6 colors (plus top/base coat) are free of 20 toxins commonly found in nail polish and they also have

  • Cancers Threaten Wild Animal Populations

    Image: Green Turtle Face, by Sharon Deem, courtesy of WCS Sad Green Turtle If this Green Turtle appears sad, perhaps it is pondering the newest threat to its endangered species. Green turtles belong to the groups of marine denizens known to suffer from

  • Obama Administration Suspends CHAMP Chemical Assessment Program

    Only a few months ago, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration would pick up the pace of the Chemicals Assessment and Management Program (CHAMP),

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