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Added on October 31, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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TREE STICKERS

These Come From Trees Sticker
This is the sticker we're hoping can save a couple hundred thousand trees a year. Amazing how the right message at the right time can make the difference.
  • Check out our "welcome post" to learn about what inspired this project.
  • Testing shows a "These Come From Trees" sticker on a paper towel dispenser reduces paper towel consumption by ~15%
  • A typical fast food restaurant with two bathrooms can use up to 2000 pounds of paper towels a year
  • The average coffee shop uses 1000 pounds of paper towels a year
  • A single tree produces around 100 pounds of paper
  • A single "These Come From Trees" sticker can save around a tree's worth of paper, every year
  • Roughly 50,000 fast food restaurants in the US
  • 200,00 gas stations in the US
  • 14,000 McDonalds' in the US
  • There are 10,000 Starbucks in the US

Added on October 31, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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Our Toxic Environment

Monday, October 29, 2007 10-11AM ET



On Point
 Host Tom Ashbrook

It's a chemical world. In our water bottles, our furniture, our cosmetics and lawns and food, we are surrounded by synthetic chemicals. Since World War II, some 80,000 have been introduced. Forty-two billion pounds worth are produced or imported in the U.S. every year.

At the same time, Americans face a phalanx of disease and health challenges -- from cancer to asthma to disrupted hormones -- that have everyone wondering every day what's safe to breathe, to touch, to eat. Europe is stricter. The U.S. -- wide open.

 This hour, On Point: chemical threats, and the call for a new "green chemistry."
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John Warner, president and chief technology officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry

John Peterson Myers, founder, CEO and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences and co-author of "Our Stole Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?"
Added on October 29, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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Environmental Health and Autism

Autism is a Whole Body Condition

Thanks to a grant by the John Merck Fund, the Autism Society of America convened an Advisory Board on Environmental Health, and together released a special issue of the Autism Advocate and a Web campaign to increase awareness about links between autism spectrum disorders and environmental toxins. ASA and its advisory board have launched a "campaign of influence" for early 2007 which will build a grassroots community to continue research and awareness of the effect of environmental influences on autism.

For more information about ASA's Environmental Health Project use the menu on the right.

Autism Advocate: Environmental Health Issue Feature Articles:

Time to Get a Grip - Martha R. Herbert, M.D., Ph.D.

Can Exposure to Environmental Toxicants Influence Autism Susceptibility? by Isaac N. Pessah, Ph.D.

The UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute: Uniquely Designed to Study Gene-Environmental Interactions in Autism by Robert Hendren, D.O.


MIND Institute ConferenceASA partnered with the M.I.N.D. Institute on a seminal, CME conference entitled "Clinical Implications of Environmental Toxicology for Children's Neurodevelopment in Autism." See video and transcripts here.

 

 

 

Added on October 28, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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Concerns Over Synthetic Turf

By Jeff  Holtz --NEW YORK TIMES - CT Section -  October 28, 2007
Added on October 28, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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Rachel Carson Was Right

Silent Spring
 By Daily Kos (Daily Kos)
It's amazing how life hasn't changed since 1962, when Rachel Carson was writing. We still eagerly surround ourselves with numerous synthetic chemicals without much thought about their effects on our world.
Daily Kos - http://www.dailykos.com /section/Diary
Added on October 28, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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Frances Moore Lappe

Thursday, November 1 - Frances Moore Lappe

Frances Moore Lappe, bestselling author of, "Diet for a Small Planet," will be discussing and signing her new book, "Getting A Grip: Clarity Creativity Courage in a World Gone Mad. " She will also be signing her other popular books.

7 PM    Free to the public.
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist
6 Eliot St.   Sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Forum

 

Added on October 26, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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Field Trip to Witness Climate Change

The PBS television program NOW will feature a documentary of the historic week-long expedition to Alaska at the end of August 2007 organized by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE).   Please visit the NOW website on PBS for more information on the show, as well as to confirm the viewing time in your area by entering your zip code:   http://www.pbs.org/now/.  Later this week, this website will be updated with useful background information on the trip, as well as lessons learned on the journey by Eric Chivian and the Rev. Richard Cizik.
Added on October 23, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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Green Cleaning in Schools

New Resource From Environmental Law Institute
http://www2.eli.org/research /iaq.htm

Green Cleaning in Schools: Summary of Selected State and School District
Policies (October 2007)
Added on October 23, 2007 by RachelCarson100

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