RADIOACTIVITY AROUND CHERNOBYL REDUCED BY 47% USING ONLY PROCESSES OF EARTH( life / health / environment )
Wow, this is great! Next stop Fukishima?As they committed to doing last April, on the occasion of the 35th commemoration of the Chernobyl accident, the Swiss-based company Exlterra has reported spectacular results after one year of decontamination on a 2.5 acre plot of land (1 hectare), located in the radioactive...... read more
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ORDERS EPA TO BAN ALL FOOD USES OF TOXIC PESTICIDE CHLORPYRIFOS( life / health / environment )
By Julia Conley The environmental law organization Earthjustice celebrated a huge victory for farmworkers and children on Thursday after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban all food uses of a toxic pesticide linked to memory loss and... w... read more
CONSERVATION: AT LEAST 28 BIRD AND MAMMAL SPECIES HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM EXTINCTION SINCE 1993( life / health / environment )
Researchers from the UK analysed some of the world's most threatened species and predicted how many would have gone extinct were it not for conservation...: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-87... read more
SIMPLE RECIPE FOR HOMEMADE NON-TOXIC FABRIC SOFTENER( life / health / environment )
Fabric softener sheets are one of the most unnecessary dangerous chemicals that you may be using in your home, and it's important that you stop. We have been gravely misinformed and maybe we believe there are some kind of standards set by our governments. Unfortunately, it seems these protection agencies, for the most part, do... read more
BEES ABSOLUTELY LOVE CANNABIS, AND IT COULD HELP RESTORE THEIR POPULATIONS( life / health / environment )
New research out of Cornell University that's been published in Environmental Entomology, shows that humans aren't the only fans of cannabis... at themindunleashed.com/2020/01/bees-absolutely-love-ca... read more
5G COMING TO OHIO AND TENNESSEE( life / health / environment )
And that's activistpost.com/2019/02/ohio-and-tennessee-att-plans-to-fry-you-with-5g.htmlnot a good thing . See also blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/at-senate-commerce-hearing-blumenthal-raises-concerns-on-5g-wireless-technologys-potential-health-ri... read more
ACTUAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES( life / health / environment )
naturalnews.com/2017-06-05-ten-alarming-real-threats-to-the-environment-ignored-by-climate-change.htmlHere are some actual environmental issues we should be addressing instead of climate change (or screaming about the U.S. pulling out of the Paris climate treaty). FYI, pollution is caused by humans and... read more
MORE EVIDENCE POINTS TO PESTICIDE AS CAUSE OF MASS BEE DEATHS( life / health / environment )
So, literally, for the sake of human survival, please stop using at least this one pesticide by bayer.comBayer !A new study published in Naturwissenschaften -- The Science of Nature by a leading bee expert provides damning evidence that a widely-used pesticide, even at low... read more
COOL SOLUTION TO CLEAN UP OIL DISASTER( life / health / environment )
Don't know if they used any of this on the BP oil disaster last year, but good to know for future events. youtube.com/watch?vYQuk68SjyEY. Bring2Help2 VIDEO .... read more
ENVIRONMENT PAGE( life / health / environment )
cleantechnica.com/2013/08/02/radically-new-technique-to-produce-hydrogen-fuel-from-water-developed/New technique to produce hydrogen fuel from water Old footage from BP relief well oil blow-out: bp.concerts.com/gom/reliefwellgraphics062710.htmbp.concerts.com hr... read more
STOP BUYING PAPER TOWELS( life / health / environment )
Save the rain forests and add a little style back to your dinner table. Use dinner napkins. You know, actual cloth napkins. Remember those? Your mother used to use them. Maybe your grandmother. Anyway, stop buying paper towels! It's a waste of paper, and cloth napkins are actually cheaper in the long run, anyway. Here's another short ... read more
AMNESTY DAY AT THE DUMP( life / health / environment )
That sounds weird, but I just returned from the dump/recycling center, in my case the one on Omohundro Drive. I dropped off the old dishwasher along with my usual recycling and household trash. Anyway, the woman there told me that today (Saturday, May 15) is an unadvertised amnesty day when you can drop off ANYTHING (other than nuclear wast... read more