Posted by Peter Endisch on June 28th, 2007 at 22:18 PDT (Environment)
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Around the world, factories are using more than 18 million barrels of oil and up to 130 billion gallons of fresh water a year to create something that, by and large, most people don’t need. But the product is so amazingly popular that sales are going up 10 percent a year, just like clockwork.
The big success story? Bottled water. And the resources mentioned above are just to make the plastic containers.
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Posted by Peter Endisch on June 27th, 2007 at 23:24 PDT (News)
Source: Treehugger
Photo credit: Paul Takamoto
Organic food is organically grown, except when it isn’t. Confused? So are we. (Man, are we ever.) The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) greenlighted a proposal late last Friday allowing 38 new non-organic ingredients in products bearing the “USDA Organic” seal, despite more than 10,000 e-mails and letters from concerned consumers and farmers, according to the Organic Consumer’s Association.
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Posted by Peter Endisch on June 26th, 2007 at 09:43 PDT (News)
And for good reason. Thirsty San Francisco city workers will no longer have bottled water to drink under an order by Mayor Gavin Newsom, who says it costs too much, worsens pollution and is no better than tap water.
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Posted by Peter Endisch on June 22nd, 2007 at 10:52 PDT (Chemical World)
Summer’s here and we all want to avoid sunburn and skin cancer. So just slather on sunscreen, right? Well, not just any sunscreen. Search EWG’s sunscreen safety database to find out what’s safest and most effective for you and your family.
There are no federal sunscreen safety standards in the U.S., even though the FDA has been drafting them for the past 29 years. And did you know that SPF ratings only cover UVB rays, which cause burns, but not UVA rays, which raise skin cancer risk?
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Posted by Peter Endisch on June 18th, 2007 at 13:19 PDT (News)
Hello my fellow readers,
my apologies for not posting at my regular pace; I have been on vacation with my lovely wife kayaking and camping in the Gulf Islands, BC, near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. The trip was quite nice, however the weather did not cooperate at all, which partly ruined the trip. One also had to be careful going sea kayaking since the weather can change quickly, and the tides and currents and waves when it’s windy can be hazardous to kayakers. We were quite well prepared, and so nothing major befell upon us. We are hoping to make many more memorable trips in the future. The highlight must have been to see tons of curious seals surrounding our kayaks and following us everywhere.
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