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Happiest Child
HAPPIEST CHILD “You’re only as unhappy as your unhappiest child,” my friend who has cancer says. I believe her. You have to accumulate a lot of stress and heartache to get cancer. It’s easy enough to acquire. A small bad habit, … Continue reading
Posted in pesticides, Uncategorized
Tagged #BigHug, #BigLove, #thankyou, happiest child, International Women's Month, love, parenting, pesticides, stress
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Rounded Up, But Definitely Not Ready
Rounded Up, But Definitely Not Ready The first verdict came in August 2018 when a San Francisco jury told Monsanto that it had to pay $289 million in damages to a Dewayne Johnson who developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma after years … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, air, biocides, ecosystems, endocrine disruptor, environment, environmental conservation, environmental effects, food, Glyphosate, herbicides, organic farming, pesticides, Sustainability, Uncategorized, water, water purification
Tagged Bayer Science Corp, clean air, clean water, conservation, Glyphosate, hericides, lawsuits, Monsanto, organic farming, pesticides, Roundup, roundup ready
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Slipcover the World
Slipcover the World If given the choice, most people would not wash their hands with a pesticide even if it assured them a squeaky clean, bacteria-free experience. Yet every day in kitchens and bathrooms across America, people are unwittingly doing … Continue reading
When Chemicals Combine
When Chemicals Combine It’s a tenet of the modern age that if you are alive and thriving on our planet, walking around in a “meat suit” — to steal a term from the TV show, “Supernatural” — you are likely … Continue reading
Posted in clean water, pesticides, water
Tagged arsenic, clean water, EPA, FDA, George de Mestral, Gore-Tex, herbicides, insecticides, MCLs, meat suit, naturally occurring, pesticides, plastic, purification, risk assessment, sandwich bags, Society of Chemical Manufacturers, supernatural, Velcro, water, water bottles, when chemicals combine
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Home Is Where Your Honey Bee
[I previously posted a version of this essay in my former blog.] I never really thought much about bees other than the ones hiding in my soda can during family picnics and never had that warm fuzzy space in my … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, biocides, pesticides
Tagged Bayer Science Corp, Bees, chlothianidin, Colony Collapse Disorder, decreased foraging areas, Einstein, honey bees, parasites, pesticides
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring When Rachel Carson penned Silent Spring, first published in 1962, she probably had no idea that it would be one of the most influential books of the modern environmental movement. A smart, savvy scientist, Carson wrote the seminal … Continue reading
Posted in biocides, herbicides, pesticides, Uncategorized
Tagged biocides, cancer, do-it-yourself gardens, environmental movement, herbicides, pesticides
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Don’t care about spots on my apples…
Don’t care about spots on my apples… Today, in a magnanimous and demonstrated show of concern for the health and wellbeing of the citizens of our nation, for their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of a toxin-free happiness, … Continue reading
Posted in DDT, paradise, pesticides, Uncategorized
Tagged biocides, Counting Crows, DDT, herbicides, insecticides, Joni Mitchell, parking lot, paved paradise, pesticides
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Why the Environment Matters
Why the Environment Matters An open letter to the ladies of the JLL: When I was a kid growing up in the 1970’s, rivers were catching on fire, gas and industry’s smoke stacks spewed lead into the air, and pesticides … Continue reading
Posted in air, biking, clean water, environment, Innovation, pesticides
Tagged bike share, clean water, environment matters, rain gardens, roof gardens
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