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Study Shows Everyday Items Expose All of Us To Pollutants
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Living RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A study done in the state of Maine tested residents for 71 everyday, pervasive and harmful chemical compounds. Even those leading “healthy” lifestyles were shocked to discover the chemical levels their body carried. The frightening part [...]
Help The World With Eco Tourism
Most people these days try to take action towards saving the environment. Whether it be recycling your bottles and cans, using a compost bin, offsetting their compost balance, or even refusing to fly. Don’t just limit your good work to while you’re at home, make sure that you follow through while on vacation too. [...]
How to Find a Hotel Thats Eco-Friendly
From Washingtonpost.com
“Travelers seeking a hotel that leaves a minimal carbon imprint often end up in a place that falls short of their expectations. The problem is that in the United States, “we don’t have one single source that clearly defines what is or is not a green hotel,” Nor are there many guidebooks or [...]
Eco-Friendly Ways to Cut Energy Costs
Check out these seven tips from David Bach at Yahoo Finance, for saving money during the summer by cutting your energy use. You can save a bundle this summer, while also making your home more environmentally friendly and energy efficient:
Overview of the tips:
1. Get a home energy audit
2. Seal up air leaks
3. Tune up [...]
Skin Deep’s New Sunscreen Safety Report
According to the experts, the sun is toxic but so are sunscreens! Most sunscreens are loaded with chemicals, toxins and carcinogens, and anyone who knows anything about commercial sunscreens knows they are marketing ploys that are linked to cancer and other health concerns and would much rather keep themselves and their families indoors rather [...]
Silver Lining of High Gas Prices
It is easy for the environmentalist in all of us to see the benefit of higher gas prices. The more fuel prices rise, the less people drive and pollution drops tremendously overall. In addition, the fuel crisis seems to be lighting a fire under the ass of the auto manufacturers who now seem [...]
Global Population to Hit 7 Billion
According to the US Census Bureau, the world population is scheduled to hit 7 billion by the year 2012. India and China are the countries with the largest populations and the US is currently third in the world with over 300 million but the majority of the US growth has been through immigration. [...]
How Hotels Are Going Green
Many consumers are beginning to actively seek out green hotels as part of their desire to be eco conscious on the road as well as at home. Hotels are rising to the occasion because eco-friendly lodging is a win-win because it saves the hotels money and allows them to meet the growing demand for [...]
Mercedes Goes Eco-Friendly
Mercedes has plans to totally eliminate petroleum powered vehicles within seven years to be replaced by alternative powered vehicles such as electric and biofuels. They have already invested $4 million in their Sustainable Mobility plan and we should be seeing a purchasable vehicle that runs on biofuels in the year 2010. Read more [...]
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
There is an overwhelming attitude of American citizens of unwavering trust in the US government to protect them from harm. Americans in general believe that all those three letter acronym government agencies exist, simply to protect the health and well being of its citizens. A new book by Mark Shapiro, Exposed: The Toxic [...]
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