Bottled water release poisons

I received this warning in an email (see below) and decided to do a google search to see what the science was behind the note.
RE: Bottled Water – don’t buy any bottled water which is piled up in the sun at grocery stores, such as Save-On-Foods who love to pile their bottled water up in [...]

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Slow Food Nation

Slow Food Nation
Slow Food Nation by Alice Waters
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Food is destiny, all right; every decision we make about food has personal and global repercussions. By now it is generally conceded that the food we eat could actually be making us sick, but we still haven’t acknowledged the full consequences–environmental, political, cultural, social and ethical–of our [...]

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Green Living Enterprise (Canada)

Key Publishers Company Ltd. has been a visible Ontario communications company since 1962, involved in such titles as Toronto Life, Canadian Business, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Art and other publications and book publishing companies. Key is currently focused on encouraging the preservation of biodiversity, protecting natural habitats, investing in the environmental economy and spreading the environmental [...]

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Blogs about clean technology

Cleantechblog
Cleantechblog.com,
the premier site for commentary on clean technologies, news, and issues
relating to next generation energy and the environment.
Blogroll from the above blog
321 Energy
Alt Energy Stocks
Alternative Energy Blog
Alternative Energy ~ Renewable Energy
Alternative Energy: News
BioConversion Blog
Biodiesel Blog
Cascadia Scorecard
Clean Break
Clean Energy Future
Cleantech Investing
Cleantech Venture Network Blog List
Coalblog
Commons Blog
Debris
Deep Green Crystals
Earth Sentinel
Eco Earth
Energy Answers
Energy Blog
Entropy Production
Future Technologies Blog
Gil Friend
Global [...]

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Relational Neighborhood

Urban Spaces | Urban Places
The Relational Neighborhood
Over the past few weeks, I have participated in a spontaneous bonfire in a neighbor’s backyard, helped a neighbor lay patio blocks, moved a neighbor’s new couch into her house, shared beer, food, joys, and sorrows with neighbors, salvaged items from a neighbor’s trash for my use, [...]

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Hugg for ‘green news’

Hugg is a digg type news rating system. Some examples are found below.
Hugg /
Fuel Efficiency Tax Incentive
gravatar posted by MauiChris 2 hours 5 minutes ago view profile
Over at Triplepundit they are proposing a tax incentive to nudge people in the direction of fuel efficient cars. The idea sounds really great and would give people [...]

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Natural settings shrug off stress

Green power | The San Diego Union-Tribune
ENVIRONMENT
Green power
Studies find natural settings help both kids and adults shrug off stress
By Karen Patterson
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
May 5, 2004
Playing in natural settings helps children with attention deficit disorder, new studies show.
A patch of greenery isn’t just another pretty space. A growing body of research is showing [...]

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Nature against stress

Cornell News: Nature buffers stress in children
A room with a view helps rural children deal with life’s stresses, Cornell researchers report

A room with a view — a green one, that is — can help protect children against stress, according to a new study by two Cornell University environmental psychologists. Nature in or around [...]

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Portail d’info sur l’environnement

Un portail de recherche pour toute information écologique
EcoEarth.Info –
The Environmental Sustainability Portal

An Information Gateway Empowering the Movement for Environmental Sustainability
Aussi info | ClimateArk | Forests.org | Water Conserve | Ocean Conserve | Rainforest Portal

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Plastique et environnement

Le plastique fait des dégats monstre. Ce billet en deux temps vous dirige vers un reportage de radio-canada sur les dommages causés par les contenants d’eau embouteillée; et la seconde partie vous demande de faire le détour pour signer une pétition qui vise à bannir les sacs de plastique ¨qui tuent¨.
Radio-Canada.ca
Nature et environnementÉmission du 12 [...]

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