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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Running the Numbers : An American Self-Portrait

Running the Numbers
: An American Self-Portrait

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
My hope is that images [...]

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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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An Inconvenient Truth > About the Film

An Inconvenient Truth > About the Film 
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat [...]

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“WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?” documentary

Voices – “WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?”
“WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?”By: Joe American
GM’s 1997 EV1 electric vehicle – production killed
SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS BRILLIANT MUST-SEE DOCUMENTARY FILM!
If you care about High Gasoline Prices, People’s Healthcare, the Environment,Dependence on Foreign Energy, and Terrorism, then you’ll want to see this newfilm: “Who Killed The [...]

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Mapping producers to buy local

SustainabilityZone >
Keeping it Local, Keeping it Green
Posted April 13, 2006 by Rod Edwards
in General InterestBuying local produce is a green retail mantra – avoiding the shipping of produce across the country or the world saves resources and prevents the release of tonnes of CO2. But – the same thinking has failed to [...]

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Slow down you move too fast (SlowFood)

Vue Weekly : Articles

SLOW DOWN, YOU’RE MOVING TOO FAST, YOU GOT TO MAKE THIS DINNER LAST
CHRISTOPHER THRALL / christopher@vueweekly.com
The Slow Food movement was founded in 1986 to protect the pleasures of the table, when a group of activists, supported by the Italian government, opposed the homogenization of modern fast food.
They saw the frenetic pace [...]

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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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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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