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No matter what your political ideology, I think we can all agree that corruption in our political process is endemic and that many politicians are “paid for” or “bought off” by special interests and big business in general. With the structure of campaign finance and political gift giving it is almost guaranteed that this will [...]
It has been widely reported for decades that plastic water bottles and other consumer products made with plastics are hazardous to humans and the environment. There are several reasons for this phenomenon. The amount of plastic produced and then discarded every day is staggering! In the US alone over 2.5 million water bottles are thrown [...]
There are tens of thousands of chemicals used in consumer products and in manufacturing and the vast majority of these chemicals have not been tested to insure that they are safe in terms of exposure to humans. The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 grandfathered some 62,000 chemicals on the market in 1976, despite the [...]
Local municipalities have been adding Fluoride to their water supply for decades in the hope that it will help with tooth decay in the local population especially the poor, and the number of these is growing every year. In fact over 2/3 of the drinking water in the US is Fluoridated. Fluoride has been promoted [...]
Water is our most precious resource, we literally cannot live without out it. The past few decades has seen an incredible rise in the consumption of sodas and sugary fruit drinks that we know are harmful to us and helps to cause or exacerbate serious health problem like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity. More recently [...]
Being able to dispose of waste that is created by humans in an efficient and safe manner is an unpleasant and often times overlooked aspect of living in communities and modern life. With the population of the Earth ever increasing and our increasing ability and seeming need to create ever more and varied waste that [...]
It has been common knowledge for decades that our water supply and water ways are contaminated with a host of toxins and pollutants ranging from oil and fuel additives to toxic heavy metals like Mercury, Selenium, Lead and Cadmium. Each year numerous stories are published about unacceptable or illegal levels of these various toxins and [...]
To maintain good health the best thing that you can drink is water. Natural water contains minerals that are very beneficial to proper nutrition and to maintain good health. But over the past few decades soda and sugary fruit type drinks have replaced water for many people as their liquid of choice. These sugary drinks [...]
Last year the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of H1N1 or bird flu to be of such serious and widespread proportions that it declared a Phase 6 Pandemic. There was almost mass hysteria due to the unrelenting news stories concerning this “pandemic”, so many governments around the world spent billions of dollars procuring and [...]
Every day we use our household water to drink, wash dishes, water plants and bath. We pay taxes to ensure that this water supply provides us with enough water for our needs and to make sure that it is safe for our consumption. But what if our government wasn’t trustworthy and allowed us to use [...]
Mercury is an extremely toxic and powerful neurotoxin that is regarded as the third most toxic substance on the planet but thousands of tons of it are released into the environment by coal-fired plants, broken thermometers, cosmetics, batteries and put into our bodies in the form of dental amalgams. A big part of the environmental [...]
With the Gulf Oil Spill in the news every day, smog in the air, and gas prices inching up as summer approaches, it is easy to see why we really need a big push toward alternative and renewable energy sources. There are several technologies that hold great promise in helping us reduce greenhouse emissions and [...]
There have been many studies performed that prove that High Fructose Corn syrup is very harmful to humans and has been linked to health issues from higher weight gain and even increase in diabetes. Two new studies add to the volume of evidence concerning the detrimental effects of HFCS and that it causes far more [...]
While Natural Gas is much cleaner burning than oil and coal, it is also laced with potential environmental problems due mainly to its extraction. In Pennsylvania, environmentalists and local citizens are trying to get more stringent controls passed for what is known as “hydrofracking”. Hydrofracking is a process by which water that has been mixed [...]
This is a story that hits very close to home for me since I live about 30 miles south of Ogden and will be affected environmentally and potentially wise by what they are doing. The city of Ogden, Utah is planning to burn down 40 condemned homes near the Ogden River to help make way [...]
I should have seen this coming, but was a bit blindsided when I read this article. The psychiatric industry has come up with a new disorder that should very much alarm you and it’s called orthorexia nervosa. This “disorder” is characterized by a fixation with healthy eating! I understand that the Pharmaceutical Industry has been [...]
Mining is one of the most hazardous professions not only for the miners who work in the mine, but for everyone else as well. Mining releases hundreds of thousand of tons of toxins every year into the environment. These toxins range from toxic heavy metals like Mercury, Cadmium and Selenium to volatile organic compounds that [...]
Deceptive advertising has been around ever since advertising began. Companies or people are always trying to pass something off as something that it is not in the hope that you will perceive it to be what they say it is and ultimately increase their sales. The Coca Cola company is a master at deceptive advertising [...]
Electronic or E-waste is serious and growing environmental and health threat around the world. In 2000 over 4.6 million tons of e-waste was dumped into landfills in the U.S. alone, according to Greenpeace. E-waste is some of the most hazardous waste material that is being dumped into our landfills since it contains numerous compounds that [...]
This is a story that I completely missed and had really heard nothing about until this article but I am not surprised by the content. For the past 3 years almond growers in the U.S. have not been able to sell raw almonds in the marketplace due to previous outbreaks of Salmonella in 2001 and [...]
