Eco-Thinker

The North Pacific Tropical Gyre also known as the Garbage Patch – seven millions tons of floating plastic waste spanning an area twice the size of Texas. There is six times as much plastic in the gyre than there is plankton. Plankton is the area’s most abundant food source. Animals mistake this waste for food dying either from plastic poisoning or blockage of their digestive system. This plastic absorbs, transports, and releases hydrophobic pollutants (PCB,DDE,DDT) not only harming the oceans food chain, but us as well. Diseases, infertility, etc. Plastic is 100% nonbiodegradable. Reduce your plastic waste.

An Associated Press investigation found pharmaceuticals in nearly ever drinking water supply that they tested, including those of 24 major metropolitan areas across the nation. Nancy Cordes reports.

A blogging friend of mine, FeButterfly @ Living In A Toxic World, recently posted a nice top 10 hit list for harmful chemicals and I just love exposing products that contain hidden trapped treasure. These chemicals can found in common hygiene products, among thousands of other things we use daily that should be avoided, if not protested.

As the plant absorbs water, the counterweight causes the plant to lean. Rather self explanatory, which makes this item even more innovative and increases the coolness factor for just how simple it is. Perhaps the plant industry will try and cover up this new technology that threatens to extend the life of plants! We shall see.

Dr. Vyvyan Howard, head of the Developmental Toxico-Pathology Research Group and a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool in England, gives us a condensed history on the hazardous chemical soup that has resulted from the resource plundering petroleum industry. Bisphenol A is just one of many harmful synthetic compounds extensively used to produce the many plastics that you touch, breathe, wear, and consume daily.

Is it not just unfathomable that an entire area, densely populated, has to beg a greedy few to not increase pollution and dumping into their natural water source?
Even worse, this is just one of many current stories of environmental negligence by a corporation. As these proponents of big oil fluff and spin a heartless justification and trivialization of why their company growth is more important than their costumers health and well being, I am thinking to myself “how can these people look another human being in the eye and not blush blood red?”

I recently received an email containing a link that I feel is very relevant and worth sharing.Eredux.com, on the surface, has an interactive map that shows your state’s carbon score along with carbon emissions per person. But, for detailed demographic data and information on energy consumption, carbon emissions in your area, contamination levels, local gas prices and so forth just click on a state and fill in your zip code.

I was browsing the mainstream news channels and came across a report on compact fluorescent bulbs containing mercury. And although I was aware of that, to listen to the journalist explain it would have you immediately switch back to the less efficient incandescent bulbs. Even companies marketing CF bulbs were targeted by the fearful report as if they were part of a conspiracy to fill the world with mercury.