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Marketing Junk Food to Kids Could Soon be Illegal

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via SMH It’s a topic that sparks heated debate, and one that we’ve tackled here before: Should corporations be allowed to market unhealthy food to children? When a county in California banned McDonald’s Happy Meals , it caused a veritable uproar. Happy Meals, are one of the most cannily marketed kids’ products — yet many feel that it’s the parents’ role to decide what to let their kids eat, regardless. So I’m curious to see how the nation will take the news that market… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Road Plan Threatens World’s Best Riesling Vineyards

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Mosel valley. Photo by Dittmeyer via Flickr On the steep hillsides of the Mosel valley , in southwestern Germany, the vineyards are tended by hand, as they have been since Roman times. It is not uncommon for a modern vintner to have a family history in the region going back hundreds of years. But while this long heritage of viniculture has produced the world’s best

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Are Fake and Bakers on the Decline? New 10% Tanning Tax Takes Effect

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Celebrate INDEPENDENCE with Tannign TAX CC, Flickr via Evil Erin We’ve reported here before that tanning beds are on par with cigarettes in terms of cancer risk. In fact, the ultraviolet radiation they put out are about as lethal as arsenic–yes, poison. So we were happy to see the first part of the new health care law , which adds a 10% tax to indoor tanning services, went into effect Thursday;… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Finally! Detergent Industry Puts Voluntary Ban on Phosphates in Household Dishwasher Detergents

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

After Years of Saying it Can’t be Done The American Cleaning Institute (ACI, formerly the Soap and Detergent Association), represents most of the soap-makers in the U.S., has announced a voluntary ban on phosphates in household dishwasher detergents. This follows the banning of phosphates in many US states (such as Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin) and similar bans in Europe, and t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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They’re baaack: Formaldehyde-filled FEMA Trailers Housing Gulf Spill Workers

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

That’s the tongue-in-cheek image we used when the General Services Administration put the FEMA formaldehyde tainted trailers up for sale. We wondered “who would think of buying them and what they could possibly doing with them.” Now we know; they are reselling them and using them to house workers cleaning up the spill. Four years or so after their manufacture, one would think that much of that formaldehyde had outgassed already; that’s what the industry says about formaldehyde binders in particle board and plywood. But evidently they still stink…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Picture is Worth… In 1991 The Fattest US States Were As Thin As The Leanest in 2009

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

2009: photo: Ed Yourdon via flickr. TreeHugger has done post after post on why people in the United States are fat , detailing everything from the effects of farm policy, suburban develop, the recession, and sedentary lifestyles on the growing number of Americans with soaring Body Mass Indexes. (

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Baltimore Appoints a Food Czar

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Good.is Baltimore is a set beset by “food deserts”—vast urban areas without access to anything but fast food, snack cakes, bags of chips, and soda. The city is not unique in it’s situation—cities across the country face the same problem—but it is one of the first in the country to make a serious effort to address the problem with the appointment of a food policy directors …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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FDA Moves to Slash Antibiotic Use in Agriculture

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via MediaSpan Some 100,000 people die every year in the United States as a result of infections caused by bacteria known as ‘super bugs’, which have developed a resistance to antibiotics due to their overuse in the livestock industry . Anyone familiar with factory farming and the fast food industry knows that these antibiotics are pumped into animal feed to make them grow larger and faster unnaturally, and that the livestock grow sickly and dependent on them. The FDA has long sought to combat… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Newly Identified Porpoise Nearly Too Endangered to Save

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: ori2uru /Flickr Researchers often wondered whether the finless porpoise , which has a range from Japan to China, India to the Persian Gulf—in fresh and salt water—might not be a single species. New research , however, indicates that at least one group—which lives in China’s Yangtze River—is genetically distinct from Neophocaena phocaenoides as a whole. If verified, … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Balancing the Weights of Poverty and Population

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: SlapBcn /Flickr The 21st century began on an inspiring note: The United Nations set a goal of reducing the share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty by half by 2015. By early 2007 the world looked to be on track to meet this goal, but as the economic crisis unfolds and the outlook darkens, the world will have to intensify its poverty reduction effort…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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