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Support Safe Cosmetics & Score EWG’s Sweet Holiday Gift Bag

Photo: EWG Environmental Working Group ‘s (EWG) Skin Deep Cosmetic Database is my go-to source when researching and reviewing beauty products. They brought us the Toxic Dirty Dozen , the truth about shocking chemicals in popular perfumes , and much ,

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James Beard Foundation Launches Sustainability Initiative

Photo: David Barrie You won’t find a chef in this country that doesn’t hope that one day they will get the honor of a James Beard Award . It’s the Emmys of chefdom and as an avid gastronomical enthusiast you can’t help but to look for the award on the wall of your favorite high-end eatery. Most recently, the folks over at the James Beard Foundation have designed an award honoring our most responsible culinary innovators. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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James Beard Foundation Launches Sustainability Initiative

James Beard Foundation Launches Sustainability Initiative

Photo: David Barrie You won’t find a chef in this country that doesn’t hope that one day they will get the honor of a James Beard Award . It’s the Emmys of chefdom and as an avid gastronomical enthusiast you can’t help but to look for the award on the wall of your favorite high-end eatery. Most recently, the folks over at the James Beard Foundation have designed an award honoring our most responsible culinary innovators. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World Health Organization Calls BPA Legislation and Control "Premature"

Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce TreeHugger was one of the earliest sites to raise concern about endocrine disrupting chemicals like Bisphenol A; we were loud in our support for the removal of polycarbonate bottles (an easy target as there are lots of alternatives) and for the elimination of BPA epoxies from tin cans . Treehugger was the first to note that BPA is used in the lids of home canning products , and recently covered the issue of

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World Health Organization Calls BPA Legislation and Control "Premature"

Yoga: It’s Not About Ownership, It’s About Origins

Editor’s note: Though TreeHugger normally writes about the environmental aspects of yoga, over the weekend Jessica wondered whether a religious group can really own yoga , referring to an awareness campaign about the origins of yoga by the Hindu American Foundation . Well, HAF contacted us asking if they could reply to the Jessica’s article, which seemed only fair — even if we’re momentarily deviating from our normal green-themed content. The following is a guest post by Sheetal Shah, Senior Directo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Yoga: It’s Not About Ownership, It’s About Origins

Anesthetic Gases Cause As Much Warming As 1 Million Cars

photo: Artur Bergman / Creative Commons According to new research done by the University of Copenhagen and NASA , the anesthetic gases used during surgery have huge global warming potential , but yet there is no obligation to report them–nor seeming awareness about them on the part of … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Anesthetic Gases Cause As Much Warming As 1 Million Cars

West Nile Virus Rates Higher in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Image: Ashok Prabhakaran via flickr An EPA-funded study found recently that not only is the West Nile virus more prevalent in low-income neighborhoods, but that economic conditions, including personal income, are the greatest predictor of disease occurrence. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Papal Science Advisors Say World’s Poor Need GM Crops & Scientists Have Moral Duty to Develop Them

photo: Luigi Guarino / Creative Commons The Vatican’s science advisors have come out in support of genetically modified crops , saying that they scientists have both the right and moral duty to produce them to help the world’s poor, Ne… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Holy Cow: the World’s Happiest Cows and Best Milk

Photo: Bhaktivedanta Manor It’s cow bliss: the dairy in Hertfordshire, run by the Hare Krishnas. There are only 44 of them but life is sweet: on this farm all the cows have names, they are hand-milked whilst listening to Sanskrit music and they feed on grass all year. Calling it a ” Hilton for Krishna Cows “, the new farm is built on the site of George Harrison’s old mansion in the countryside. It is a state-of-the-art “sustainable sanctuary for cattle where animals and nature are given the highest respect.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Food Safety Bill Passes Senate: What it Means for Eating in America

Photo: NASA Images , CC The US Senate just passed the first major update to the nation’s food safety policies in decades — the bill gives the FDA the ability to test foods for dangerous pathogens, to issue food recalls, and requires that it do better and more frequent inspections of industrial food production plants. All of that is good news for the nation’s food consumers — namely, us. The stream of cases of tainted peanut butter, eggs, spinach, etc had drastically, and rightfully, weakened our confidence in natio… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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