Here's the book
Grow Your Own Drugs
By James Wong
Hardcover, 224 pages
Reader's Digest
List price: $19.95
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Skin Deep (Cosmetic Database) is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group.
Skin Deep helps fuel the nationwide Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, womens, environmental and consumer groups working to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of dangerous chemicals and replace them with safer alternatives.
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A postcard + pop-up card + garden = Postcarden! It’s pretty much just that, but also a completely unusual way to send along a little big of greenery. Each comes with a packet of cress seeds—add water and watch the seeds grow—and choose between three models: botanical, city, and allotment. The mini-gardens last about two weeks, and the cress is totally edible. It’s currently only available in the UK, but it is making it’s way to us very soon. In the meantime, check out the adorable video of how it works, after the jump ...
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tags... environment, recycling
from Whole Foods blog
Tell USDA That You Care About GE Contamination of Organic Food!
In 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its illegal approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. The federal courts sided with CFS and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed the impacts of the plant on the environment, farmers, and the public in a rigorous analysis known as an environmental impact statement (or EIS). USDA released its draft EIS on December 14, 2009. A 60-day comment period is now open until March 3, 2010. This is the first time the USDA has done this type of analysis for any GE crop. Therefore, the final decision will have broad implications for all GE crops.
TAKE ACTION HERE AT THE CAMPAIGN SITE
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tags... advocacy, news article
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