Tag Archives: toxins

Tell Congress to Save America’s Pollinators

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Tell Congress to Save America's Pollinators
Beyond Pesticides is championing a new effort to create national protection for bees and insect pollinators. The proposed bill comes after 50,000 bees died in an Oregon parking lot last month, due to application of neonicotinoid pesticides. Read their call to action, contact your congressperson, and spread the word! On July 17th, Representatives John Conyers… Read more »

Plastic Health Harm: Your Body and the Global Community, 6/27/13

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Plastic Health Harm: Your Body and the Global Community, 6/27/13
The final event in our Breaking the Chains of Plastic event series focuses on consumer plastics, and the hidden, global story these everyday products take through their production, use, and disposal. Sorting through the news about health harm, there can be too much information or not enough, leaving it unclear how to respond. How do… Read more »

Plastic-Free Living Workshop with Beth Terry, 6/8/13

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Plastic-Free Living Workshop with Beth Terry, 6/8/13
You’ve heard the news, read the stories, and detected a difference. Now you’d like to find even more ways to get plastic out of your life. It’s easier (and more fun) than you may think! In this workshop, author and community activist Beth Terry will lay out pathways for replacing plastic with less harmful materials.… Read more »

Good News? BPA Is Officially Toxic In California

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Good News? BPA Is Officially Toxic In California
One of the most widespread chemicals in our bodies, bisphenol-A or BPA, has been added to the list of reproductive toxins that require warning labels under Prop 65. The decision from California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) will mean that products containing hazardous levels of BPA will have a warning label. This… Read more »

Beth Terry Is (Almost) Plastic-Free on KQED’s Forum and TED Talk

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Beth Terry Is (Almost) Plastic-Free on KQED's Forum and TED Talk
For those who missed her events at the Ecology Center, Beth Terry was recently featured on KQED’s Forum program, along with two people who stepped up to take her Plastic Trash Challenge. We’re big fans of Beth for showing what is possible, and inspiring others to make changes with her. Her book, Plastic Free: How … Read more »