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Toxic Flame Retardants Rampant in Baby Products, New Study Finds

    Products designed for newborns, babies and toddlers — including car seats, breastfeeding pillows, changing pads, crib wedges, bassinet mattresses and other items made with polyurethane foam — contain multiple toxic chemical flame retardants, according to a first-of-its-kind peer-reviewed study published today in the Environmental Science & Technology journal. via Huffington Post.

Why we can’t shop our way to sustainability

    Eco labels are cluttered, confusing and unreliable. Organic food gets a tiny slice of the market. Most shoppers don’t pay much attention to environmental factors. Perhaps understandably so. They’re busy, or  ignorant. Or they don’t care. Which makes me believe that we can’t count on consumers to bring about a sustainable food system. [...]

A Bloody Business – the cruelty inflicted on Australian cattle in Indonesian slaughterhouses

    If you want to eat beef, you should know where it comes from, and you should be able to stomach what you’d see if you clicked through and watched ABC’s Four Corners exposé on the horrors of Indonesian slaughterhouses. Who’s culpable? The Indonesians? The Australian farmers? Or the consumers? Via ABC’s Four Corners.

Asia Must Address Climate Change Impact on Water and Food

    The seminar, “Climate Risk and Resilience: Securing the Region’s Future,” examined the threats posed by climate change to water and food security in the region and explored strategies to manage those threats. Key solutions include scaling up efforts to “climate proof” infrastructure, manage disaster risks such as floods and droughts, and adopt regional [...]

Excessive Consumption Pushing Our Planet Into Ecological Debt

    There is a term called “biocapacity” which is the capacity of the ecosystem to generate resources and absorb its wastes. When we reach a point in a year when consumption around the Earth exceeds its biocapacity, that day is marked as the ‘ecological debt day’. According to NEF (New Economics Foundation), for the [...]

Products Made from Oil – Surprising Products That Are Made of Oil

    Ammonia Antifreeze Antiseptics Art supplies Artificial limbs Aspirin Astroturf Awnings Bandages Cleaning products Candles Carpets Caulking Clothing Crayons Creams Cosmetics Cutlery Dentures Dice Dyes Electronics Film Fishing line Floor wax Foam Glasses Glue Glycerin Guitar strings Heart valves Helmets Ink Insulation Lubricants Medicine Nail polish Nylon Paint Paint brushes Panty hose Petroleum jelly [...]