Category “Environmental Issues”

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Drink From Your Non-Plastic Water Bottle…

…the well-known company SIGG announces that that the liners of many of its reusable metal water bottles (i.e. the part of the bottle which comes in direct contact with the water!) contain Bisphenol-A (BPA), an infamous chemical long suspected to...
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Interesting News Items You Might Have Missed vol. 10

Here we go again with a full list of recent news items you should read in order to be an informed member of the yoga world! 1) The Washington Post highlights yoga people who make a difference! It’s often observed...
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Would You Trust a Study About Reusable Bags Funded by the Plastics Industry?

…We wouldn’t! To be honest though, the study didn’t really turn up anything especially damning about reusable bags (but we’re sure its sponsors would have liked it to!)  Funded by the Canadian Plastics Industry, the research basically found that if...
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“Scary” New Food Documentary is Receiving Excellent Reviews

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times calls it “one of the scariest movies of the year” and describes it as “an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding,...
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Some Cool Food Tidbits

We’re delighted to see that food politics and the movement away from industrialized agriculture has become quite the hot topic lately.  It’s true that this important cause has had a small group of dedicated followers in our country for decades, but...
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Happy Earth Day, Everybody!

Earth day 2009 from Zoltan Ladanyi on Vimeo....
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Green Gyms!

by Nicole Mercedes What if your gym workout did more than just benefit your personal health? What if it contributed to the health of the planet as well? In Hong Kong, California Fitness (subsidiary of 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide), runs...
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The Story of Stuff

This 20-minute animated movie will hold your interest as it connects the dots between the production and consumption of “stuff” and many environmental and social issues affecting our world today. (Plus, it has a cool name. ) The film is...
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Fresh Info On Plastics (Hint: More Bad News)

We found these two article links on the informative culinary website Culinate. The first is an intriguing investigative report called “The Real Story Behind Bisphenol A: How a handful of consultants used Big Tobacco’s tactics to sow doubt about science...
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