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Life Less Chemical: Dry Cleaning

January 10, 2010
By Kate Southwood
Life Less Chemical: Dry Cleaning

Image via Wikipedia First the bad news. Dry-cleaning fluid (Tetrachloroethene, also known as perchloroethylene or “perc”) has been classified as a probable human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It has also been classified as a hazardous air contaminant by the Environmental Protection Agency, and has been shown to cause menstrual...

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Turning Your Dog Into a Good Environmental Citizen

December 21, 2008
By lowcarbonhome

Our dogs and cats are our companions and we naturally want to take care of them. If you are a pet owner you probably give a lot of thought to what you feed your pet.  What you probably don’t think about is what happens to the waste they generate once you dispose of it.  Most...

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Plastic? Hah! We don’t need your stinking plastic

August 6, 2008
By lowcarbonhome
Plastic?  Hah! We don’t need your stinking plastic

The next time you make a purchase and the clerk blindly puts your 2 item purchase in a bag…….REFUSE. More over educate them. Tell them that you do not want to take a bag that is going get caught in a breeze and wind up decorating an inner city tree this winter. Tell them...

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