Lifestyle

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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Life Less Chemical: Kids & Lice

December 3, 2009
By Kate Southwood
Life Less Chemical: Kids & Lice

Do you know what kinds of chemicals you’re using when you groom your children? If your child gets lice and you try to get rid of them using an over-the-counter remedy you need to know two things: 1. Those chemicals sitting on your child’s scalp are essentially insecticides, and 2. They don’t even work....

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Urban Farms Are in Our Future

October 17, 2008
By lowcarbonhome
Urban Farms Are in Our Future

The future of farming is going to get local.  According to the United Nations, 2008 was the first year in human history that more of the human beings on the planet live in cities versus in rural areas.  This coincides with the beinging of an era where the price oil and concerns about climate...

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