Dear EarthTalk: I recently had a tissue mineral analysis indicating that my levels of the nutritional element, molybdenum, were off the chart. I believe this may be leaching from my stainless steel cookware. Is this element toxic to my body? Having trace amounts of molybdenum in our bloodstreams is not only normal but beneficial. The [...]
Two more weeks till the move! Almost everything is packed and ready to go, and I am very excited to arrive in my new home in Colorado. Looking forward to living in a city again; hope it goes well! On to some favorites I came across this past week… Southwest Airlines, a 500 plane, budget [...]
This week’s Do One Thing comes from my friend Nan Fischer, an Eco-Broker here in Taos, New Mexico. When you buy gas, tell the pump that you don’t want a receipt. Not only will you be saving some paper, but it has also been reported that these kinds of receipts are coated with BPA. Wondering [...]
Did you know that cutting down trees actually helps to stop climate change? Me neither. How about that when you chop down trees, the carbon dioxide they had absorbed through time gets trapped inside the product made from said wood? Nope, me neither. But the Forest & Wood Products Australia timber body says so, thus [...]
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990 Suburbia is where the [...]
Think just the environment is suffering from our abuse of fossil fuels? Think again. A new study by the National Institute of Sciences shows that over $120 billion dollars worth of our health care costs is caused directly by coal and oil use. Yep, just from burning those fossil fuels on a 24/7 schedule for [...]
Whoo-hoo! The first town-wide ban of bottled water is in a tiny little town called Bundanoon, Australia. With only about 2,000 residents it will only have a small impact locally, but it could have big repercussions around the rest of the world. Cities like San Francisco and NY have passed ordinances banning their governments from [...]
