A great article on how to encourage your children to enjoy fruits and vegetables from a young age.
Raising a “foodie”
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Perfume spritz sickens 150 in Texas
Thirty four people were overcome with fumes from a co-worker’s perfume in a Texas bank, sending them to the hospital. Many others were treated on site for sickness.
The Ovenless Kitchen
Many with environmental illness will eventually find that cooking with a standard gas oven makes them very ill. In fact, William J. Rea, M.D., director of the Environmental Health Center in Dallas has said in his Planet Thrive Q & A column that “no one with...
In search of a non-toxic home
July 24, 2009 LA Times health feature and photo essay on Kathy Hemenway and her non-toxic house in Snowflake, Arizona.
A Gypsy Life: Notes from the Diaspora
Mokihana and Pete of Washington state discuss their journey with chemical sensitivity, building a tiny safe home on wheels, and their gypsy lifestyle.
New healthier housing site: MCSsafehomes.com
Planet Thrive’s new free service for safer housing & trailer listings.
Dhaka’s air ‘killing 15,000 a year’
Dhaka’s air pollution poses a serious health hazard to the city’s residents with rising respiratory illnesses causing more than 15,000 deaths a year, says the Department for Environment.
Jellyfish threaten to ‘dominate’ oceans
Nitrogen and phosphorous run-off from development is causing red phytoplankton blooms, “which create low-oxygen dead zones where jellyfish survive, but fish can’t.”
ALS Cases Caused By Blue-Green Algae
Cases of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, are twenty five times higher for people who live around Mascoma Lake in New Hampshire than the norm. These local occurrences of the fatal neurodegenerative disease have been linked to cyanobacteria.
Elle Magazine writer gets a taste of the wild life
Who would’ve thought that Elle Magazine would do a story on a rewilding center in New Mexico?
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