GreenSpace: Homeowner is off the grid - and feeling quite empowered
He did it to be sustainable. To be self-reliant. Then there was the philosophical side, the pure satisfaction of it all.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Seriously, a perfume for babies? Chemicals and allergens and all?
High-end Italian fashion house Dolce&Gabbana announced a new perfume recently - a scent not for babes, but for babies. Yes, infants.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Sandy Bauers: Pa. takes up fight over labeling genetically...
When Annmarie Cantrell, a chef and wellness educator, gives cooking demonstrations, she always talks about the importance of fresh, unprocessed food and her concerns about genetically engineered...
View ArticleGreenSpace: This bulb might turn you on
There's good news in the lighting aisle. LED bulbs, which have been a tough sell because they were too expensive, too blue, and just too weird, are beginning to look, and act, more like that old...
View ArticleGreenSpace: Graduating from disposal to recycled clothes
This spring, thousands of college students across the nation will aim to be below average. To that end, they'll go through their dorm-room closets, dressers, gym bags, and more, seeking to weed out all...
View ArticleGreenSpace: Time to go to bat for bats
Bats are in trouble, and you can help. In 2006, scores of dead bats were found on the ground outside a cave in Albany, N.Y. Since then, biologists have been in a race to identify the cause and stop the...
View ArticleGreenSpace: Information About Bats
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has materials on bats, bat houses, and the summer count. Go to www.pgc.state.us, click on "wildlife," then click on "wildlife" again, then "Appalachian bats."
View ArticleGreenSpace: Cancer clusters or chance?
At the chemical plant in Toms River, nylon stockings would melt on the legs of secretaries sent on errands to production buildings.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Far too few of us use sunscreen
Joseph Sobanko's patients often ask him which sunscreen is best. That's especially true this time of year, when people are going outside and the sun's rays are at their brightest - and most damaging.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Problems with a key hand-cleansing chemical
Think of all the things you've touched today - the door handles pulled, the elevator buttons pushed, the railings held, the coins counted. All of them were coated with germs. Afterward, so were your...
View ArticleGreenSpace: How much tuna should kids eat?
Adam Finkel figures he's lucky. His daughter never really liked tuna to begin with. And she's 13 now, beyond an age where tuna consumption is most worrisome. Her brain is closer to maturity.
View ArticleGreenSpace: How Phila. officials keep the water clean and healthy
Routinely, the Philadelphia Water Department tests its product for 100 "regulatory parameters" - things that might not be so good for us. But at least once a shift, a chemist will walk over to a...
View ArticleGreenSpace: Here's how to battle the bugs
A colleague came in from gardening the other day and realized - itch! - that she had unwittingly provided a blood feast for a horde of mosquitoes.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Best to be your bees' keeper
Have you thanked a bee lately? Roughly one out of every three or four bites we take is due to the busy little bees that pollinate our fruits and vegetables.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Who's monitoring food additives?
About 10,000 chemicals are added to Americans' food to make it taste better or look better, to thicken it, preserve it, or otherwise improve it.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Try cleaning the eco-friendly way
The soap scum is building up in the shower stall. Time to get out the cleaner. You spritz it and, ah, that nice lemony scent!
View ArticleGreenSpace: Proximity to industrial plants' benzene linked to cancer
Benzene may seem innocuous - it is clear, colorless, and has a slightly sweet odor. But it's one bad actor. It's a carcinogen, and you don't want to be breathing it.
View ArticleGreenSpace: How to enhance breast cancer education and prevention
As the nation becomes saturated with pink this month - for breast cancer awareness - likely nowhere is it as eye-popping as on the fields of the National Football League.
View ArticleGreenSpace: Firms act on problem chemicals
Three major U.S. companies took steps recently to replace problematic chemicals with safer ones in consumer products. Environmental and health advocates are cheering, predicting that the changes will...
View ArticleGreenSpace: Pa., N.J. new fronts in food-label fight
On Tuesday, voters in Washington state defeated a measure that would have required labels on food containing genetically engineered ingredients.
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