Articles tagged “Pesticides”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Go with the Flow By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 29 2008 Okay, ladies, let's talk about feminine hygiene, namely the environmental impact of chucking hundreds of applicators, pads, and packaging every year. Organic, all-natural disposable cotton pads and tampons: Natracare has a line of unbleached, chemical-free feminine-hygiene products, including tampons made from 100... + READ MORE

Say it with Organic Flowers By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 29 2008 Around 70 percent of flowers sold in the United States are imported, according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.Online retailers such as California Organic Flowers, Diamond Organics, Organic Bouquet, and Organic Style, offer U.S.Department of Agriculture-certified organic blooms-purchased from American family farmers... + READ MORE

Detox Your Home: Wash Up With Ordinary Soap By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 23 2008 Nobody like germs-after all, pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis, strep throat, and food poisoning are just some of the loathsome maladies we can blame bacteria for. Another study, that same year, by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health determined that 75 percent of the antibacterial... + READ MORE

Have an Apple, It's Nothing to Wheeze At By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 17 2008 An apple a day...yeah, you know the rest. But that long-standing adage might have something to it, after all: Two 2007 studies discovered that consuming apples and apple juice led to decreased asthma symptoms among children, while cutting their risk of developing asthma in the first place.The more recent study,... + READ MORE

Certify Your Backyard as a Wildlife Sanctuary By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 10 2008 Host a healthy and sustainable nature sanctuary, right in your own backyard. Already adapted to local conditions, native plants are easy to grow and maintain, generally requiring less fertilizer and water, as well as less effort to rein in pests.Besides tending to the needs of native birds, you should also extend some... + READ MORE

Build a Green Library: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Dec 5 2007 This is the second post in a series-read the first post here-about recommended reading, for building a green library in your home. Unfortunately, they are limited to that farm's locale; you can n't eat like this at Whole Foods, and, though "big organic" is far better than your run-of-the-mill conventional food, while... + READ MORE

Drink to Health, Love, and the Environment By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Dec 4 2007 Before you raise your glasses this holiday, consider getting wines that toast the environment even as you imbibe. The Organic Wine Company: A family business that imported the first French organic wines into the United States Difficulty level: Easy + READ MORE

Dip Garden Cuttings into Ground Cinnamon By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 26 2007 The domestic doyennes at Martha Stewart (November 2006) suggest one way you can spice up your garden: Dip your garden cuttings in ground cinnamon before potting. + READ MORE

Build a Downspout Bog Garden By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 20 2007 Here's an alternative to the rain barrel: A downspout "bog" (or wetland) garden, a virtually maintenance-free way of capturing rainwater for your plants. Although rainwater is naturally soft and free from minerals, chlorine, fluoride, and other harmful chemicals, water that flows across impermeable surfaces (such as... + READ MORE

Avoid Pesticides in Fruit and Veggies By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Nov 1 2007 To help supplement the five easy ways to eat organic, the Environmental Working Group has crunched the numbers and come up with a handy list of the "dirtiest" (and "cleanest") fruits and vegetables, in terms of pesticide residue you'll encounter in foods by the time they gets to the grocery store. Peaches, apples,... + READ MORE

Eat Organic: Five Easy Ways By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Oct 25 2007 Not every family has the financial wherewithal to make the transition to organic food, but choosing organic versions of just a few foods that frequent your dinner plate can raise the percentage of pesticide- and hormone-free nosh in your diet, without creating huge waves in your spending. + READ MORE

Brew a Better Cup of Tea By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Oct 23 2007 Tea aficionados have long known that you get a richer brew when you allow whole, uncut tea leaves sufficient room to unfurl during the steeping process. Loaded with their own extraneous packaging baggage, such as eco-unfriendly chlorine-bleached virgin paper, cotton string, and staples, tea bags produce a prodigious... + READ MORE

Create a Greener Dorm Room By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Sep 6 2007 How geared up is your dorm sweet dorm for this year's adventures in higher education? Okay, so you've finally found the sheets that will actually fit those extra-long cribs; you may even have come to terms with the staid regulation furniture you'll have to face for four whole years, but that doesn't mean you can n't... + READ MORE