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Tree Free Environment PDF Print E-mail
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newspaper--coffee-283pxCreating a Tree Free environment in your home and workplace has major benefits for the environment and will greatly reduce your carbon footprint.

Consider reading your newspaper and magazine subscriptions online. World and local news can be sourced on the web and it is more up-to-date than the daily papers. Newspaper publishingis a carbon-intensive industry. It can’t be great for the environment to slaughter CO2 gulping forests to produce newsprint. Also consider the hundreds of thousands of copies of newspapers distributed by fuel guzzling planes, trains and lorries before consumers send them on, after brief perusal, to the landfill. Doesn't make sense!

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Hydroponics Hormones More Expensive Than Gold? PDF Print E-mail
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chemical-jars-283pxWould you eat hydroponic produce after taking notice of new claims of growth hormones being touted as the holy grail of hydroponic fertilizers. It certainly brings new questions to the debate on ethical food production.

It has been reported that hormones to promote amazing growth in hydroponic crops cost $500,000 USD per gram making gold look cheap by comparison.

A Seattle based international hydroponics nutrients company is conducting innovative hydroponics plant science research with ultra expensive auxins,

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Were you conned into paying for tapwater??? PDF Print E-mail
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water-bottle-drink-283pxYour expensive bottled water may have come from a well in an industrial facility parking lot or a polluted creek down the road. In fact, up to 40 percent of bottled water is bottled tap water that may or may not have received additional treatment.

It gets worse - the metal antimony and heavy metals has been found in many bottled water brands. One study that looked at over 60 brands of bottled water produced in Europe and Canada found concentrations of antimony that were more than

100 times the typical level found in clean groundwater (2 parts per trillion). It also found that the longer a bottle of water sits on a shelf -- in a grocery store or your refrigerator -- the greater the dose of antimony present.

The biggest offenders were packaged in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers, which are the bottles typically

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More Green Schools? PDF Print E-mail
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green-schools-1Step by step we are becoming greener. We are making an effort to run more eco-friendly homes, while offices, companies and other places of business, like the Hearst Tower in New York City, use energy-conserving appliances, air conditioning, and heating units.

Happily, schools are the next institution to turn green. Since 2000, nearly 100 public and private schools have been certified as eco-friendly by the U.S. Green Building Council, according to an article in USA Today.

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