Tag: Environment
A Nation of Patients
March 8th, 2010, No Comments
I’m convinced that failure to legislate access to health care for all Americans is a means of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Where’s the Patriot Act when you really need it? Between 1956 and 1998, the conflict in Southeast Asia (Vietnam War for my fellow oldsters) caused the deaths of approximately 58,193 military [...]
Pesticides in Schools: My Testimony Before the New Hampshire Legislature
February 13th, 2010, 3 Comments
On the eleventh of this month, the New Hampshire legislative committee on the Environment and Agriculture held a hearing to discuss Bill #1456 presented by Representative Suzanne Smith. This bill proposed the creation of a committee to study the use of pesticides in the schools and other places where children congregate. Here is the [...]
Mishap or Tragedy? Word Doctors Strike Again
October 4th, 2009, No Comments
This commentary is about an article which offers an extremely serious description of the loss of millions of dollars in profits by numerous farmers in an Idaho community. Apparently, due to the drift of herbicides used many years ago on nearby PUBLIC LANDS, (pardon me for shouting since I doubt an informed public [...]
Healthier Air Quality in Your Home – A Lifestyle Choice Indeed!
August 7th, 2009, No Comments
The American Medical Association informs us that our rates of poor health in this country are highly correlated with ‘life-style’. That message really refers to choices in diet, exercise and personal habits like drinking or smoking. Yet, that is just the tip of the iceberg if we really look at the science and [...]
Are You Green or Merely Chartreuse?
May 27th, 2009, No Comments
Okay. I’ll admit it. Most of the environmentally ‘friendly’ magazines and many advocates of green society make my flesh crawl. They don’t know of what they speak because ‘trade secrets’ remain secret. The advertising these days is about what you won’t find in a product. I took Grist magazine to [...]
Fragranced Products: Truly a Surprise Package
July 6th, 2008, No Comments
This article was published in the trade journal, ‘Indoor Environment Connections:’
Fragranced Products: Truly a Surprise Package
By Barbara Rubin
Public concern continues as more unwelcome ingredients, such as asbestos and lead in children‘s toys, are discovered in a variety of imported products. A longer-running dispute continues domestically between consumers and vendors of many products boasting undisclosed [...]
The Human Genome was Not Designed with PCBs in Mind
March 14th, 2008, 4 Comments
Re; Kansas City Star article, “Independence District Flees ‘Sick Building…‘ by Mike Sherry (3/14/08)
This article announces how a school was relocated so its building could be tested for an explanation of employee illnesses. Has anyone looked at student attendance records? I was poisoned in a school but have no notion of what, if any, effects [...]
