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While on one of my Whole Foods trips the other day, I went to the whole body section for some soap and toothpaste. Picking up soap is always an ordeal for me; I’ll stand in front of the shelf reading labels of ingredients trying to decide which one to use next. […]
Can you live without lights for 1 hour and rely on candles? Do you know what a difference one hour would make? What if millions of people did it?
That’s exactly what happened on March 31st last year in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour. […]
Many people have learned not to trust the FDA when it comes to the final word about safety. Amazingly, the department that is supposed to protect our food and drugs has been proven to be less than honest in the past, and approve drugs it shouldn’t have. The Environmental Working Group has put together a […]
Every time I’ve used a public urinal, I’m appalled at the amount of water is used in one visit, not to mention multiplied by the the number of people that day times the number of bathrooms in the US. It’s enough to make my eco-brain spin and is enough to convince me to not flush.
Apparently […]
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Throughout our lives, we contribute a huge amount of unnatural chemicals and pharmaceuticals into our environment, and it doesn’t stop when we die. The embalming process adds all sorts of carcinogenic chemicals to our bodies with embalming, not to mention the chemicals used to create and preserve the casket (check out the […]
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E. Coli doesn’t bring up the most comforting of images, but that might soon change if a professor in Texas A&M University has anything to say about it. Thomas Wood, a professor in the Artie Mcferrin Department of Chemical Engineering, is genetically modifying the bacteria in hopes that it […]
Though gardening is not usually a staple of the Swye posts, I came across a blog post with some great ideas on how to use recycled materials to start your garden. If you’re thinking about what plants you want in your garden this spring and summer, now is the time to start some seedlings so […]
