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Why is Disposable Bottled Water Use Growing?

My hope is that you already own a good reusable water bottle. In fact, hopefully everyone in your family has one. Clearly though, based on recent data, few families are using reusable water bottles as often as they should. That’s too bad. According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG) Americans drank approximately 215 plastic bottles [...]

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Are you wasting too much water at home?

Water use (or misuse) is serious business. Of course you should use reusable water bottles, but water use goes beyond that, extending into your home. If you’re concerned, that’s smart. If you haven’t given much thought to water use in your home, check out this cool How Much Water is your Home Wasting? infographic below. [...]

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Blog Action Day 2010 Wrap-Up: Water Issues

Today is Blog Action Day and the topic up for discussion is water. Following are my Blog Action Day 2010 posts: Water is not a never ending resource in the USA Green Movie Review: FLOW How Organics Help Conserve & Protect Water OR you can read past posts about water issues here at Growing a [...]

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Green Movie Review: FLOW

Being that it’s Blog Action Day and since the topic is water, I figured it’s due time I reviewed FLOW. FLOW is hands down one of the best eco-minded movies I’ve seen; and I’ve seen many. Honestly, I think this is required viewing. They should be showing this in schools, workplaces, and well, everywhere. About [...]

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Water is not a never ending resource in the USA

Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic everyone is discussing is good ol’ water. Conserving and reusing water is essential. While the oceans are large and the rain seems plentiful (especially here in Oregon), water is not a never ending resource. Water is a huge issue. According to Water.org: Nearly one billion people – [...]

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New Story of Stuff Video – Story of Cosmetics!

I’m a huge fan of the Stuff series. I’m also a huge fan of organic body care industry reform. Mash them up and weeeeee! Check out the newest, just out this week, Story of Cosmetics.. Also see – Organic vs. Green Body Care

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Body Care Product Ingredients To Avoid

You know, with summer here and so much to post about I’ve sort of let the non-toxic body care series slide. In case you need to catch up, we first looked at how to keep toxic body care products and cosmetics out of your home. Then we looked at USDA Certified Organic body care products [...]

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Body Care Product Ingredient To Avoid: Synthetic Musks

Found in: Nitromusks known as musk ketone and polycyclic musks along with Galaxolide and Tonalide are most commonly found in many perfumes for women, lotions, colognes and body sprays and fragrance for men. They’re less commonly found in exfoliating products, acne treatments, facial moisturizer and other body care products. Health concerns: The biggest issue with [...]

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Body Care Product Ingredient To Avoid: 1,4-dioxane

Found in: Who knows what? An analysis by the Environmental Working Group suggests that 1,4-dioxane may be found in 22% of the more than 25,000 products in the Skin Deep database of cosmetics products BUT you likely won’t see it on an ingredient list. 1,4-dioxane is a contaminant not an ingredient and the FDA does [...]

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OCD Kitchen Water Saving Habits

Ever since I watched FLOW (a movie that literally changed everything I thought I knew about water) I’ve developed all these little OCD water habits in the the kitchen. Not that I wasted water before. I always tried to conserve, but I’d do little things like let the coffee pot run over as I filled [...]