Topic: Health
(Photo: Frances Moore Lappé, noted author of "Eco-Mind" and "Diet for a Small Planet")
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By Julie Thibodeaux
Hair dressers have long relied on toxic chemicals to curl, straighten, color and bleach hair. As a...
By Theresa Mioli
For a lesson in energy efficiency and sustainability, teacher Julie Clark needs only to walk her fourth grade students through the halls of Ridgeview Elementary School in the Keller. This semester, Ridgeview, part of the Keller Independent School District, joined...
By Brandolon Barnett
A conversation with Downwinders at Risk directorJim Schermbeck on the battle for clean air in North Texas, his organization's accomplishments, the interplay between heat and ozone levels, what we can do to protect ourselves from bad air, and more.
...By Teresa Mioli
A line of students, faculty and staff clad in green snaked towards the cafeteria and waited for the cashier to swipe their card before sitting down to lunch. It was a normal start to the school year save for one big change to the college dining experience: there...
From Downwinders at Risk read at downwinder at risk
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
"Babies who were exposed to certain organic pollutants in the womb are at a highly increased risk of neural tube...
By Brandolon Barnett
What does "green" mean to you? From the opportunity for children to enjoy nature to the beauty of the smallest things around us, people who care about the environment are answering the question with entries in the 2011 Green Photo Contest by Green Source DFW. You have until the 30th to submit your entry...
By Rita Cook
When mother of two and McKinney resident Kristian Sextro decided she wanted to open a spa late last year, she knew it had to be organic. Sextro, who had worked for two years at a laser skin care medical spa before moving to a greener spa environment to learn more about organic products, finally decided it was time last...
A TCEQ public meeting in Frisco this month drew more than 60 people to discuss lead pollution coming from a battery recyling plant operated by Exide Technologies, inc. The 46-year-old plant is the only battery recycling plant in Texas.
There are 16 areas nationwide that do not meet the new federal air quality standards for lead and the Exide plant is in one of those areas. In 2009, the...
Do you enjoy the great outdoors? When you see a strange insect or plant, do you immediately run for your field guide (or Google!) and try to identify it? Do you like to share things that you find in nature with others?
If yes, then the Texas Master Naturalists may be just the thing for you!
The Texas Master Naturalist (TMN) volunteer program is coordinated by the Texas AgriLife...
