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INFOGRAPHIC: Unexpected Chemicals in Your Food - The Health Ri...
Posted by ContentWala
Thu, Oct 06
Thanks to awesome team at EcoMom.com for this wonderful Infographic detailing the health risks of pesticides in your veggies.
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Worried About Pesticides? Get On A Pesticide Sensitivity Registry
Posted by Eco Home Consultations
Mon, May 30
Photo Credit: Flickr/ken mccown Maybe you read my little rant last week about coming home to my condo complex and feeling a bit powerless over what toxic chemicals were being used outside my front door. If not, click her...
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Why Genetically Modified Food is About to Become More Dangerous
Posted by Jess
Tue, Mar 22
While most of us understand that genetically modified food isn't necessarily the best way to go, a combination of its cheap price and our lack of knowledge on what is genetically modified and what isn't tends to keep many of us from avoidin...
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Reduce Pesticides by Avoiding These Three Crops
Posted by Alexandra Gnoske
Mon, Feb 14
The easiest way to reduce the overwhelming amount of pesticides in the environment is to avoid buying the crops that use them, or buy their organic counter part. When you think of Pesticides you probably don't think of health food, and yo...
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10 Foods To Buy Local Instead of Organic
Posted by LowImpactBetty
Wed, Sep 15
Why do we buy organic? When a food is not organic, it is often grown or raised using man-made chemicals, pesticides, fossil fuel or sewage-based fertilizers, or genetically modified seeds. Ideally, we'd all like to buy foods that don't hav...
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Pesticides in Food: What To Eat And What To Avoid
Posted by Surinder Saini
Sat, May 22
Use of pesticides on fruits and vegetables is very common. So it is important that we are aware of what we are putting on our plates. Of the 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides used annually in the US, less than .01% actually reach their inten...
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The Dirty Dozen
Posted by Kela Powers
Thu, Apr 29
(Photo: Getty Images) Pesticide residues are now threatening the nutritional value of essential fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately not all the pesticides used to kill bugs, fungus, and grubs on produce washes off under your faucet. G...
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To Plant, To Grow, To Taste.............Organic Gardening........
Posted by Sandy Spell
Tue, Mar 30
I am an avid Gardener and love being outside with the dirt, bugs, and worms creating my landscape. I thoroughly enjoying seeing my new creations come to life growing and blooming - just like a picture. Whats even better th...
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Looking Ahead At 2010 With Green Colored Glasses
Posted by Bob Kurz
Sun, Dec 20
There was once a time not too long ago when many of us lived our lives with no real concern for what was going on outside our windows, not because we purposefully turned a blind eye, but simply because we were caught up in a whirlwind of...
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Cricket Fricassee -- Coming To A Dinner Plate Near You.
Posted by Elizah Leigh
Wed, Aug 19
What's the 11th most effective way to save the world, just slightly behind irrigating your houseplants with reserved canned vegetable water and/or weaving abandoned spider webs into incredibly sustainable dish sponges? Just give up meat....
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