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Is this a turning point for the world’s forests?
Actions always speak louder than words but a document coming out of the UN climate summit last week has the potential to halve the world’s natural forest loss within six years, and to end it within sixteen. The New York…
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Off to save the Amazon
This is an interview with Panacea Peru owner Emily Shaw about her business exporting Amazon botanics outside of South America, but first… …you need to know that just after Christmas I’m jumping on a plane and heading off to save the…
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The cancer prevention diet: an update
When I attend environment industry events these days I’m often approached by people who ask me for an update on the “cancer prevention diet” I introduced to readers in a series of online articles a couple of years ago. A…
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The Lac Megantic, Quebec explosion
It was with great sadness that I learned this weekend of the tragic train derailment, explosion and loss of life at the town of Lac Megantic, Quebec. Ironically, we had just finished printing and mailing the Summer 2013 edition of HazMat…
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New info from an in-depth article on the Deepwater Horizon spill
Our sister publication HazMat Management focuses on contaminated site cleanup, new technology and pollution abatement. We have a strong readership (and growing) in the oil & gas sector, and in oil services companies. So I thought an in-depth article that appeared on…
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Obama’s next opponent: our vast network of climate denial think tanks
According to the Guardian, the funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of think tanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarizing “wedge issue” for hardcore conservatives.
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Thoughts on the insourcing boom
By now most readers will have learned that Apple is moving some of its computer production to the USA. Apple won’t be making the units directly, but hiring a contractor. This was seen as big news, because the trend, especially…
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Energy Conservation, Climate Change and the 3Rs (6Rs?)
One point that is lost or downplayed in most discussions about some of the themes in my recent book is that the 3Rs hierarchy and 6Rs principles (http://practicalaction.org/6rs) have vital implications in terms of climate change, pollution prevention and energy conservation.
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Toxins lurking in green tea
NOTE: I will be in Las Vegas this week at Waste Expo. If you are also there, please look me up! – ed. I’m researching an article about the health benefits of tea, about which I will write in greater…
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The cancer-prevention lifestyle, six weeks in
Six weeks ago, at the beginning of February, I launched a series of online articles in this space about protecting oneself from exposure to sources of toxins from environmental sources, foods or personal grooming and home cleaning products. The first…