Tis the season for sliding the slopes. However, a recent article in the Daily Camera points out that the The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), thinks that some ski waxes may be toxic. The issue is with the PFCs; the chemicals found in some ski waxes. The waxes in question are the fluorinated ski waxes – expensive but slick. The article notes, “The EPA says a derivative of some PFCs called perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, is a possible carcinogen.” This is where that whole issue surrounding Teflon cookware came from – remember that?
Because these specific waxes are so costly, …read more

Plenty of people don’t believe in global warming. Many don’t believe that toxins can and do harm our children. If environmental issues were less serious though we might not have a need for places like the Centers for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research. There are 14 centers total right now but that number has grown quickly from the original 8 started in 1998.
The goal of the Children’s Centers is to address the fact that children are extra vulnerable to the negative effects of environmental exposures. Each of the current centers researches environmental risks along with how to reduce …read more

The brand new requirements for Energy Star computers became effective in July and already more than 500 newly qualified product models are on a shelf near you. There’s almost no reason for a family not to buy green when it comes to computing issues.
For both work and home these new greener computer choices are clearly advantageous both to our budgets and the earth. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
“If every U.S. household and business replaced old computers with new Energy Star qualified models, we would save more than $1.8 billion in energy costs over the next five years …read more