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Jan 26, 2013
Low Energy Light Bulbs Not So “Green” After All?
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Professor Chris Rhodes: Making choices about the kind of light bulbs we should be using, on the simple basis of energy consumption, and henc...
The U.S. #1 in Early Deaths. Americans had “the lowest probability over all of surviving to the age of 50.”
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The Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council released some damaging numbers this month: Americans ranks startlingly low in ...
FDA panel votes to place tighter controls on narcotics like Vicodin
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In a monumental pushback against America's narcotic painkiller epidemic, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended ...
TODAY: The day Americans gave up their digital device rights. Unlocking Mobile Phones Becomes Illegal #tech #news
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"Referencing a decision outlined in the Federal Register , Tech News Daily has published an article noting that the window to unlock ...
Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 - Slashdot
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"With a few exceptions, such as Volvo's Air Motion Concept, major automotive manufacturers have generally shied away from compresse...
PREPARE For 90% Correction? Currency War Escalating, Inflationary Targets Will Fail – Financial Catastrophe On Horizon
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Bloomberg Market exposed this danger in an article about bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, who’s doing a flip-flop as we speak: “Bond guru buy...
Where America is going... 60% of Children in Detroit Live in Poverty #economic #news
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CBS Detroit: A new report from Data Driven Detroit reveals that in spite of the many families with kids that left Detroit between 2000 and 2...
Jan 25, 2013
Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Premenopausal Breast Cancer
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sciguru : A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vi...
Researchers discover new mutations driving malignant melanoma
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Two new mutations that collectively occur in 71 percent of malignant melanoma tumors have been discovered in what scientists call the "...
EPA Releases New Report on Children's Health & the Environment in America - #Children #Health #Environment #America
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WASHINGTON – EPA today released “America’s Children and the Environment, Third Edition,” a comprehensive compilation of information from a ...
Sr. Environmental Manager Opportunity in Alberta, Canada - # Environmental #Energy #OHS #Job
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Sr. Environmental Manager - large coal fired power plant Western Canada Be key member of a plant turn around team on a 155 mw plant in Alber...
Fed’s Holdings of U.S. Gov’t Debt Hits Record $1,696,691,000,000 — Up 257%!
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( CNSNews.com ) – In data releasedThursday afternoon, the Federal Reserve revealed that its holdings of U.S. government debt had increased t...
STUDY: Smoking shortens life by 10+ years
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Kicking the habit by age 40 reduces the excess risk of death by about 90%, new research finds. People who smoke take at least 10 years off ...
Hypocrisy, mans greatest sin... Obamacare will cover everyone BUT smokers
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The Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” to its detractors — allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies up to 50 perce...
BREAKING: Underground Explosion At Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility… 240 Personnel Trapped Deep Underg
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An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep undergro...
U.S. Could Be The Biggest Electric Car Market By 2020
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There's no doubt about it: Electric car sales are going up. 2012 saw sales triple compared to 2011, and while the overall number of ele...
Hydrogen From Artificial Photosynthesis: Future For Fuel Cells?
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For the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen is remarkably hard to come by on good ol' planet earth. While the techniques fo...
Study Shows High Blood Calcium Levels May Indicate Ovarian Cancer
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A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is the first to report that high blood calcium levels might predict of ovarian cancer, t...
Researchers prevent cancer spread by blocking tissue scarring
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What to fear most if faced by a cancer diagnosis is the spread of the cancer to other parts of the body. This process called metastasis acco...
#CSR greatest profitability accrues with highest commitment to sustainability. - #Business #Sustainability
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... The Relationship between CSR and Profit Is U-Shaped The firms rated low and high in social performance tended to have high financial per...
Water for the Desert Home...there would be no such thing as waste water - #Sustainable #water
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classwarinamerica : Here’s something we need now, and may need desperately before long: a closed home water system for the desert. For place...
That water from your shower? It could water your garden. #Water saving DYI #Sustainable grey water system
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Marketplace.org : Jimmy Lizama is a bike messenger in Los Angeles. He lives his wife, Josie, and their 2-year-old son in a place called the...
Jan 24, 2013
Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose 'apocalyptic' threat, top expert says | #health Via: @Guardian
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Britain: Britain’s most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency c...
Get Involved in #Green #Milwaukee #Sustainability Plan- #Environment Work Group will host a public meeting on January 30, 2013
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You have a Milwaukee.Gov E-Notification for Environmental Sustainability Initiatives category. The Milwaukee Green Team Environment Work Gro...
Goldman Sachs Made $400 Million Betting On Food Prices, While Hundreds Of Millions Starved #humanity
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InvestmentWatch: Why does it seem like wherever there is human suffering, some giant bank is making money off of it? According to a new re...
Proposed bill makes it illegal to possess or distribute cigarettes without a doctor's prescription. #health
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...Rep. Mitch Greenlick, from Portland, is sponsoring a bill that makes cigarettes a Schedule III controlled substance, meaning it would be ...
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher | Fires double in size every 60 seconds
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Nice short review from The Art of Manliness: Fire extinguishers. You pass them all the time as you walk the hallways at work or school, and...
Jan 23, 2013
Wind turbine component failure data Infopack! Assessing failure rates & adopting effective monitoring strategies #energy
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Research indicates that component service and spare parts can take up 26% of an annual O&M budget alone - the largest single expense of ...
Jan 22, 2013
FREE #Sustainability #Energy Webinar “Multiple Facets of Sustainability - Cool Plasma Gasification” via @SustBusnMgmtLLC
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ISTC (The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center) – has scheduled adaptiveARC, from San Jose, CA, as one of the companies ISTC is currently...
Oxford University Annals of Occupational Hygiene vol 57 issue 1 is now available on line with free to access 45 other papers
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The full texts of the Editorial, the Review and the penultimate paper are free to access. 45 other papers which have been published on advan...
Jan. 21 US: OSHA Updates Guidance on Hazardous Chemical Exposures in Labs
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This article is brought to you by Occupational Health and Safety Magazine . OSHA is issuing a technical amendment to the non-mandatory appe...
Jan 21, 2013
Repost: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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This is a repost from "Our dreams shall be recognized in the words of Martin Luther King Jr." "Our lives begin to end the da...
The NEED for nature: More trees could improve mortality rates & birth outcomes #green #health via @kprengaman
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Kate Prengaman : A study published last week in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine entitled "A relationship between trees an...
The end of the E-Cat story? Andrea Rossi loses supporters for his "cold fusion" device via @gelderon52
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The story of the E-Cat, the "cold fusion" device proposed by Mr. Andrea Rossi seems to be losing interest everywhere. Yesterday, J...
Americans Collecting Disability Increased 1,385,418—Now 1 for Each 13 Full-Time Workers
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( CNSNews.com ) - During President Barack Obama’s first term, the number of Americans collecting federal disability insurance increased by 1...
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