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Cookie Finding fragrance-free accomodations

Those of us who need to find fragrance-free space know that environmentally green does not usually equate with healthy living but is often a sales ploy for hotels and other accommodations. For example, there may be less waste involved if towels are not laundered daily, but this doesn’t make a room safe for someone who is looking for a fragrance-free, chemically unpolluted room. Using scented products (essential oils, organics, or herbs ) or providing scented soap and shampoo results in smelly an… Continue

Added by Cookie on January 28, 2010 at 12:34pm — No Comments

Eric "Things could be worse" movies

Here is a pick-me-up list for those days when you get the blues! What are your favorites?

A Beautiful Mind

John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) was a brilli

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Added by Eric on October 25, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Cookie News, Science, and Links Summary

September 11, 2009 New Study: Cell Phones Raise Risk of Brain Tumors http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-cell-phone-cancer,0,3071221.story Hispanics face high cancer risk from breathing household chemical http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/hispanics-and-indoor-air Stanford Ho… Continue

Added by Cookie on September 12, 2009 at 8:39pm — No Comments

Cookie NEWS, SCIENCE and Links Summary by Lourdes Salvador

Playing with fire Chemical industry extinguishes effort to curb toxic fire retardants http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1179904 EPA Fines Tree Nursery for Pesticide Misuse, Worker Safety Violations http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2362 Toymaker giant Mattel exempt from toxics testing rules http:… Continue

Added by Cookie on September 6, 2009 at 3:38pm — No Comments

Cookie Our Mold-free, Fragrance-free, Pesticide-free, Formaldehyde-free contemporary Boulder,Colorado home (built to strict environmental specs for someone with environmental sensitivities) is for sale

In case you missed the photos here's a description: 3019 Sq. Ft. on a slab (no basement), 2 floors with MBR (16’x19’) on upper floor and 2 BR on main level, 2 ½ B, all tile floors, stucco interior and exterior walls, metal roof and exterior doors, all St. Charles cabinetry is metal, oak hardwood trim and solid oak doors, large office and den, LR, DR, washer/dryer room, K with walk… Continue

Added by Cookie on August 30, 2009 at 8:16pm — No Comments

Eric Corn Syrup contains mercury?

If the specter of obesity and diabetes wasn't enough to turn you off high- fructose corn syrup (HFCS), try this: New research suggests that the sweetener could be tainted with mercury, putting millions of children at risk for developmental problems. In 2004, Renee Dufault, an environmental health researcher at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), stumbled upon an obscure Environmental Pr… Continue

Added by Eric on August 6, 2009 at 9:53am — No Comments

Cookie Obama cares. Do we care enough to support reforms?

At last, we have a President who cares about the success of the country and the well-being of its people. At last, we may get some meaningful school and health care reforms. President Obama and the Congress may not get it right the first time, and that’s OK with me. At least we are not being told once again (in spite of the facts) that the US has the best health care and education systems in the world. I have never understood how anyone can honestly believe that a poorly educated populace can b… Continue

Added by Cookie on March 10, 2009 at 4:20pm — 1 Comment

Cookie Scent-free, Fragrance-free, Smoke-free, Pollution-free are all a part of healthy natural living

In an effort to convince the city of Boulder, CO to request that people using the city's recreation centers not use scented products in locker rooms or in the rooms containing weight-lifting and aerobic workout machines, I compiled an extensive list of facilities in the US and world-wide that either ban scented products or in the very least recognize that air polluted by the chemicals contained in scented products is unhealthy. The list includes hospitals, universities, schools, churches, organi… Continue

Added by Cookie on March 9, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Cookie Will organic and natural solve this problem?

In a recent pilot study that included 299 swine and 20 workers from two different production systems in Iowa and Illinois ( comprising approximately 87,000 live animals) overall MRSA prevalence in swine was 49% (147/299) and 45% (9/20) in workers. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Strain ST398 Is Present in Midwestern U.S. Swine and Swine Workers (http://www.plosone.org/article/info:do… Continue

Added by Cookie on February 10, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Eric surviving my health crisis

This is a view from our balcony of the morning sun on the front range. We moved to Boulder Colorado last year from Florida after my health deteriorated steadily for about five years. The move itself was so difficult that I got much sicker and practically stayed in bed for just over t… Continue

Added by Eric on January 14, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

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