Green Health and Wellness

According to Gallup Poll results released on Tuesday, Americans aren't worrying as much as usual about environmental issues. Between March 4 and March 7, Gallup polled over 1000 American adults, asking them if they were concerned with any of eight environmental issues:

Our friends at NRDC's Simple Steps just posted some information about plastics, recycling, and scary toxic chemicals that we should all try not to eat.

Most people agree that schools shouldn't feed kids soda or other sugary drinks. But what about bottled water? National Geographic's Daily News site published an article on Wednesday about children, health, and water. And it sounds like drinking fountains have some stiff competition.

Last week I blogged about the event NRDC hosted with James Cameron and Elvis Mitchell at Fox Studios to bring attention to the environmental message behind the highest-grossing movie in history, Avatar. We now have video clips on the event online.

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Citrus fruits - oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits and kumquats - are native to tropical and subtropical climate zones like Southern China and Northern India. However, while visiting my Aunt Vickie and Uncle Zuhair Sarafa in San Diego this past month, I was delighted to find their flowering citrus trees had been fully ornamented with bright orange and yellow fruit for picking!

Are you one of those people that pop over the counter drugs to heal your cold?

I won't bury the lead: last week the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the most prestigious international body for cancer assessment in the world, determined that sufficient evidence exists to link formaldehyde with leukemia, a cancer of the blo

Yesterday, Consumer Reports released a study of the levels of bisphenol a (BPA) in food products. They found that nearly all of the 19 canned food products they tested contained levels of BPA which have been associated with harm in laboratory animal studies.