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The Dangers of Pesticide Exposure - Go Organic Instead

This is the second in a Hub Series on Organic Gardening at home.  Anyone can do it, and I will show you how!  In this Hub we take a look at the health hazards of using some of the more common pesticides.

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Chemical mixtures and human health

In our everyday life, we are exposed to many chemicals. But, in reality, we are exposed not to single chemicals but to mixtures of chemicals. So the effect of mixtures will be different from that of single...

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10 Reasons to Choose Organic

Farmers have it rough. Our society is no longer largely agrarian, and yet our population continues to grow, and as a result so do food needs. It is very difficult for small farming operations to keep...

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Which Coffee Is Most Eco Friendly And Sustainable?

Enjoyed my millions, coffee is one of the world's most popular beverages. Unfortunately, much of the coffee that we drink daily, is produced using unsustainable social, and environmental practices. Huge...

1 comment    pesticides fair trade organic coffee
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Is going backwards the way forwards?

As I look with dismay and horror at the state of the world today it often occurs to me that it really was better when I was a child. It really was better when I was a teenager and young man too, perhaps not...

18 comments    life water cancer
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Killer Compost in the Garden

Through the years, farmers have relied on government officials and agriculture to sustain their crops with chemicals, freeing them from loss of crops through devouring insects and disease and reap the...

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Organic Weed Killer for Your Organic Garden

If you have an organic garden is seems senseless to pollute it with toxic weed killers. You can find organic weed killers are many garden centers, on the Internet, or make your own. Organic weed killers are...

5 comments    recipes organic weed
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Lawn Gone

Used to be, my neighbours would cast dubious looks at my yard from their own expanses of green. Now, they’re asking me for advice. This spring a ban on cosmetic use of herbicides, fungicides and...

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Feast or famine

As a result of recent food safety issues a bill HR 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 introduced by Rosa Delauro - a democratic representative from Connecticut - in February of 2009. sounds...

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Transgenic Organisms -- Transgenic Plants

What in the world is a transgenic organism? Ever notice the phrase, “Non-GMO” on the food items you pick up at the grocery store? Do you know what it means? GMO actually stands for “Genetically Modified...

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