Why you should look for TCE in your drinking water -by Britt Mittemeijer Our local paper today carried an article about the suffering TCE (trichloroethylene) in the drinking water supply has caused many inhabitants of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. TCE is a known human cancer-causing chemical (EPA). Fuel leaks and other sources of pollution … [Read more…]
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is fighting every minute of every day to finish what we started and achieve our vision of a world without breast cancer. Fulfilling the Promise Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In … [Read more…]
Comparing Water Filter Systems Concerned about the safety of your drinking water? Don’t really know how to compare the quality of various brands of water filters on the market today? More than 30 years after the passage of the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety of our drinking water is often in the news … [Read more…]
The New Message In The Water by Multi-Pure Multi-Pure and the amazing Executive Marketing Team led by Vice President of Network Marketing, Regina M. Noriega, invite you to discover the “New Message in the WATER.” This motivational message of health and hope explains how to become partof the Multi-Pure Business Opportunity to transform and improve your … [Read more…]
Help Clean Up Florida Waterways Bottled water does serious damage to our environment, and it should pay its fair share of the cleanup. Ask the Florida Legislature to pass SB 118, a bill that will use a surcharge on bottled water to fund a new program to clean up bottled water trash from the environment. … [Read more…]
Recent coverage of hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium 6) in some of our nation’s water supplies vilified the wrong institutions: our municipal water utilities. The real culprits are the industries that dump this and other pollutants into our drinking water sources, and the elected officials who are short-sightedly failing to fund our drinking and … [Read more…]
How Much Chlorine Is In Your Drinking Water? Kenton Jones from Multipure takes us on a demonstration with OTO, a swimming pool chemical that measures chlorine in water. Check out this awesome demonstration on dry foods such as pasta, jasmine rice and pinto beans when added to chlorinated water. OTO can be purchased at any pool … [Read more…]
Fluoride: Sodium fluoride (silicofluoride), is an industrial-grade hazardous waste material made during the production of fertilizer. Its past history includes patented use as rat poison and insecticide. Dr. Paul Connett is leading the fight against mandatory water fluoridation. People are finally waking up to the hazards and are now demanding that governments remove this deadly … [Read more…]
Glacier Water Services, the largest seller in California and the U.S. of filtered water from vending machines, claims its machines dispense chemical-free drinking water. But the first statewide tests of vended water for chemical contaminants found that one-third of Glacier machines sell water that fails state health standards, and two-thirds fail to live up to … [Read more…]
Readers Digest, that is! This is a photo of David Green and longtime Multi-Pure Master Builder Ron Kafker, sharing a copy of the August 2011 Readers Digest. The lead article is called “How Safe is Our Water?” It focuses on the contamination from fracking, perchlorate, rainwater runoff, and pharmaceuticals in the water. You might ask, … [Read more…]
News reports say a parasite known as the “brain-eating amoeba” has claimed its second young American victim this month. Christian Strickland, a 9-year-old from Henrico County in Virginia contracted an infection after visiting a fishing camp in his state. He died of meningitis on August 5. This week, health department officials confirmed that the deadly amoeba–officially … [Read more…]
Plastic is forever Plastic creates toxic pollution at every stage of its existence: manufacture, use, and disposal. Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, including the small amount that has been incinerated and has become toxic particulate matter. Plastic poisons our food … [Read more…]
By The Fluoride Action Network No matter who you are, you can change local fluoride policy. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 72.4 percent of the U.S. population—nearly 200 million people—were using public water systems with fluoridated water. Since this report was published, the CDC’s Oral Health Division has … [Read more…]
Is Arsenic In Your Drinking Water? A one-time oral dose of 60,000 ppb of arsenic will kill you. That’s no more than 1/50 the weight of a penny, which shows how dangerous arsenic really is. It’s unlikely you won’t be exposed to that much arsenic at one time. However, there’s a very good chance you … [Read more…]
How to Make Your Own Soda by Meg Favreau – Wisebread.com I will admit that I am not a huge soda drinker; most of the time, it makes my teeth hurt. But when I do drink soda, I want it to be worth it. I’d much rather drink a bracing, sinus-opening ginger beer or a … [Read more…]
Beth Terry From Fake Plastic Fish Interviews Jaskson Browne Jackson Browne rants to blogger Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish about bottled water after the screening of the film Tapped organized by the Plastic Pollution Coalition. He says bottled water is “inconvenient” and compares albatross chicks that starve from eating plastic to our society in … [Read more…]
Although there are hundreds of brands of home water filters, they all rely on a small number of technologies to remove contaminants, That does not mean that every filter using a given technology is as good as another, but it does mean that you can get a good idea of the general pros and cons … [Read more…]
Nine-year-old Rachel Beckwith didn’t live long enough to reach her goal of raising $300 to bring clean water to African villagers. She died in a 13-car accident on Interstate 90 in Bellevue, Wash., last week, the Seattle Times reported. Since then, hundreds of thousands of dollars have flowed into the charity page she set up … [Read more…]
Terry Winckler Pictures Of What House Voted To Support Anti-Clean Water Act bill endorses toxic slime in Florida Anabaena algae bloom in Caloosahatchee River at Franklin Lock, June 17, 2008. (John Cassani) The U.S. House of Representatives was a in a cruel mood, yesterday, when it passed H.R. 2018, a bill that would … [Read more…]
Book Review by Shane Shirley Smith I just finished reading the Introduction to Susan Freinkel’s newest book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story and I feel empowered. Susan Freinkel’s new book, Plastic, is a must read to add to your green reading list. Let me rephrase that, Susan Freinkel’s newest book is a must read to … [Read more…]