environment

The Water Wormhole: Seriously! What Should We Be Drinking?

Unless you've been living, well, in a well, you know that bottled water is OUT for a number of reasons (BPA in the plastic, too much plastic as it is, fossil fuels burned in transport, to name three). Fracking, fluoride, chlorine and toxic pollutants make our tap water a frightful slurry most lips find no thrill in sipping. But is filtering enough? What's the best water to be drinking to avoid toxins, and for optimal hydration? Let's have a look. Distilled: Vaporized to remove any residues, ...[READ MORE]

CONTEST: Write Your Clean Water Letter to the Editor

Source: http://ecowatch.org/2012/write-your-clean-water-letter-to-the-editor/ Write a 250-word Letter to the Editor Telling Why Your Favorite Wetland or Small Stream Deserves Protection under the Clean Water Act. National Wildlife Federation and River Network As many of you know, two Supreme Court decisions and bad policies from the Bush Administration have thrown the issue of Clean Water Act protections for certain creeks and wetlands into question. The Obama Administration is poised to ...[READ MORE]

I Heart Tap Water Video Contest Winners

Students Demonstrate That Anyone Can Take Back the Tap Elizabeth Klein from University of Cincinnati was announced as the winner of our I Heart Tap Water video contest with her stop-motion animation video. Klein’s video and other finalist videos fulfilled the following requirements: a declaration of love for tap water, some discussion about bottled water consumption, and why the student‚ college or university should break the bottled water habit. The Winning Videos Food & Water Watch ...[READ MORE]

Bottled Water Sales are Down!

Bottled Water Sales are Dropping! This is great news! More consumers are saving every penny, and choosing to drink tap water instead of expensive, wasteful, bottled water. What does this mean? We are winning the fight against bottled water! We have a long way to go, but this is definitely a great start! Food and Water Watch is reporting a 12.6 percent drop in sales! Nestle is working harder to gain back consumer confidence. Watch out for more deceitful advertising. Hanging on for Pure Life Why ...[READ MORE]

Environmental Booty Celebrates Earth Day With A Super Cool Giveaway!

Happy Earth Day 2012! Celebrate and Win Over $1400 in Green Swag... Win Over $1,400 in Green Living Treasure in the 2012 Great Green Earth Day Giveaway from EnvironmentalBooty.com and Our Eco-Partners! April is Earth Month and Earth Day is April 22 and this year, once again, EnvironmentalBooty.com and our Eco-Partners are making it easy and fun to celebrate.  Our 2012 Great Green Earth Day Giveaway is giving you the chance to win a green living prize package of some of the hottest ...[READ MORE]

USGS: Recent Earthquakes ‘Almost Certainly Manmade’ – EWG

Environmental Working Group By Dusty Horwitt and Alex Formuzis A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research team has linked oil and natural gas drilling operations to a series of recent earthquakes from Alabama to the Northern Rockies. According to the study led by USGS geophysicist William Ellsworth, the spike in earthquakes since 2001 near oil and gas extraction operations is “almost certainly man-made.” The research team cites underground injection of drilling wastewater as a possible ...[READ MORE]

Atrazine in Water Tied to Menstrual Irregularities & Low Hormones

Women who drink water contaminated with low levels of the weed-killer atrazine may be more likely to have irregular menstrual cycles and low estrogen levels, scientists concluded in a new study. The most widely used herbicide in the United States, atrazine is frequently detected in surface and ground water, particularly in agricultural areas of the Midwest. The newest research, which compared women in Illinois farm towns to women in Vermont, adds to the growing scientific evidence linking ...[READ MORE]

EPA Underestimated Number of Polluted Florida Streams, Lakes and Rivers – Earthjustice

Floridians may end up paying a few more pennies a day in the coming years to upgrade outdated sewer systems that are contaminating public water supplies, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) said in a report on March 6. The report says that even more Florida lakes, streams, rivers and springs are polluted than previously thought, and that earlier estimates by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) underestimated the scope of the problem. In predicting costs, the EPA estimated that ...[READ MORE]

Fracking Hell: The Untold Story – Linktv.org

An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can contaminate water supplies in major population centers including New York City, are the health consequences worth the economic gains? Marcellus Shale contains enough natural gas to supply all US gas needs for 14 years. But as ...[READ MORE]

Could Fracking Contamination be The Cause of Mystery Illness in LeRoy?

(CNN)-- In the tiny New York town of LeRoy, one thing is for sure; since October, 16 people suddenly have developed uncontrollable twitching and verbal tics. Three months later, they -- and the rest of the town -- are still wondering why. Doctors have diagnosed most of them with conversion disorder, saying that stress is the likely root of their physical problems. "What happens is there traditionally some kind of stress or multiple stressors that provoke a physical reaction within the body," ...[READ MORE]