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Is Your New Phone (Apple iPhone, Perhaps) Cancer Causing, Too?

February 27, 2010

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My cell phone makes me feel funny. Does yours?

I couldn’t tell if it was my better body awareness from yoga or my generally strong cell phone neurosis (long live the bees!). Every time I held my phone up to my ear, I felt a vibratory drum-like sensation as though something external and vampire-ish was sucking life out of me. Dash in a little of my hypochondria and you can imagine the visions of brain tumors, breast cancer and salivary gland cancer</a…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bisphenol A, It’s the New Asbestos and It’s Everywhere

February 11, 2010

Why it matters:
“Endocrine disruptor” and “synthetic estrogen”… that’s why.
Recap:
Unless you’ve been living under a rock– an unfairly stigmatized exercise of strength, endurance, and will-power, but sadly also a impediment to education and worldly awareness– you’ve heard all the bad news [...]

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25 Percent of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Are Leaking Radioactive Chemicals

February 4, 2010

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Leaks Tritium photo
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, VT, is leaking radioactive tritium. Photo via nrc.gov.

Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com’s Naturally Green section.

UPDATE: This post has been updated from its original version on 2/04/10.

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