18-year-old Erin Schrode is on a crusade to get harmful chemicals out of beauty products. She moonlights as a model (recently featured in Seventeen magazine), has testified before the California Legislature, helped found a national coalition called Teens Turning Green, and started an eco-friendly body care line now sold in Whole Foods stores nationwide. [...]
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Pants for Poverty work with over 7,000 tribal cotton farmers of India who run and own their own organization, the world’s first farmer owned marketing company for fairtrade and organic cotton. Your Pants to Poverty purchase supports change for India’s poorest farmers, most of whom are in “Suicide Belt,” an area where on average 26 farmers commit suicide every day due to unfair trade. [...] #3 CLIMATE BILL.. VICTORY OR DEFEAT? While most environmental groups are hailing the passing of the ACES (aka Waxman-Markey) climate bill, some like Greenpeace gave up and called for a “no” vote. Here are the details. #2 BATTLEGROUND WEST VIRGINIA Daryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and RAN director Mike Brune were arrested while protesting a Massey Coal [...] [...] GreenDig.. a countdown of the most talked environmental news stories of the day with special guest Paul Smith of Triple Pundit. #3 American Lung Association issues sobering report about the ‘State of the Air.’ 3 out of 5 Americans are breathing air that is hazardous to your health. California is hardest hit — 6 out of [...] [...] |
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