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How I got my big, fat, Energy Star refrigerator

By admin On February 4, 2012 7 COMMENTs

Mindy & her fridge

(Photo: Courtesy of Mindy Pennybacker)
Forget the Maidenform Bra: For more than a decade, I’ve dreamed of myself with an Energy Star fridge — but never thought I’d ever own one.

Why dream? They make a big, green difference. Refrigerators are the single most energy-draining appliance in the average home, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

To qualify for EPA’s Energy Star, however, a new fridge must now

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Five facts about chemicals in your body

By admin On February 3, 2012 NO COMMENTS

Environmental Health News, one of TDG’s trusted sources of news, today published a story about biomonitoring, the practice of testing real people for exposure to chemicals.

The promise of biomonitoring is great, providing, “a treasure trove of data, one that might help unravel some of the world’s most enduring medical mysteries,” as EHN writer Harvey Black put it. Why? Because chemicals can interact with genes and

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Would you use a bidet to save water and paper?

By admin On February 2, 2012 NO COMMENTS
bidet & toilet

(Photo: Brandi Sims / Flickr)

EarthTalk is a Q&A column from E / The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk: Wouldn’t a return to installing bidets in bathrooms at home go a long way toward cutting disposable tissue use and saving forests? – Peter K., Albany, GA

Besides being more sanitary than toilet tissue, bidets — those squirty accessories so popular in Europe, Japan and elsewhere that clean your underside using

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