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As promised, if the person who verbally assaulted me in my email will not say sorry I’ll be posting his/her childish email to me in this blog so that people can learn from it. Every minute is a learning process. We don’t stop learning, whether consciously or unconsciously.

In environmental terms, fast food is pretty much invariably not green. From the somewhat savvy coffee and bagel shops to the golden arches — the excess trash, factory farm practices, and the fact that it’s served in a drive-thru pretty much stack the deck against these places.

A panel of experts working for Health Canada is recommending that the current levels of fluoride in water ingested by children and infants be lowered. The experts propose that Health Canada adopt a level of 0.7 mg/L as the optimal target for drinking water.

I’m really stuck on that disappearing bee thing. It’s a serious problem, and I’m glad to help get the word out. Plus there are so many funny videos! It must be the bee costume that inspires folks. This “Missing Bee” piece shows the gamut of bee personalities.

According to a recent study by the University of Utah, the age of your home directly relates to your level of obesity. In fact, women’s risk of obesity dropped 8 percent for every 10 years older her house was, and men’s risk dropped by 13 percent.

Organic Agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects.

If gas prices have you searching for an alternative for short commutes, and you just want something dependable once and for all, a type new bicycle might be the reply for you. The used bike market is booming right now for obvious reasons, but whether you don’t have the mechanical know-how or the

I take it all back, Beijing was a great choice to host that year’s Olympics. Preparations for the Summer Games don’t usually produce much newsworthy material — heck, sometimes the entire event goes by with a big yawn.

We all knew that those soy-based, fake meat products from your grocer’s health food section weren’t nearly as manly as hearty chunk of red meat — and now someone’s gone and proved it. According to researchers at Harvard, the stuff lowers your sperm count.

Yerba Mansa is getting buzz as the next cross-over herbal remedy, claiming a place next to echinacea and goldenseal in your medicine cabinet. The plant is native to southwestern North America and has expanded been used by Native Americans and Hispanic settlers, who gave it the name meaning “calming herb.” As a medicinal aid it has some similarities to goldenseal.