Wednesday, January 21, 12-1pm. Online. The Silent Spring Institute will host dynamic online conversation on about how policies and industry practices influence our daily exposures to toxic chemicals in consumer products, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how advocates use science … Read More
Wednesday, January 28, 4pm. Online. Dr. Philip Landrigan will present the impact of plastics on human health and climate change, the hidden costs of plastics, and actions needed at all levels to address this mounting threat to public health in … Read More
Wednesday, January 14, 7-8:15. Online. Author Sharon Udasin will discuss her new book, Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America. Learn how PFAS — a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of — poisoned the entire country. Based on original, … Read More
The unfortunate fact is that over 98% of people in the U.S. have PFAS in their blood. PFAS have also been found in wildlife, soil, and water around the world. The PFAS that have been studied are toxic at extremely … Read More
When food or beverages are heated in plastic containers such as in a microwave oven, chemical additives from inside the plastic migrate into the food and tiny flecks of plastic known as micro- and nanoplastics are also shed into the … Read More
Wednesday, November 12, 12pm. Online. In this webinar, Ryan Johnson will provide an overview of the contribution that buildings and construction make to global plastic consumption. He will highlight how plastic building materials have been found to affect health and … Read More
Wednesday, November 12, 7pm. Online. You may have heard about microplastics and nanoplastics infiltrating the human body. Maybe you saw a news article about how there’s the rough equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of micro and nano-plastics in our … Read More
This year’s GreenEXPO within the Harvest Fair in Newton Center (Langley Rd.) on Sunday, October 19 from 11–5 is your chance to explore new ways of living more sustainably. Among the vendors you’ll meet is Ecoloop Solar Solutions, a clean … Read More
I was very surprised recently to learn that my home office in the basement had an unsafe radon level, even though I had tested the home some 30 years ago when we purchased it. I was tipped off by new … Read More
Sunday September 28, 2-4pm. Watertown Savings Bank Room,Watertown Free Public Library (123 Main St., Watertown). Want to learn more about PFAS – the chemicals are now almost everywhere, including in human blood, and are being linked to severe health problems? … Read More
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