October 29, 2011

Healthy Campbell Campaign: Remove BPA from Soup

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Thousands of people have joined a campaign on Change.org demanding that Campbell Soup Company remove bisphenol-A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to cancer and diabetes, from its soup cans.
Healthy Child Healthy World, a Los Angeles-based non-profit that helps parents protect kids from toxins, launched the online campaign on Change.org and has recruited more than 3,000 people to join, many over the last 24 hours.
“With studies linking BPA to many serious illnesses that can be heartbreaking to families, it only makes sense that we start eliminating it from our daily lives,” said Rachel Sarnoff, executive director of Healthy Child Healthy World. “We supported the ban on BPA in baby bottles that’s been adopted by many states, but older children also need protection from BPA’s potential health risks. It’s time to help companies like Campbell’s understand how important it is for us as parents to get BPA out of our cans – and our kids.”

Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Earns 2012 Urban Green Vehicle Award

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Let’s hear it for Toyota going Urban Magazine awards. All going urban. For the 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in, goes on sale in Spring of 2012.

DoSomething.org, Best Buy and EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program Helped Teens Collect 60,000 Pieces of E-Waste

E-Waste Campaign: Empowering Teens for Change

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DoSomething.org, Best Buy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR Program teamed up to encourage teens to recycle their unwanted electronics that may have otherwise ended up in local landfills. Teens across the country signed up to help at http://www.dosomething.org/ewasteand each team was able to gather an average of 300 pieces, totaling in over 59,000 pieces of e-waste.
The campaign went from August 15 to October 1 and called for teens to run localized “E-Waste Drives” in their schools, homes or communities. They got people to drop off their e-waste at their local Best Buy store and Best Buy pushed ENERGY STAR products for their next purchase.
You see folks, we in the USA throw away over 1.5 million tons of e-waste each year. Recycling is one simple step everyone can take to protect the environment!!!