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Why light bulbs are accelerating global warming and mercury contamination Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Energy Saver statistics to be printed on washing machines, dryers and other household appliances, but NOT on incandescent light bulbs (which are, by any measure, the least efficient household appliances of all)? I think we should start with mandated labeling that shows the lifetime cost of each bulb sold at retail so that consumers can start to see the different in the total cost of ownership right there at the point of purchase. That would, for the first time, make consumers acutely aware of what it costs them to operate a light bulb, not to even mention the cost to the planet.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Home appliances recycled in fiscal year 2002 included air conditioners, televisions, refrigerators, and washing machines. Personal computer products recycled included desktops, notebooks, CRT displays and LCDs.5 As stipulated in the company's 4th Environmental Plan, the entire group of Mitsubishi Electric companies should devote the utmost efforts to develop and introduce to the market Eco-Products and Hybrid Eco-Products that reduce negative environmental impact throughout the entire product life cycle.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

More than seventy products fall under the purview of the directive, including computers, washing machines, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, toasters, medical devices, radiotherapy equipment, fluorescent lamps, television sets, video games, cordless telephones, candy vending machines, and "automatic dispensers for hot or cold bottles or cans.

How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Paul D. Blanc, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Unfortunately, at higher water temperatutes, such as those typically used in American washing machines, the same catalyst that worked so well in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands bore right through the clothes being washed. In a plot twist reminiscent of Middlemarch, archrival Proctor and Gamble pounced quickly, seizing on the trouble and creating a public relations fiasco for Lever. This was followed by a fiscally painful recall. The organic manganese bleach catalysts were put aside indefinitely.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Maytag is one of the market leaders for washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, and other home appliances. When I was looking for a new refrigerator for our home, I saw a 20.3-cubic foot bottom-freezer refrigerator from Amana that was Energy Star rated and priced from $1,999 to $2,225, depending on the extras. I also looked at Jenn-Air models that were Energy Star rated. Eventually I learned that both Amana and Jenn-Air are brands that Maytag manufactures. (The company's other brands include Maytag, Hoover, Dixie-Narco, and Jade.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Sewage Recycling Even the most hardcore environmentalists sometimes shy away from dealing with sewage and residential "wastewater" (aka gray water, which has been used in sinks, showers, and washing machines, but not in toilets). However, a number of well-designed compact sewage-treatment systems make residential-water reuse easy and clean. The Brazilian company Mizumo supplied a test system for the EcoHouse Urea project. Intended for small urban lots, the unit measures 3.9 x 8.5 x 6.9 feet (1.20 x 2.6 x 2.1 meters).

Perfect Health the Natural Way Mary-Ann Shearer See book keywords and concepts

So what should we do—throw away our car keys, vacuum cleaners, and washing machines? Well, that would do wonders for the environment, but it is not quite practical in this day and age. What each of us should be doing is finding an exercise program that best suits us and that fits comfortably into our lifestyles. Ill What sort of exercise, you might ask? An aerobic form of exercise is the most important. Not necessarily a gym aerobics class, but exercising aerobically or "with air.

Food Fight Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen See book keywords and concepts

Some devices like washing machines and elevators save energy in great amounts, but even the small savings from devices like electric toothbrushes and TV remote controls become sizable when added up over a year, a decade, and a lifetime. These devices have become standard equipment for living. Day by day, year by year, calories get banked (as body fat) because we are not forced to spend them. As with nutrition, physical activity is more difficult for the poor.

Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work Tanya Harter Pierce See book keywords and concepts

In the same way, organochlorines are also released into the air after chlorine from laundry detergents mixes with organic material from clothes in our washing machines! Unfortunately, organochlorines are so persistent in our environment now, that probably every person on Earth, as well as almost all animal and marine life, have been contaminated with them. In fact, people considered to be average Americans have been shown to have 177 different organochlorines in their bodies when tested.

Living Downstream Sandra Steingraber See book keywords and concepts

New evidence suggests that at least some of the problem may stem from exposure to natural and synthetic estrogens found in women's urine— and so researchers investigating the gender-bending potential of sewage are now turning their attention from washing machines to toilets. Phthalates, the plasticizers with the nearly impossible name, turn out to be the most abundant industrial contaminant in the environment. At least two have now been identified as estrogenic, and traces of both have been found in food.

Hormone Deception D. Lindsey Berkson See book keywords and concepts

If you live on the East Coast or your water ( GOOD WATER Since exposure to many disinfection by-products comes mainly from inhalation from showers, washing machines, sinks, and toilets, I asked a number of scientists involved in home pollution if water filters at the main source of entry of the home would help. They all said no—that the gallons of water running through a house each day would overtax any filter within just one day. So I called up Greg Friedman at the Good Water Company in Santa Fe. He is a local water genius of sorts and very committed to helping people have safe water.

By the time water gets into your sinks, showers, or washing machines, unless it has been filtered, the water usually contains these contaminating compounds. Even though only 2 percent of the women in the California study had a high enough exposure to these chemicals to increase their risk of miscarriage, the epa is planning to lower the allowable limits of trihalomethanes by 20 percent. In the meantime, health officials advised pregnant women to boil tap water for a minute and put it in the refrigerator or to leave carbon-filtered tap water standing in the refrigerator for several hours. Dr.

Living Downstream Sandra Steingraber See book keywords and concepts

Most clothing tagged as "dry-clean only" can in fact be professionally cleaned with the use of water, special soaps, and reengi-neered washing machines that allow computerized control over humidity, agitation, and heat. (Pressurized carbon dioxide also holds promise as a nontoxic solvent for cleaning textiles.) The Boston area, for example, is home to one such wet-cleaning operation, a pilot project of the Toxics Use Reduction Institute. I recently delivered to this shop a down coat, a silk dress, a badly stained antique kimono, and a pile of my best wool, cashmere, and rayon suits.

Humidifiers, dishwashers, and washing machines all transform volatile waterborne contaminants into airborne ones, as does cooking. These sources of exposure are thought to be particularly worrisome for infants and women home all day engaged in housework. The simple, relaxing act of taking a bath turns out to be a significant route of exposure to volatile organics. In a 1996 study, the exhaled breath of people who had recently showered contained elevated levels of volatile organic compounds.

Conscious Eating Gabriel Cousens, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The Flanagans have found that ELF (extremely low frequency) signals from hair dryers, TV sets, computers, washing machines, and clothes dryers all decrease colloid stability. They have also found that any type of food processing, such as cooking, microwaving, and food irradiation, breaks down the protein coatings of the biological colloid particles in the fluids of the food. The result is the destruction of the zeta potential of the foods. The zeta potential may be referred to as the "life force" in enzymes and live foods, as well as a measure of their SOEFs.

101 Things You Don't Know About Science And No One Else Does Either James Trefil See book keywords and concepts

Fuzzy-logic washing machines monitor the amount of murkiness in the wash water and adjust the length of the wash cycle accordingly. Fuzzy logic controls fuel flow and transmissions in some new model cars as well. But you are most likely to encounter fuzzy logic in the operation of modern "point-and-shoot" cameras, in which sensors monitor the clarity of several areas of the image. Instead of demanding that the picture be perfectly in focus everywhere, the logic system sets the lens so that the focus is good enough in the test areas.

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

Researchers estimate that people could receive from 6 to 100 times more of the chemicals by breathing the air around showers, baths, dishwashers, and washing machines than they would by drinking the water. No estimate has been made of the health risk posed by inhaling the chemicals, but a joint study by the EPA and the National Academy of Sciences has attributed 200 to 1,000 U.S. cancer deaths each year to inhaling chloroform from water while bathing. Experts advise people taking showers to close the bathroom door and open a window. Where Does Your Water Come From?

Hand-cranked washing machines, iceboxes, and gas ovens simplified everyday chores. Carpenters' pattern books (catalogs of popular domestic housing styles) were available to common men and women wanting all the modern conveniences at a price they could afford. Though solidly built, the houses were loose in construction, the buildings often drafty and able to breathe. Natural building materials were used in designs that took advantage of natural ventilation techniques and daylight. Then, with World War II, a watershed occurred.

New Choices in Natural Healing: Over 1,800 of the Best Self-Help Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine Bill Gottlieb See book keywords and concepts

Put appliances such as washing machines on rubber cushions, which help absorb the sound. And try adding carpets and drapes, which tend to muffle sounds that rattle off bare walls and floors. If you can't eliminate a sound, you can at least try to mask it with a more pleasant sound. Try some soft, soothing music, says psychotherapist and stress management expert Emmett Miller, M.D., of Menlo Park, California. Play it just loud enough to block whatever other sounds you hear.

The Origin Diet: How Eating Like Our Stone Age Ancestors Will Maximize Your Health Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D. See book keywords and concepts

Labor-saving devices—from washing machines and vacuum cleaners to fax machines and hair dryers—were supposed to free more time for leisure, but have only increased our expectations of how much can get done and how clean things should be. If your possessions are running your life, you might consider scaling down your lifestyle. Find ways to live a less affluent life with more time to spend on your priorities. It might mean big changes, like trading in your full-time job for job sharing, switching from a two- to a one-career family, or not buying on credit.

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Radon dissolved in the water escapes into the indoor air when the water is sprayed in showers, washing machines, and other mechanisms. The EPA estimates that at least 8 million people may have undesirably high radon levels in their water supply. The risk is limited to people using groundwater: The radon from subterranean rock formations leaches into the groundwater and cannot escape into the atmosphere. Water from surface sources such as rivers or reservoirs is not a problem because the radon will bubble out into the atmosphere before arriving at the faucet.

Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

Stores that sell refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, dryers, water heaters, and other home appliances are prominently displaying the machines' energy efficiency ratings. People are turning the heat down, or off, when rooms aren't occupied or in use. They are saving energy by caulking and weather-stripping, and insulating the heating ducts in forced-air heating svstems. And they are reducing air conditioning costs by closing the blinds or curtains on hot days and opening the windows at night.

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