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

According to The Home Depot's own Web site, "We sell more FSC certified wood than any retailer in America and at the same time we have transitioned more vendors to FSC certified wood than any other retailer in America."29 Another feather in The Home Depot's environmental cap is that it has reduced purchases of Indonesian lauan (another form of meranti—high quality mahoganylike plywood—that is taken from the Indonesian and other equatorial rain forests) by more than 70 percent recendy, according to its Web site.

And" you won't have to go farther than your local home depot, which is widely recognized as a very progressive purchaser of wood products whose stores offer environmentally conscious FSC-certified wood products that ensure forests?particularly rain forests—are logged in a manner that will promote their diversity and survival. According to The Home Depot's own Web site, "We sell more FSC certified wood than any retailer in America and at the same time we have transitioned more vendors to FSC certified wood than any other retailer in America.

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

I cringe to think about how much water could be contaminated by the recent fluorescent light giveaway programs hosted by big box retailers like The home depot, which gave away an astonishing 1 million fluorescent lights containing approximately 3 million mg of mercury (that's a whopping 3 kilograms of mercury!). And on what day did they choose to distribute these toxic light bulbs all across the country? Earth Day, of course! (It would all be rolling-on-the-floor hilarious if not for all the deformed babies that will probably result from widespread mercury contamination of our environment...

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. See book keywords and concepts

Farmers are able to pick out the color of their salmon from a color wheel that looks exactly like the ones you see in the paint section of home depot. I'm not making this up— I've seen it. It's called the SalmoFan, and it's an actual fanned salmon color wheel where you can choose the shade of red or pink you'd like your "product" to be.

The Secret History of the War on Cancer Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts

This is why Australia, Cuba, Canada, California and Venezuela, and many firms like Wal-Mart and home depot, are moving to ban inefficient conventional lightbulbs.4 Today at Harvard, a focus on life cycle costs is changing much more than lightbulbs. One of the world's most prestigious and richest universities, Harvard is full of impressive, decaying stone buildings that are always in need of various repairs and restorations. Recently resigned President Lawrence H.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

Sometimes it seems, as in my friend's case, as if nurses and doctors don't even read a patient's chart before deciding how to treat them. home depot does a better job of tracking a box of nails than your local hospital does in tracking you, the patient. Later, the Longmans discovered how little the various specialists involved in Robin's case seemed to consult with one another. In one emotionally devastating meeting, Phillip writes, The discussion began with various members of Robin's "team" optimistically discussing her prospects for reconstructive surgery.

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

I hope The home depot stops giving away toxic fluorescent lights and starts selling LED lights instead. Isn't it interesting how the U.S. government requires 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.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber See book keywords and concepts

As Larry Davidson (and home depot) puts it: "You can do it; we can help." Along with Courtenay Harding, John Strauss, professor emeritus of psychiatry and my mentor at Yale, was one of the early researchers to show that people with schizophrenia could actually get better. A turning point occurred about 1985. Strauss was interviewing a patient, based on a structured interview, when the woman stopped him and said: "Why don't you ever ask me what I do to help myself?"30 This led to a paradigm shift in John's thinking.

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World Lynne McTaggart See book keywords and concepts

He rushed to home depot, which did not stock copper shielding but did have aluminium shielding, which could also act as a rudimentary antenna. He purchased some two-by-fours, placed them on glass bricks so that they would be isolated from the ground, and used them to assemble a "wall." After he had attached the wall to an EEG amplifier, he began playing around with the effects of his hand, waving it back and forth above the box. As he suspected, the amplifier tracked the movement. His hand movements were generating signals.

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

If BlueLinx wanted to appear to be a wood products industry leader and not a predator, it would take a strong stand and severely curtail its importation of Indonesia wood products—much like Centex, IP, and The home depot have done. That would send a message to rain forest plunderers. BlueLinx sells directly to building material dealers, home centers, distributors, manufacturers, and government agencies. Do-it-yourselfers and building professionals also find their products at home centers, building material dealers, and lumberyards.

In California, BP is working with the home depot to promote their Solar Home Solutions package and make it widely available to consumers. BP expects its upcoming solar energy efforts to focus on providing "on-grid" installations in key markets, while continuing with "off-grid" projects in developing countries. BP also sees a lot of potential in wind power. In 2004 BP's joindy owned 22.5 megawatt wind farm in the Netherlands completed its first full year of operation, providing enough power for 20,000 typical Dutch homes.

Another feather in The Home Depot's environmental cap is that it has reduced purchases of Indonesian lauan (another form of meranti—high quality mahoganylike plywood—that is taken from the Indonesian and other equatorial rain forests) by more than 70 percent recendy, according to its Web site.30 "The minimal amount of lauan purchases that remain in Indonesia are strategically placed with vendors that are aggressively pursuing certification, and have been engaged in third-party audits." It isn't so difficult to save a tree or to plant one.

From 2003 to 2004, home depot had an increase of 35 percent in sales of Energy Star-certified appliances. www.homedepot.com Information and News Co-op America For years, Co-op America has been a lone voice in the wilderness of green anonymity putting together environmentally conscious consumers with environmentally conscious companies. Their Web site remains a great starting point for virgin green consumers to get their feet wet as they begin to submerge themselves in the total green consciousness experience.

Breaking a compact fluorescent light bulb could cost you $2,000 in toxic mercury cleanup Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Because Bridges knew that CFLs contain hazardous materials, she called home depot for advice on how to clean up the broken bulb. The store directed her to a Poison Control hotline, which advised her to call the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The DEP sent a specialist to Bridges' home who found that the mercury from one broken CFL created mercury levels in the child's bedroom that were greater than six times the state's "safe" level for mercury contamination.

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

Instead, sustainable suppliers gained an advantage when major retailers like home depot began giving preference to certified lumber. Further impetus has come from the LEED [see Big Green Buildings and Skyscrapers, p. 247] green-building program, which awards one of its coveted points for using FSC-blessed wood. Beware of imitations: a year after FSC started up, Big Timber's main trade association, the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA), created its own standard, called the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

Interestingly enough, the largest seller of duct tape, home depot, made windfall profits on his comments. Now upon leaving the government, Tom Ridge has been given a lucrative job on the board of directors of home depot! It sounds like a payoff to me! President Bush bypasses Congress and during its recess fills posts at the Federal Trade Commission. This is an outrage and shows how the administration puts its puppets into various government agencies and uses these agencies like Hitler used the Gestapo and Stalin used the KGB.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target, home depot are all going to wither and die. They were strictly manifestations of the cheap oil final blowout and they will not survive beyond it under the conditions of the Long Emergency. Wal-Mart will not be able to profitably run its "warehouse on wheels" when the price of oil fluctuates chronically (always along an upward trend line), and supplies become less than completely reliable.

How to build a pharmaceutical factory in your back yard and grow your medicine for free Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Cheap, commercially-available pharmaceutical factories What's really fun about all of this is that you can go to practically any home store out there -- home depot, Target or Lowe's -- and buy these miniature pharmaceutical factories in envelopes, so all you do is add water and they build themselves. It's really amazing; for just a couple of dollars, you can buy a handful of tiny little pharmaceutical factories, and inside each one, they have their own blueprints for how to build themselves and when to erect the solar panels (which are the leaves, of course).

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About Kevin Trudeau See book keywords and concepts

Now upon leaving the government, Tom Ridge has been given a lucrative job on the board of directors of home depot! It sounds like a payoff to me! President Bush bypasses Congress and during its recess fills posts at the Federal Trade Commission. This is an outrage and shows how the administration puts its puppets into various government agencies and uses these agencies like Hitler used the Gestapo and Stalin used the KGB. The Associated Press reports that members of the House of Representatives are invited to, and accept, travel overseas that is in fact improper.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

In Chicago, Carlos Colon, a home depot clerk, had surgery at Our Lady of Resurrection Medical Center to remove what he thought was a cyst in his neck. A typical insurer would have paid $6,900; Medicare, $6,100. Colon was charged $74,396 for a one-week stay at the hospital, a 978 percent premium over the price the hospital would have billed for an insured patient. When Colon, who was supporting a family on less than $2,000 a month, could not pay a bill that was more than three times his annual earnings, the Catholic hospital sued and garnished his wages.

Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life Mark Hyman, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

And home test kits and test strips are available at stores such as home depot for some heavy metals. For more information on toxins in the home, go to www.epa.gov. Minimize Radiation Exposure Radiation can have significant harmful health effects, particularly as a cause of cancer. The stronger the radiation, the higher the risk. Radiation exposure comes from a variety of sources of varying strengths: Radon gas Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that can seep into homes through cracks in the foundation and become trapped due to tight insulation.

Health in the 21st Century: Will Doctors Survive? Francisco, M.D. Contreras See book keywords and concepts

Upon arriving in central Africa you will experience a major setback. No home depot! Not all the materials you need are available and those you can find are not of the same quality as those manufactured in your country. This doesn't mean you can't build a house. However, it does mean that your replacement house, in spite of the fact that the same blueprint was used, will not compare to the original because of the limited supplies and the inferior quality of the materials used. The same is true of our bodies.

Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System J.D. Kleinke See book keywords and concepts

A long list of great American businesses like Federal Express, Sun Microsystems, home depot, EDS, Merck, Coca-Cola, Disney, Wal-Mart, Playboy Enterprises, and Patagonia all share one trait: they are single-minded in their ambitions, competencies, and values. By contrast, those like GM, RJR Nabisco, and AT&T, which diversify beyond what they really know and do, always eventually divest. This simple fact of business life explains why the only MCOs that have really succeeded over time are those that reflect exactly the same qualities of a Federal Express or Patagonia.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

In order to increase its funding and corporate clout, BSR has actively recruited major corporations as members, including FedEx, home depot, Viacom, The Gap, AT&T, the Clorox Company, Kidder Peabody &Co., Reebok, Starbucks Coffee Co., Polaroid Corporation, Honeywell, Time-Warner, Taco Bell—and Monsanto.25 According to Craig Cox, former editor of Business Ethics magazine, Monsanto claims to have cut its toxic air emissions substantially, and is attempting to adopt other socially responsible business practices advocated by BSR.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Furthermore, to ensure the integrity of such claims, many leading retailers, including home depot, are now requiring that such claims be scientifically screened by certification groups such as Green Seal or Scientific Certification Systems. Meanwhile the largest organic farmer in the United * Reprinted with permission from The Safe Macmillan, USA, 1995. Shoppers Bible, S.S. Epstein and D. Steinman, Shopper Beware: Cancer Risks from Consumer Products This Appendix is based on extracts from The Safe Shopper's Bible, co-authored with David Steinman, and with a foreword by Ralph Nader.

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