Mind Your Mercury
Where can you find the most toxic non-radioactive element on Earth? In your sushi. Here’s why: Coal-powered electricity plants release mercury into our rivers and oceans where fish live; then we eat the fish. During the two-to-three month period that mercury stays in our bodies it can affect sensory perception, memory and motor skills. High […]
Eat Less American
Meat might be fine in moderation, but the all-American diet of meat once—or even three times—a day is probably not the best thing for anyone. A full 37% of human-induced methane emissions come from livestock! And unfortunately, even organic, free-range can’t protect you from some problematic industrial chemicals found in meat, which accumulate in animal […]
Try Meatless Monday
Raising animals for food requires massive amounts of land, food, energy, and water, and the byproducts of animal agriculture pollute our air and waterways. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that roughly 80 percent of ammonia emissions in the U.S. come from animal waste and that the agricultural runoff caused by the three trillion pounds of […]
