Health Action Magazine - Environmental Issues
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Millions Spent-Not a Joule SavedLighting represents a mere fraction of overall Canadian energy consumption and has a limited potential for energy savings, yet millions of dollars are being spent to promote...
Health Action, Winter 2009/2010 - 2K
The Dark Side of Compact Fluorescent LightsStarting in 2012, regular incandescent bulbs, the ones invented by Thomas Edison over 100 years ago, will be banned in Canada.
Contrary to popular belief, switching from...
Health Action, Winter 2009/2010 - 7K
Colwood: First Canadian City to Recognize EMSThe City of Colwood on Vancouver Island is the first Canadian city to officially recognize electromagnetic sensitivity (EMS) by declaring August "EMS Month."
EMS is a...
Health Action, Winter 2009/2010 - 1K
SOS: Save Our SeedsIn days gone by, the seeds that grow our food were in the hands of farmers and public-sector plant breeders. Today, however, an increasing amount of seeds-the first link in...
Health Action, Winter 2009/2010 - 1K
Eco Car WashingTaking your car to the car wash is a more environmentally friendly choice than washing it at home in the driveway.
A car wash has better water efficiency and proper toxin...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K
GE Failure to Yield"After years of promotions and promises from the biotechnology industry that its genetically engineered crops will produce higher yields the promise has proven to be empty,"...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K
Newborns Affected by EnvironmentAn increasing number of baby boys are being born with genital malformations, such as undescended testes, according to a study in the journal Epidemiology (July...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K
Tar Sand Stats• Canada is considered the second nation in world oil reserves based on our supply of tar sands.
• Tar sands oil production is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K
Bateman Inspires Kids to Get to Know the EnvironmentPassion for health and natural living
can come from spending time
outside and gaining an understanding
of nature and animals. This is
the main concept of Robert...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 4K
How to Tell GM Foods by LabelsAn orange is an orange is an orange, right? Not necessarily, according to grocery store PLU (price lookup) codes. These four or five digit numbers, which are assigned to...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 1K
GM Candyland: Modified sugar beets in CanadaAfter genetically modified (GM) sugar beets are first harvested this fall in Alberta, Rogers Sugar/ Lantic will be selling Canadians GM sugar. Lantic Inc. is the only company...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 4K
Over recent months, governments have increasingly acknowledged EMF-related health concerns and have taken stands to protect health. Three US Governors declared May 2009...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 2K
Canada Is At the Tipping Point of Climate ChangeHANS - Health Action Network Society recently joined 70+ organizations and became part of the KYOTO*plus movement - Canada's campaign for climate action.
In the past...
HANS e-News - September 15, 2009 - 1K
Canada Is At the Tipping Point of Climate ChangeHANS - Health Action Network Society recently joined 70+ organizations and became part of the KYOTO*plus movement - Canada's campaign for climate action.
In the past...
HANS e-News - September 15, 2009 - 1K
Widespread Call to Stop GM Alfalfa in CanadaOn April 28, 2009, 80 groups including farmer associations and food businesses from across Canada joined the growing call to stop the introduction and field-testing of...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 4K
BC Fluoride UpdateBritish Columbia is leading the way as the province with the least percentage of its population receiving fluoridated water, according to British Columbia's Ministry of...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 1K
Does Fluoride Put Us At Risk?A large body of scientific research shows that water fluoridation is, at best, useless in relation to dental health. At worst, research suggests that our teeth, brain and...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 2K
BC Trees DyingBritish Columbia's trees are dying-some of which are 1,000-year-old ancient rainforest giants measuring more than 1.5 metres wide. The rate of tree death in BC, and the...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 1K
Canadians Concerned About WaterThe majority of Canadians (53 percent) rank fresh water as the country's most important natural resource; ahead of forests (20 percent), agriculture/farmland (14 percent),...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 1K
BYOB: Bring Your Own BagCanadians take home an estimated 55 million single-use plastic bags per week. That's nearly 3 billion bags a year!
In April 2007 Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, became the first...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 2K
Reef-friendly SunscreensBy using sunscreen, you may be doing your skin a favour, but not marine wildlife.
Four ingredients that routinely appear in chemical sunscreens activate a virus harmful to...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 1K
Bee PowerWinnie the Pooh was onto something. He loved honey but was too busy eating it (and getting into mischief) to recognize the miraculous masters of honey making-bees.
Bees...
Health Action, Summer 2009 - 2K
Bateman Inspires Kids to Get to Know the EnvironmentPassion for health and natural living can come from spending time outside and gaining an understanding of nature and animals. This is the main concept of Robert Bateman's...
Health Action, Fall 2009 - 3K
Public Overwhelmingly Rejects Genetically Engineered TreesHinesburg, VT (U.S.)--Nearly 17,500 public comments were sent to the United States Department of Agriculture opposing their recommendation for approval of an ArborGen [1]...
From Media Release, July 16, 2009 - 4K
Human Activity and the Environment: Food in Canada, 2009Spending on food and non-alcoholic beverages in 2003 resulted in almost 46,000 kilotonnes of greenhouse gases, according to the first comprehensive national estimate of...
HANS e-News - June 15, 2009 - 2K