Happy Friday: Earth Day edition

Hope you had a good Earth Day! (Sound off about your experience in the Grist poll.) For me it’s been great to see so many places embracing the green spirit! I noticed that more people were into my reusable shopping bags this week than normal. In fact, usually I get the this-is-such-a-hassle face from the…

Nalgene goes BPA free!

Hurray for progress! After the news broke that most plastic bottles (and tin cans lined with plastic) contain a chemical called Bisphenol-A, a substance known to mimic estrogen in the body and cause hormone disturbances, I was very upset. After all, how can you kick your bottled water addiction (bad for the environment and your…

Return to sender

So I wanted to share the responses I’ve gotten so far to the e-mails I sent back as part of The Sin City Siren’s campaign to get Republic Services and retailers to recycle used CFLs (compact fluorescent lightbulbs). Below are the responses so far … — E

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Remember the whole birth control costs rising 900% thing? Remember how all it would take is an easy vote in Congress to fix it (at no cost to taxpayers, since it would just reestablish an existing program)? Well, the electeds have done jack about it and now there are women who are really struggling to get access to affordable birth…

Simple But Profound

I’m reading Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier, science writer for the NY Times. In short, it’s fabulous. This passage from the chapter “One Perfect Solar Cell,” about eggs, struck me. She’s discussing the millions of eggs that don’t make it to even menstruation, that perish in apoptosis for whatever reason: “For our purposes……