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…
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…
Just in time for Earth Day, a report from the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that exposure to smog and ozone definitely lead to premature death, putting weight behind the case for lowering air pollution. In wackadoo Earth Day/Equal Pay Day nonsense (a two-fer!): Being a feminist hurts the environment because equal pay means…
Here we are again at Earth Day (officially April 22). And I can’t help thinking — What a difference Al Gore has made. That little Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and a little thing called a Nobel prize add a surprising amount of clout. I seem to recall that sometime in the middle of the…
One of my favorite local eco-activists, Tara Pike was featured on the TLC program What Not to Wear tonight! I loved that the Rebel Recycling program got some national TV time (as well as spotlighting that there are people in Las Vegas who are not completely obsessed with gross consumerism and a throw-away culture)! Tara…
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
It should come as no surprise to regular Siren readers that I’m a CFL convert. I am an unapologetic environmentalist and like spreading the word on simple tips and ways to live a more eco-friendly life (check out the Eco Stuff section) while still feeling comfortable and not appearing to be a raging hippie (sorry…
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…
The weather may be hampering voter turn-out in Ohio, but things are just lovely here in Vegas. Suckers! Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada is hoping to continue the momentum of the nascent activist group formed last month. The monthly meetings are the first Wednesday of each month (hey – that’s tomorrow) from 6 to 7:30…
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……
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