Remember that classic sci-fi climax line, screamed by a thrashing Charlton Heston being hauled off to an insane asylum? In 1973, the year that movie came out, there was a cultural and political focus on the realization that the human population was exploding exponentially. That same year, the Battle for the Planet of the...
Most of us believe that if a product is for sale in this country, then it must be safe. Well, safe enough. If something isn’t safe, then it will have a warning label on it. We use, or eat, or handle, at our own risk, knowing the risks because the companies tell us the...
Gotta love a little alliteration! The new generation of insecticides, developed in the 1980’s, are called Neonicotinoids and are super toxic to insects, worms, birds and fish. These are a class of pesticide, commercialized by Bayer chemical, that are based on the naturally occurring plant defense compound found in tobacco plants, nicotine. Yes, the...
I want to be part of the neem team. I want to believe in the neem dream. Is it too good to be true? As more and more awareness slowly seeps into American homeowners’ ideas of a lawn that doesn’t kill their pets and neighborhood birds or sicken their children, Americans head to their...
We are internal combustion engines. We take in carbon-based fuels and our body metabolism burns the fuel using oxygen that we breathe in, powering our body heat, movement and all our body processes. The waste we produce is mostly carbon dioxide (CO2) and water and a few other waste chemicals that show up in...
