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Feature Article #1

The Case for Beans

by Cindy Geyer, MD
A recent article in the New York Times by Mark Bittman (Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler, January 27, 2008) likened meat to oil in terms of both the popularity it enjoys as a government subsidy, and as a product for which demand increases as nations become wealthier.  Meat production has increased from 71 million […]

CJGeyer | March 6th, 2008 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

Views from Geneva – US Consumption of Bottled Water

by Siobhan McNally, MD, MPH
As part of a Preventive Medicine Fellowship with University of Massachusetts Medical School, I spent four weeks in Geneva, Switzerland working at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Children’s Environmental Health Department.
English is the main language at WHO Headquarters; this is a good thing as my high school French was not going […]

S McNally | January 11th, 2008 | Continued

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From greenhouse gases to pesticide use to lead in toys, we are bombarded with the burgeoning awareness that all is not well with the environmental health of our planet, country, homes. With so much information making it into the press, it is easy to get overwhelmed.

Bring It Home, A Berkshire-based initiative, hopes to change this […]

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The Pied Piper of Chickens

by Ruth Dinerman
What does it mean to be in the middle of the climate crisis, which is threatening life on the earth—while I live each day as though nothing has changed? I live as I have always done even as the question that future generations will ask hangs in the air—Why didn’t you do more […]

6Mar2008 | RDinerman | 1 comment | Continued
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No-Brainer Food

by Ann Gesner
One of the observations that most amazed me when I became a parent was watching the way in which my babies ate. Without even knowing what food was yet, they knew when they needed to eat, and when it was time to stop. They knew that food was not only necessary – it […]

6Mar2008 | Ann Gesner | 0 comments | Continued
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Plastic Redux

by Heidi McInerney
Dr. McNally’s article in last month’s Bring It Home newsletter brought home to me that I needed to do something about my family’s plastic consumption. I’d been using cloth bags at the supermarket and glass containers for leftovers, so I was feeling pretty good about myself. But, like most Portlanders (Portland, MAINE that […]

6Mar2008 | Heidi | 0 comments | Continued
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The world’s rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

By Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, and Daniel Howden
Tuesday, 5 February 2008

A “plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.
The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump – […]

28Feb2008 | Heidi | 0 comments | Continued
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Bring It Home Gathering!

Bring It Home held its first Berkshire gathering of women on February 6, 2008 at Nina Moulin’s house. For those of you who don’t know, Bring It Home gatherings are like book clubs - but without the book! A topic surrounding environmental health or the environment is chosen and attendees bring questions, ideas, anything they […]

7Feb2008 | Terrachord | 0 comments | Continued
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Coming Back to our Senses

by Mary Campbell Case
Winter’s blast of arctic air activates my environmental consciousness like nothing else. As the amount I pay to the gas and electric companies balloon, my worries about our dependence on fossil fuels and their impact on this fragile earth overwhelm my hope and resolve. Everywhere the news seems bad…. melting ice caps, […]

11Jan2008 | Mary Campbell Case | 0 comments | Continued
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Violins, Beauty and Bring It Home

by Ann Gesner
Last April, The Washington Post printed a story about an experiment they undertook in a Washington subway station. A young man walked in, opened his violin case, threw in a couple of dollars seed money, and began to play. He played while people hustled by to catch their trains, get to work and […]

11Jan2008 | Ann Gesner | 0 comments | Continued
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New Year’s Resolution: Sign Up for the BIH Newsletter!

Beginning January 2008, the Bring It Home community will have its very own newsletter!
Each month we’ll send you tips and information on how you can make your home and community more environmentally healthy.  Our articles will include everything from the unique vulnerability of our children to environmental hazards to ways we can re-examine our lives […]

12Dec2007 | Heidi | 0 comments | Continued
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