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ANDREA, the award-winning `living air purifier’ that naturally purifies the air by enhancing the metabolic properties of plants, will become available for purchase by the public on October 8th. Invented by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur with Harvard professor David Edwards, ANDREA was named Invention of the Year by Popular Science magazine following an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The commercial launch of ANDREA marks a major leap forward in plant-based air purification design. Since the late 1980s scientists have sought to improve the efficiency of living plants to naturally clean the air of harmful pollutants. ANDREA advances on these efforts with world-class design, elegant simplicity, and improved filtration at affordable cost. It accelerates toxic gases through the active infrastructure system of a plant to continuously clean and oxygenate the air.
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Locally produced organic foods offer numerous benefits for your health and for the health of the animals, the soil, and the planet.
At Organic Valley, they pride themselves in producing organic foods that satisfy the primary health concerns of consumers: good nutrition and protection from exposure to toxins and diseases. Their organically farmed foods are particularly well-suited to the unique nutritional needs and sensitivities of infants, children, and pregnant women.
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Baby skin is so delicate it deserves the purest and best. For your green baby Essential Care offers excellent organic nappy cream in the form of our multi-purpose organic balm ‘Soothing Salve’ and other 100% pure baby care including organic massage oil, natural baby shampoo, natural calming roomy spray and organic baby repair lotion.
Essential Care has offered one of the widest and most sophisticated ranges of certified organic skin and haircare products on the market. All the ingredients they use, except for the emulsifier beeswax, are plant-derived. All Essential Care products are handmade in small batches to ensure maximum freshness. Their products are tested on a panel of willing human volunteers and NEVER on animals. Essential Care offer one of largest bodycare ranges certified to Soil Association organic standards.
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Honest Tea’s new line of organic, low-sugar, fruit-flavored thirst quenchers offers a great-tasting alternative to sugar-laden beverages. Each pouch contains less than half the sugar of most other pouch drinks.
Honest Kids Fruit-Flavored Thirst Quenchers for Kids:
- Appley Ever After
- Goodness Grapeness
- Berry Berry Good Lemonade
- Tropical Tango Punch
- Super Fruit Punch
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Acid rain eating away at forests, chemicals from far away collecting in Arctic animals, changes in the chemistry of seawater, a mysterious virus from overseas – they’re distress calls from a planet where pollution is an increasingly global problem.
Picture yourself in a large, locked room. Now imagine that someone at the other end is setting off smoke bombs. At first, you might barely see or smell the smoke. Sooner or later, though, it will make its way toward you. Since the room is locked, you have no way to escape.
That’s basically the situation we’re all in when it comes to polluting our planet. Earth is large, yes, but it’s not infinite. Moreover, it’s a closed system. Whatever we pump into our air or water stays with us. More and more often, that’s causing global problems. Pollution from one place can make trouble hundreds or even thousands of miles away. This is called transboundary pollution.
It’s tempting, when reading about an environmental issue in some distant state or foreign land, to think, “Well, that’s not my problem.” In an increasingly globalized world, however, that thought rings less and less true. It’s growing ever clearer that problems in one place can affect distant environments and people. Here are just a few examples of what’s happening.
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One of humankind’s worst ideas has also been one of its most persistent: the notion of deliberately using germs as weapons. Today, experts worry that terrorists may adopt this grim tactic, so they work to protect the public.
No one knows who were the first bioterrorists. That dubious honor may belong to Assyrian warriors in the sixth century B.C. They used a deadly fungus to poison the wells of their enemies. Germ warfare remained alive and well in the year 1346, when the Tatars attacked the Crimean city of Caffa on the Black Sea. They had suffered an outbreak of plague and decided to share it with their foes. To do so, they hurled the infected bodies of the dead over the city walls. Fleeing residents carried the disease to Italy, sparking Europe’s second major epidemic of the Black Death.
Beginning in 1492, the Europeans who came to America unknowingly brought with them diseases that wiped out huge numbers of natives. A few documented instances of purposeful bioterrorism occurred during the French and Indian War (1754-1767), when Britain and France vied for control of North America. British forces distributed smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans who had sided with the French.
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