Sunday, December 15, 2013

Tiny scrubber beads in cosmetics are coming back up the food chain to us!

So read the ingredients on the cosmetics and health products you buy. If it uses plastic beads, don't buy it. There are plenty of alternatives out there as companies such as Burt's Bees, Tom's, St. Ives, Weleda and others well know and use. Support the companies who are doing the responsible thing! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/us/scientists-turn-their-gaze-toward-tiny-threats-to-great-lakes.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131215

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Get rid of your lawn and grow native plants and trees. Save the monarchs and the bees!

Please read this New York Times article on the risk of extinction of Monarch butterflies, bees and other insects. This should serve as the canary in the coal mine and an awakening for all of us. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?smid=pl-share

Monday, April 8, 2013

ASARCO towers coming down this weekend.

After years of controversy, the towers of Asarco will be demolished this weekend. Much earlier in this blog I had posted about the Asarco controversy. This isn't really the end. Although the towers re coming down, no one seems to quite know what to do about prime real estate that is saturated with heavy metals and is unarguably an integral part of the history of El Paso and the University of Texas at El Paso.