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- inactive, on 01/11/2008, -0/+3I agree with the article, we do need to cut down on pollution and try to use products that are not harmful. By using no products known to cause cancer the mill was doing more positives than just a cleaner product and better work environment.
On of the most sustainable and renewable resources currently banned by the DC insanity is hemp. It is very versatile and cheap to grow because it makes its own insecticide and uses nutrients in the soil that other crops don't causing better rotation growth and sustaiable farmland.
Hempseed oil was used as fuel and it takes far less to refine hempseed oil into a fuel than crude.The diesel engine was designed originally to run on vegetable oil.Henry Ford built an entire car using the hemp plant.
I am all for a cleaner environment and less waste, I think it is imperative we move in that direction.
On this we the people need to lead because DC seems leaderless to me. - chemrat, on 01/20/2008, -0/+1It isn't too comforting, is it. But, some of the ways that this harmfulness is measured are silly. Table salt is considered harmful by some guidelines. Of course, it can be, but salt (or the sodium ion and chloride ion that form salt) is also essential for life. This is the case with all of the elements, bulk elements and trace elements, that are required for life. Above or below certain levels they are bad for us, but at the right levels, they are essential. So, these scary revelations sometimes need to be taken with a grain of ... That doesn't mean that efforts to make safer substances are unimportant- we need them desperately in many cases.
- ethicalbrand, on 01/13/2008, -0/+0What I think is really scary is that of the 8,000 industrial chemicals used in the production of all our stuff... 7,962 were found to be harmful.
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