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Greenery for all: Small, lush spaces
The health benefits of greenery can fit in any size of living space.
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Growing Great Greenspaces
Many plants can supplement or stand in for turf, for interesting (and sometimes edible!) groundcover.
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Health Canada wants to increase Glyphosate in food
Glyphosate is Canada’s most-used herbicide, so levels in food are increasing, sometimes exceeding regulatory limits. Health Canada proposes to relax those limits. Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) may be more than…
Nimble, healthy choices to prevent 3Cs
Choosing Wisely The 3-C challenge: Minimizing Cancer, Chronic Disease and the Climate Crisis Canada is at a cross-roads. Our climate is changing more rapidly than the global average, and the…
U.S. Federal Agency Shows Glyphosate Causes Cancer
Draft US document showed glyphosate causes cancer. Next, check out final document, where data was falsified to reduce link with cancer.
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Safe Food Matters going to Court over Round-up/Glyphosate
Safe Food Matters Inc. filed an application in federal court yesterday, challenging the re-registration of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide. In 2017 it filed a notice of objection…
Glyphosate Objectors’ Concerns Are Heightened as Health Canada Response Dismisses Key Science and Lacks Transparency
Canadians At Risk, With No Independent Review of Roundup Herbicide Health Canada released responses to eight objections to re-registration of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide). Government responses leave…
Breaking Research: Glyphosate and its herbicide products harm microbiome
Possible roles in child IBD and young adult colorectal cancer? The Global Glyphosate Study today released its first short term animal studies on glyphosate herbicides. Rats were dosed with herbicide…
Phasing out Canada’s number one insecticide
A blow for health and the environment, or a great corporate strategy? Canadian “green” social media is a-buzz about saving the bees, since Health Canada proposed phasing out the largest…