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Clean-living and green-living advice to help you minimize your exposure to toxic compounds while respecting and preserving the health of the environment.

NO MORE DIRTY LOOKS: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetic

by Siobhan O’Connor and Alexandra Spunt

Often we don’t think about what’s in the personal-care products we use on a daily basis. Siobhan O’Connor, editor of Prevention magazine, and freelance journalist, Alexandra Spunt have created a practical and fun guide to choosing healthier options. The book includes a list of the 100 best clean makeup, hair and skin care products as well as information on making simple DIY concoctions.

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Twitter: @nodirtylooks

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry

by Stacy Malkan

The book by Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, chronicles the campaign’s beginning and documents its efforts to pressure the United States cosmetics industry to use safer ingredients. It also provides readers with resources and tools they can use to educate themselves on the potentially hazardous chemicals typically present in personal-care products.

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Twitter: @safecosmetics

The Story of Stuff Project

In 2007, Annie Leonard set out to educate consumers about the impact of their purchasing decisions with a 20 minute cartoon. Today, The Story of Stuff has been viewed over 15 million times (and counting!) making it one of the most watched environmental-themed movies of all time. In 2008, Leonard started The Story of Stuff non-profit in response to viewer response to get involved. The non-profit continues to educate by making short films exploring humans relationships with “stuff.”

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Twitter: @storyofstuff

8 Hidden Toxins: What’s Lurking in Your Cleaning Products?

by Jessie Sholl
This great article from Experience Life explains why it’s dangerous to assume that popular household cleaners are safe. Learn about the eight scariest substances hiding under your kitchen sink, and how to replace them with safer, more natural options that really work.
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

Founded in 2002, this coalition of non-profits works to raise awareness about the dangers of toxic ingredients in personal-care products and works to protect the health of consumers and workers that make the products by driving policy changes that support safer formulations.

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Twitter: @safecosmetics

Tapped

Is access to clean water a basic human right or a commodity? The award-winning documentary, Tapped, from the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car?, reviews the health and environmental impacts of bottled water as well as the issue of privatization. It provides an excellent behind-the-scenes look at the unregulated world of the bottled water industry.

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Twitter: @Tappedthemovie

Who Killed the Electric Car?

The number of electric cars on the road today keeps growing. But, did you know that they first started appearing in 1996? Who Killed the Electric Car? explores the initial creation and subsequent dismantling of the the battery-powered, electric vehicle by General Motors in the mid-1990s. The film features interviews with former electric vehicle owners, political figures and engineers and explores the roles that lobbyists, government policies, car corporations and oil companies may have played in the eventual dismantling of the General Motors EV-1 program.

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Small Planet Institute

Founded in 2001 by Frances Moore Lappé, author of 18 books including Diet for a Small Planet, and Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet, the Small Planet Institute serves to further a transition to “Living Democracy,” a type of democracy in which power is seen as a dynamic, enabling relationship, not a one-way force. Living Democracy recognizes the link between food democracy, environmental sustainability and social justice and practices values of inclusion, fairness and mutual accountability. The Small Planet Institute creates books, radio and television programs, videos, and public presentations that showcase positive local solutions to global issues.

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Twitter: @fmlappe

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Navdanya

This participatory research initiative was started by world-renowned physicist, feminist, author and environmentalist, Vandana Shiva, PhD. “Navdanya” means “nine seeds,” which represent India’s collective source of food security. Navdanya’s mission is to protect and conserve plant biodiversity, create awareness of the dangers of genetic engineering, protect indigenous knowledge and culture and support local farmers. The program has its own seed bank and organic farm in northern India and has conserved more than 5,000 crop varieties.

www.navdanya.org

Twitter: @drvandanashiva

Crude

This provocative, and award-winning, David-vs-Goliath documentary explores the ongoing lawsuit filed by 30,000 indigenous Ecuadorans against Chevron/Texaco for their oil exploration and exploitation efforts in the Amazon. Berlinger interviews the plaintiffs, their attorneys as well as Chevron employees and attorneys. The film takes you from contamination sites to the court rooms in an attempt to determine if that’s oil in the soil and water of the fragile Amazon eco-system and if it is who’s responsible for cleaning it up.

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Twitter: @crudethemovie

“What’s On My Food?” iPhone App

Did you know that pesticide residues can remain on your food even after washing? This handy-dandy app, developed in conjunction with the Pesticide Action Network, helps you take control of your food. Use it to search what pesticides are on your favorite foodstuffs.

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Flow

Some experts believe that the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st century is the growing global water crisis. This award-winning documentary examines the crisis from local and global perspectives. It features interviews with top scientists and activists as well as with the people and organizations working toward finding solutions to protecting the resource that sustains all beings.

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Vandana Shiva, PhD

Physicist Dr. Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned environmental and human rights activist. She is founder of Navdanya, a network of Indian seed keepers and organic producers. She is author of multiple books including Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace, Stolen Harvest: the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. www.navdanya.org Twitter: @drvandanashiva

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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

by Susan Freinkel

Ever wondered how plastic became the cornerstone of modern society? Author Susan Freinkel uses eight everyday objects to explain the history of plastic, and offers suggestions for ways we can break our toxic relationship with plastic.

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“Beyond BPA: Could ‘BPA-Free’ Products Be Just as Unsafe?”

by Elizabeth Grossman

Are alternative materials safer than products that legislators want to ban? This well-written article by Elizabeth Grossman in The Atlantic summarizes the potential risks posed by BPA, the challenges of eliminating it and the lack of research on the safety of new BPA-free plastics.

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