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Zeus, you are quite right to point out that there are multiple causes of cancer, asthma and the other ailments that have risen in frequency over the last 50 years. Household chemicals and synthetic cleaning products are just one contributor to our increasingly toxic lifestyles (but they can easily be remedied with natural alternatives as the other ... Read Morecomments here demonstrate!). Thank you for calling our attention to a few other possible factors, which deserve equal attention and more research.

p.s. Here is a video about one of my favorite organizations working to fight other kinds of air pollution and inner-city asthma: http://is.gd/4ZU4I

Here is a presentation given at a hazardous waste conference in Seattle last June, with some good information and a scientific basis (hope it works!):
http://www.productstewardship.us/associations/6596/files/A.%20Steinemann.HIdden%20and%20Hazardous%20Chemicals%202.pdf
she was pretty much anti-everything-but-vinegar-and-baking-soda. not the stance I take, for sure--but the accumulative effects of multiple cleaning products and air "fresheners" etc. is worrisome.

A Lojong slogan: "Don't ponder others."
(Don't ponder others' weak points, becoming arrogant about your own accomplishments.)
From The Compassion Box, Pema Chodron)

I love Lojong! I flip through one a day at home.

Give me a minute to ponder this...

amazing...beautiful...inspiring

:) Go VEG!!!!

Us Canadian's wish you could have posted this last month!! lol!!

wish I could get to boulder for this...

He in the Fort at CSU 11/19

He in the Fort at CSU 11/19

Lisa, you should write something up for us on a "mindful diet!" Would be great service. Personally, as someone who's been discursive about food my whole life, I eat quality food but too much or too little and found Oprah's Key Steps really helpful and pragmatic.

we are all made from stardust

Hannah, right on! I fully support what you are saying. I actually did not mean what I said about not caring about fur or animal rights, etc. I was just doing my standard guy thing. I was focused entirely on the photo. Yes, PETA and others know how to get my attention with their ads. But that is fine with me. Keep it coming! But, I did not ... Read Moremean to belittle in any way the causes represented or to offend anyone here. Naked women are as much a part of nature as the furry animals! Anyway, Olgan, we are indeed stardust. We are golden. And we have GOT to get ourselves back to the garden!