Environment

Danish girls develop breasts a year younger that they did 15 years ago. This has been demonstrated by a Danish study that was shown on Swedish TV recently. The researchers suspect this is due to chemicals that act like hormones. Phthalates and parabens are chemicals that are used as softeners in plastics and in common everyday products like shampoo, shower gel, nail polish, perfume, cosmetics, floor covering and laundry detergent.

"Faced with the problem of dwindling productivity, scientists now fly a new banner to replace the moth eaten flag of the Green Revolution. They are boasting the colours of generic revolution. They promise to obtain by genetic modification fifteen tons of wheat or rice per hectare and 200 tons of maize. We are entitled to doubt this promise because soils by loosing their organic matter and biological activity are becoming the most limiting factor of plant production " from the book " Regenerating the Soil "   

The search is on for energy-saving alternatives to the so called EU or CFL light-bulbs. Alternatives that don't harm the health of the producer or the user. Given time safer alternatives will naturally develop. Needless to say there are several alternatives in the pipe-line.

Are you aware that the EU has decided that energy-efficient light-bulbs are to replace "normal" light-bulbs by 2012? The yellow canary suggests that you read the following report from The Sunday Times that claims that hundreds of factory staff are being made ill by mercury used in bulbs destined for the West.

From The Sunday Times
May 3, 2009