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We all know in the back of our head that every time we use our cell phones we are getting zapped by some kind of radiation that is probably not good for us. Some studies suggest that cell phone usage increase your risk of cancer yet that does not seem to be stopping any of us from carrying around and talking on our beloved cell phones.  One of my favorite organizations, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has come up with a great user friendly list for determining which cell phones have the lowest radiation output. Below are the ten best phones, but since my iPhone wasn't on the list I had to dig deeper.  If you click here you can see the full panel of results.  Much to my surprise, iPhone was one of the better PDA/Smartphone devices as far as radiation is concerned... well, so I am telling myself.  It actually wasn't that great but it wasn't at the bottom of the list either.

 By Linda ShiueDoes this make any sense?New York City's Education Department made headlines last October when it voted to ban bake sales for school fundraisers, citing nutritional concerns with the sugar and fat content of most baked goods.  At that...

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Imagine tons of unsold, perfectly good clothes being destroyed and dumped in the trash!  Unbelievably that is what Wal-Mart and H&M have been doing instead of giving them to needy people.  Read more here from the article in Shine:"This unsettling...

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How quickly some people forget:  No Farms, No Food.  Seriously though.. not so much love for this guy.. although as Treehugger points out, there are two sides to every story, but get this..."From switching to local grains to embracing backyard slaughter, locavores can...

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How horrifying is this? I took this photo at the Green Festival in San Francisco this weekend. It is a great visual of how many plastic bags a typical consumer uses in just one year!  No wonder the Great Pacific...

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Girls listen up! It is possible to be too tan and too thin!  This is not a good look!!! What do you think?...

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This has got to be a joke, but it seems so real.  I was searching Google for a list of places to buy succulents (you know the desert like plants that cost about $3 each at the nursery) and I...

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I am always blown away when I read about all of the chemicals I have been dumping into my body unknowingly through the years.Image via Wikipedia  This list of the 'Dirty Dozen' from National Geographic's Green Guide could give a girl...

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I love ShopBop as much as the next slave to fashion, but I don't love the fact that these girls actually look like slaves! And I am not talking about the chains around that one girl's neck or the fact...

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I should have known!  Bisphenol A is known to cause an increase in estrogen.  Normally when women have an increase in estrogen it is around their periods and hence PMS (mean women), but if that increase happens at the wrong...

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