Dr Billy Health

Fluorescent Lighting Not the Answer
One reason is because these types of light sources contain small but significant amounts of mercury. If the glass tube is broken, then the mercury can contaminate the environment, that’s not a ‘clean’, ‘green’ or ‘healthy’ situation considering that mercury is highly toxic.

In fluorescent tubes, mercury is used in vapor or […]

Filed under: Consider This, For your health, Green News on March 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Meatless Michigan
Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm has declared March 20 as Meat Out Day for the state.
Granholm’s proclamation, issued at the urging of vegetarian activists, cited the benefits of a plant-based diet and the increasing availability of alternatives to meat and dairy products for vegans and vegetarians.
She cited the benefits of a plant-based diet; […]

Filed under: The VEG Files, Green News on March 21st, 2010 | No Comments »

Seeding the Homeland with Mutants
Most world governments will have nothing to do with GMO food crops.
Most U.S. citizens don’t want to eat the stuff.
Yet, without the people’s consent or due process, poison transgenic plants have been scattered over ‘public’ lands:
ONE-THIRD OF U.S. WILDLIFE REFUGES USE GM CROPS IN SOUTHEAST
Genetically Modified Seeds Okayed by Obama […]

Filed under: Uncategorized, Alerts!, Green News on June 28th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Pro-Pesticide Group Criticizes First Lady’s Organic Garden
And First Lady Michelle Obama is coming under criticism from a pro-pesticide industry group for deciding to plant an organic garden at the White House. The Mid America CropLife Association recently wrote to the First Lady to urge her to consider using pesticides, or what they call “crop protection […]

Filed under: Green News on April 15th, 2009 | No Comments »

Amy Goodman Among 4 Recipients of 2008 Right Livelihood Award, Known as the “Alternative Nobel”
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman has become the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, established to honor those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.” The annual prize, also known as the Alternative […]

Filed under: Uncategorized, Other, Green News on October 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »

Ancient Trees Traded for Sweat Socks
9-9-08
Tree-Sit Standoff in Berkeley Intensifies
Berkeley, California
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the standoff between UC Berkeley and four tree-sitters intensified Monday as work crews prepared to remove the protesters from a stripped-down redwood. Protesters have been living in trees in the grove since late 2006 in an effort to prevent forty-two […]

Filed under: Green News on September 17th, 2008 | No Comments »