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A purpose built, self-sufficient, luxury wellness centre is set to open in spectacular surroundings near Queenstown, New Zealand. Aro Ha offers innovative all-inclusive Wellness Adventure programs. The blueprint has been refined over the last 10 years and is based on vinyasa Yoga, sub-alpine hiking, functional strength training, meditation, therapeutic massage ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Health, Lifestyle & Behavior, Tourism
Global abatement of greenhouse gas emissions could save in the year 1.4 and 3 million premature deaths in 2100, reports a study published this week in Nature Climate Change. These findings stress the value of improved air quality, which has previously been underestimated in studies of how reductions in ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Health (1 comment)
Call it “one step up and two steps back,” or call it cowardice, the move to abandoned proposed chemical rules by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, looks and sounds like intimidation. But in the wake of the EPA’s ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Corporate Social Responsibility, Health, Industry & Business (1 comment)
People who were deprived of one night’s sleep purchased more calories and grams of food in a mock supermarket on the following day in a new study published in the journal Obesity , the official journal of The Obesity Society. Sleep deprivation also led to increased blood levels of ghrelin ... keep reading
Written by Celsias last month, about Food, Health, Lifestyle & Behavior
Nearly 100 shampoos and personal care products made by Colgate Palmolive, Colomer, Paul Mitchell and numerous other manufacturers allegedly contain a cancer-causing chemical, according to test results released by the Center for Environmental Health. The Oakland, Calif.-based group filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Walgreens , Lake Consumer Products, Vogue International ... keep reading
Written by Environmental Leader last month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Health, Law
Agence France-Presse reports that TEPCO's handling of radioactive water at Fukushima has been like "whack-a-mole", according to a minister who visited the plant, and he is pledging Japan's government would step up its involvement at the site. 300 tonnes of highly radioactive toxic liquid has leaked from one ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry & Business
The following is an extract from an article in the Nation, by Madeleine Ostrander which looks at whether fracking was a necessary evil . She debunks four big myths - as below . Fracking may not decrease our reliance on coal globally. It just sends the coal somewhere else. Guardian editor and energy ... keep reading
Written by The Nation/Madeleine Ostrander in August, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Health, Industry & Business, Water (1 comment)
The biological assumptions that calorie calculations are presently based on are far too simplistic and may not accurately reflect calorie content of food items, Rob Dunn writes in a feature article that is part of part of this month’s Scientific American’s special issue on food. Almost every packaged ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Children and Families, Food, Health
Almost 80 percent of air pollution involving soot that spreads from China over large areas of East Asia — impacting human health and fostering global warming — comes from city traffic and other forms of fossil-fuel combustion, such as home cooking with coal briquettes. That’s the conclusion of a study in ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Children and Families, Health, Politics & Government
Regulations on the approved level of lead exposure for workers in the U.S. have not been updated since 1978 and permit blood lead concentrations that are four to 12 times higher than the concentrations that have been linked to elevated blood pressure, among other problems. An investigative column in ... keep reading
Written by Celsias in August, about Children and Families, Health, waste
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A Resene project in New Zealand
Painting the town greener Resene is painting the town greener with the extension of the Resene PaintWise paint and paint ... more »