TangibleGreen

06/26/2018

Lead paint can be in any home built prior to 1978, when it was finally banned here in the US. Companies lobbied back at that time to keep the status quo of lead in our paint, knowing the dangers. Shouldn't they be held accountable? Children are particularly vulnerable to the developmental effects of lead poisoning.
If you think your home could have Lead-Based Paint (LBP), TangibleGreen can test your home and/or stabilize the home to help protect you and your family's health.

Two paint makers are backing a California initiative which would undo a pricey court ruling holding them accountable for selling toxic paint

04/30/2018

We have been talking about this for years - and frankly it is great to see that scientists with the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) are willing to attach their agency's name to these findings.

According to this report from the FDA, Glyphosate is toxic to humans. Unfortunately, thanks to its widespread use as a pesticide, it is found in almost every food we have been eating since the 1970's. This is truly a scary realty.

The immediate follow up question should be: what, if anything, is going to be done about it? Will the FDA, Environmental Protection Agency or Congress step up and pass a law banning the use of any and all pesticides with Glyphosate contained in them? Stay tuned... and frankly each and every person reading this post, and this article should do 2 things:

- contact your Congress people and tell them they must do something about this.
- share this with everyone you know, and get them to do the same.

A widely used w**d killer that’s been linked to cancer has turned up in nearly every common food in the US, according to a new report. Scientists with the Food and Drug Administration found glyphos…

03/25/2018

A massive floating island of plastic, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is growing fast and is now three times the size of France.

01/26/2018

Nature Based Designs that Grow Food & Build Soil

01/10/2018

In one of the first analyses of a company-led sustainability program in the food and agriculture space, Stanford researchers found a major grocery chain fostered increased adoption of environmental practices at the farm level.

12/19/2017

Wonderful stories of people giving and sharing with others. We love random acts of kindness!

Happy Holidays everyone!

One Walmart shopper in New Jersey paid off $49,000 in layaway items for strangers, while a police officer in Shawnee, Kansas is handing out cash instead of tickets.

11/22/2017

Thanksgiving is upon us - one of the most underappreciated and yet important holidays of the year. This day stands as the beginning of the home stretch to any year, as well as the beginning of the holiday season. More importantly, Thanksgiving symbolizes a time when we take a break from our hectic lives to give thanks for our family, our friends, and the many gifts that God has provided us throughout the year. [ 130 more words ]

Thanksgiving is upon us – one of the most underappreciated and yet important holidays of the year. This day stands as the beginning of the home stretch to any year, as well as the beginning o…

11/17/2017

The federal Department of Investigation (DOI) released a report on Tuesday alleging the New York City Housing Authority failed to conduct mandatory lead inspections on 55,000 apartments over a 3-year period, and then falsified certifications of those certifications claiming to cover up the fact that they weren't actually done.

This is important because there are at least 1.2 million children who were found to have "elevated blood levels" between 1999-2010 according to a report released by the Public Health Institute's California Environmental Health Tracking Program in April of this year. That number places lead poisoning in the top 10 of most prevalent health risk to children ages 0 to 12 in America.

Our public officials need to be held accountable when they fail to monitor, or even worse cover up the lack of doing these extremely important inspections.

To have lead stabilization or renovation work done at your commercial site or your residence, contact us at http://www.tangiblegreen.net.

The New York City Housing Authority submitted false documentation to the federal government saying it was in compliance with federal laws requiring inspections for lead paint — even though it…

11/14/2017

25 years later - and most of the environmental problems cited by 1,700 scientists in their 1992 "warning to humanity" letter have gotten worse.

There are 2 billion more humans, but almost 30% less of all other animals. The average temperature around the earth continues to grow hotter while de-forestation, ocean dead zones and carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase. Meanwhile, access to fresh water, one of the most important substances to sustain human life, continues to decrease.

Interestingly, the one area that has improved: the hole in the ozone layer has substantially shrunk over this time. Why? Because us humans did take at least one positive action: we stopped using chlorofluorocarbons in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosol cans.

It is amazing what we can do when we all act together. We should now look at the 13 other suggestions that the 15,000 scientists who backed this follow up letter made to lessen our human impact on the planet going forward. Go to http://scientists.forestry.oregonstate.edu/ and the Alliance of World Scientists to learn more about their movement to engage the world and prevent the continued "widespread misery caused by catastrophic damage to the biosphere by human influences."

In 1992, scientists warned humanity about a host of impending ecological disasters. A quarter-century later, most of them have gotten worse.

11/11/2017

The South Florida Management Water District announced this week that excessive rains from Hurricane Irma combined with wetter than normal spring and summer seasons has led directly to higher phosphorus levels than state court limits allow in Everglades National Park.

This announcement raises further concerns about phosphorus levels and pollution in general causing serious problems throughout south Florida's waterways through the rest of this year and possibly well beyond. In addition to the devastating effects on this very important ecosystem, these issues could lead directly to a significant financial hit to Florida's tourism industry, which has taken some significant blows in recent months.

Excessive levels of phosphorus have been directly connected to last year's deadly algae bloom in the Loxahatchee River Basin, in addition to killing thousands of acres of marshlands in the Everglades and across south Florida over recent years. Phosphorus could be to blame for the algae bloom currently being experienced in Florida Bay that is wreaking havoc with the ecosystem there.

Water flowing into Everglades National Park exceeded court-ordered limits for marsh-killing pollution during Florida’s wet summer and spring, a sign of the complexity in fixing the region.

10/30/2017

In yet another sign that human activity is having a significant impact on all aspects of the environment on this earth - the United Nations World Meterological Organization this morning reported in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) are at levels not seen for "millions of years" on our planet.

The Bulletin listed a number of sobering statistics:
- carbon dioxide levels are now at 403.3ppm (parts per million) after reaching the 400ppm level in 2015 - for the first time in 3 to 5 million years.
- human CO2 emissions from sources such as coal, oil, cement and deforestation reached record levels in 2016.
- the rise in CO2 caused by humans is happening 100 times faster than it did "when the world was emerging from the last ice age," a rate of change never seen on earth before.
- the last time CO2 levels were this high ice sheets near both the north (Greenland) and south (Antartica) melted to such a large extent they caused sea levels to rise 10 to 20 meters higher than today.
- concentrations of the other two main greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide, also grew to record concentrations in 2016, although at a slower pace than CO2.

We continue to push our environment away from levels of different elements in which we and other earthly inhabitants have evolved and thrived, and toward levels that will eventually be unsustainable for life as it currently exists on earth. We need to start reversing these trends now, or else we will pass a "point of no return." ... and it looks like that point is coming sooner, rather than later.

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GENEVA — The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere grew at a record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fuelling a 20-meter rise in sea levels and…

10/28/2017

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced that it had cited and taken action in 127 cases against contractors who had violated at least one of the agency’s lead-based paint rules or acts. The announcement was the highlight of this year’s “Lead Week”, the federal government’s multi-agency effort to “protect the public, especially young children, from exposure to lead in paint.” [ 405 more words ]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday announced that it had cited and taken action in 127 cases against contractors who had violated at least one of the agency’s lead-based paint…