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Scented products contain undisclosed compounds that are defined as hazardous chemicals under U.S. law, an environmental researcher says.
Steinemann’s analysis of six best-selling items (three air fresheners and three laundry products) found they contained nearly 100 volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, “but none of the VOCs were listed on any product label.”
Ten of the VOCs are […]

– Richard Crowson / Wichita Eagle (August 3, 2008)
Also along these hazy lines, have a look past the propaganda and dig into the data points that prove that the pollution will continue unabated.  More drastic measures will certainly go into effect.  How about surrounding the city with Made in China vacuum cleaners with HEPA […]

Taking a cue from a great post entitled “This Store Blows” over at Racked.com… I present to you the 514 version.  Here’s their concept:
Come summer, you see retailers around the city leaving the doors of their stores propped wide open in the hopes of enticing shoppers in with blasts of frigid air conditioning. In protest […]

More news on Toyota’s upcoming game plan. From plug-in hybrid’s to more efficient and smaller internal combustion engines and perhaps fully electric micro cars. Check out the story on Autopia, here.

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One of Alan DeSousa’s pet projects during his tenure on the council has been trying to improve air quality in Montreal.  I’m unaware of any legislative changes he has enacted to make this happen.  Have you?  Comment if you do.
With our first smog alert occurring earlier then ever before on the island things need to […]

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Quick read on a new ‘heat map’ that UQAM’s department of geography has produced showing localized hot spots around the city. (I need to find the actual map, sorry  - update below)
Take one large highway (HWY13) add two adjacent massive shopping mall parking lots and you get a micro climate of 42C in the […]

What exactly is their marketing strategy here?
Austin Healthmate HM400 - US $449.99 / CDN $579.99
I’d say it was, “Canadians think the internet is a series of tubes.” And that possibly their currency calculator is stuck in 1980?
So, I went to PurerAir.com instead and spoke with Debbie who was THE most helpful in taking my order […]