Green Living Workshop update week 20 2007

Sustainable Works Green Living Workshops,

We have three workshops running so scroll down to find your workshop-

Tuesdays @ Santa Monica Public Library
Wednesdays @ Sustainable Works
Sundays @ CPUM

Couple of articles and products to add to the blog:

Common chemicals are linked to breast cancer

Gov. acts to salvage solar in California

Villaraigosa to offer green plan for L.A.

Smart Strip

Kill a Watt
Kill a Watt review


Tuesday Workshop
Previous Class week 4 CHEMICALS 5/22
Next Class week 5 TRANSPORTATION&TRAVEL 5/29
for Next Week:
read TRANSPORTATION&TRAVEL Chapter
3 or more CHEMICAL Solutions
Life Style Survey Collected

CHEMICALS

Chemicals to Avoid Smart Chart

Alternative Household Product Recipes

Seafood Watch List Guides

The website to find the safest cosmetic products available-
Skin Deep
has just been updated! Take a look at the best resource available for finding out the safety of your daily hygiene products.
The Environmental Working Group, who put together the Skin Deep website, is a terrific resource for information regarding environmental health.
www.ewg.org

PVC Poison Plastic

Wednesday Workshop
Previous Class week 4 CHEMICALS 5/23
Next Class week 5 TRANSPORTATION&TRAVEL 5/30
for Next Week:
read TRANSPORTATION&TRAVEL Chapter
3 or more CHEMICAL Solutions
Life Style Survey Collected


CHEMICALS

Chemicals to Avoid Smart Chart

Alternative Household Product Recipes

Seafood Watch List Guides

The website to find the safest cosmetic products available-
Skin Deep
has just been updated! Take a look at the best resource available for finding out the safety of your daily hygiene products.
The Environmental Working Group, who put together the Skin Deep website, is a terrific resource for information regarding environmental health.
www.ewg.org

PVC Poison Plastic

Sunday Workshops
Previous Class week 2 ENERGY 5/20
Next Class week 3 WASTE 5/27
for Next Week:
read WASTE Chapter
3 or more ENERGY Solutions

ENERGY
An Inconvenient Truth

Smoke, Mirrors and Hot Air
The Union of Concerned Scientists article on the connection between the "Global Warming skeptics", their funding by Exxon Mobile, and the skeptics history of performing the same disception for the Tobacco industry.

HeatisOnline.org
Excellent web resource for tracking the real information about Global Warming.
Written by Ross Gelbspan, author of the two ground breaking books on Global Warming we mentioned, The Heat is On and
Boiling Point.

Misinformation regarding Global Warming provided by Exxon

How to sign up for LADWP Green Power

CO2 offset price comparisons
link to the ever growing and changing list of organizations to offset your CO2 based on price

CO2 recommendations from Tufts University

Carbon Offset Consumer Handout from Tufts University

CFL Calculator

NPR's new excellent series on Climate Change