Green issues are sometimes complex. We need to recycle many things, like electronics, but we certainly don’t want to poison others in the process. Efforts to protect the environment and conserve valuable resources must be coupled with proper health and safety procedures. Unfortunately, just saying this doesn’t make it happen. Developing countries are becoming a dumping ground for much toxic waste and proper environmental health and safety is being ignored, both by local opportunists and suppliers of e-Waste from developed nations.
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Poisoning the Poor with eWaste in Ghana
(via greenchemistry.wordpress.com)
Submitted by chemrat on Thu, 2008-08-07 09:27. | Tags: take action | chemistry | e-waste recovery | e-wastem Ghana | education | environment | environmental health | green chemistry | greenpeace | health | news | recycling | science and society | sustainability | toxic chemicals

Amphibian Ark
(via www.amphibianark.org)
Amphibians are an important component of the global ecosystem, as indicators of environmental health and contributors to human health. They watched the dinosaurs come and go, but today almost half of them are themselves threatened with extinction. Addressing the amphibian extinction crisis represents the greatest species conservation challenge in the
Submitted by BonoboBob on Mon, 2008-02-25 00:35. | Tags: nature | science | take action | amphibians | conservation | disease | endangered species extinction animals | environmental health | frog | frogs | newt | newts