Dee Stofko | September 1, 2010
Perhaps you have heard—more than 1,000 cases of salmonella caused by tainted eggs has been the latest failure of the FDA to keep our food supply safe. Over half a billion of these eggs came from two Iowa factory farms where hens live in cages so small they can barely move. These farms have had [...]
Dee Stofko | July 2, 2010
In President Obama’s address from the Oval Office on Tuesday, June 15th, he recognized that American presidents have been attempting to wean the country from its dependence on foreign oil for over 30 years. With the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico and the consequent pollution of the Gulf waters by [...]
Dee Stofko | June 1, 2010
I am sure that you, like most of the inhabitants of the United States, are appalled by the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is spewing between 5,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil per day (depending on which estimate you go with) into the Gulf of Mexico. What caused [...]
Dee Stofko | March 30, 2010
Some of you may have seen the “Popcorn” YouTube video which shows teens popping popcorn by pointing their ringing cell phones toward unpopped kernals. It horrified me! I had been reading on www.Mercola.com how Dr. Mercola believes cell phones are dangerous. He suggests you do not sit with your cell phone in your pocket or [...]
Dee Stofko | February 28, 2010
This month, two distinctly different items interested me enough to want to write about them. One was the “Bloom Box”, featured on CBS 60 Minutes and known as “a little power plant-in-a-box”. Its inventor, K.R. Sridhar, says a Bloom Box the size of a refrigerator in everyone’s back yard could do away with the energy [...]
Melissa Bartell | January 20, 2010
Regarding “Your Green Tip” by Dee Stofko in the January UUCOC Newsletter. The report that is quote titled: “The Global Warming Debate – A Layman’s Guide to the Science and Controversy” has apparently moved. To access the report in slide form, go to the link below: http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/26660/The-Global-Warming-Debate—Introduction?private_key=665a-54a6-1b4a-2fc5-336c-9e78-af1a-4fda All slides labeled “cce1976” pertain to this report.
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