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In the News: Environmental Working Group Announces New Food Score Card, LEGO to stop building with Oil, Local Water Knowledge

Environmental Working Group’s Food Score Card: Rate Your Plate

It?s finally here! More than three years in the making, EWG?s Food Scores: Rate Your Plate, the most comprehensive food database available today, is ready to help guide you to healthier, greener and cleaner food choices.This easy-to-use online food database and mobile app is designed to revolutionize the way we shop and eat. With information on more than 80,000 foods and 5,000 ingredients from 1,500 brands, EWG?s unique scoring system rates foods based on nutrition, food additives, contaminants and degree of processing. Click here right now to start using EWG?s Food Scores: Rate Your Plate and see how your favorite foods score!

Lego Ends Shell Partnership Following Greenpeace Campaign

imagesThe Danish company which creates the colorful and vary-sized bricks we all love to build with, prides itself on its green credentials, from energy efficiency to the use of renewable energy; In ending a partnership begun in the 1960s, they will look for alternatives to crude oil to make its bricks.? All this thanks to creative, persistent, and large scale efforts by Greenpeace, concerned that a maker of children’s toys aligns itself with a corporation planning to drill in the Arctic.? As Mark Borkoski, brand consultant states, “This is a wake-up call to oil and gas and other energy companies, that need to recognize they cannot lobby the [younger] generation that is going to inherit the earth.”? Read the full article and watch the powerful campaign video here.

Myths and Facts about Long Island Groundwater

UnknownThe water we drink from our taps here, comes from aquifers (multiple) beneath our land.? Because of the uniqueness of this source — for example, city water is piped from reservoirs upstate — we may not know much about where it comes from, how it gets to us, and ways in which we, here on the surface, effect the quality.? One important fact:? aquifers are a limited, non-renewable clean water source, formed by glaciers thousands of years ago.? Check out some more facts about where our water comes from and dangers to this natural source by clicking here.

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