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**LIB TALKS: A Day for Thanksgiving: What’s Good In the Midst of a Toxic World? Points of Progress & Simple Quick TIPs for Having a Healthier Home & Life.**RI/MA RESOURCE OF THE MONTH: Osborne Organics**EMFS IN RI: RI Safe Technology Group**EMF CONCERNS & INFO: A Positive Note re: the Growth of Awareness About the 5G Problem
** NOTICE
ABOUT CONTACTING TIP: Our new mail
address is: P.O. Box 40572, Providence, RI 02940.
*********************************************LIB TALKS********************************************* A DAY FOR THANKSGIVING THIS TIP TALKS OFFERS SOME REASONS TO HOPE, AND SOME WAYS THAT LIBERTY COPES ON A BUDGET
**WHAT’S GOOD IN THE MIDST OF A TOXIC WORLD?
There are a bunch of positive actions happening or
being tried now.
One in this issue is the story of the environmentally
savvy Pope!
**WHAT IS SIMPLE & AFFORDABLE THAT WE CAN WE DO
FOR OUR OWN
HEALTH & PROTECTION?
** Avoid Plasticizers Leaching
Into Food: Buy refrigerated &
frozen– heat is what causes the bad stuff to come out and contaminate. (Positive Note: Winter is the safest season for all packaged foods – no high
temperature transport!)
**Cook
With Iron Frying Pans & Stainless Steel Pots – No “non-stick” toxic
stuff to sully your food. Also, guess
what – you can heat food in your healthy toaster oven just about as well as in
a toxic microwave.
**KNOW YOUR STORES – Good Stuff
Can be Affordable:
Surprise – you never know the best
place to buy an item until you’ve looked around! In my neck of the woods, sometimes that’s actually Whole Foods
Market (antibiotic free policy, non-GMO labels on shelves, even 18 eggs for
the price of 12) and
Trader Joe’s (Non-GMO
policy for their brand, inexpensive cheddar puffs & whole grain bread
)
The mainstream, Stop & Shop
& Shaw’s, are usually more expensive for the healthy stuff! But more surprise:
Often organic & natural can be
found in the heavy-discount places,
Ocean State Job Lot (Season
sardines in non-BPA etc. can, honey in glass jars, extra virgin olive &
avocado oils).
Market Basket.
(Low-cost organic & antibiotic free meat & produce.)
**AFFORDABLE HEALTHY HOME WATER & AIR TIPS:
Water Filters: On the kitchen faucet & bathroom shower.
(Purer & cheaper drinking
water than that plastic bottled water)
**Air Cleaners, Fragrance Free
& Non-Toxic Cleaning Products: Dr.
Bronner’s Liquid Soap (We use for washing dishes & shampoo), Vinegar &
Baking Soda, Bon Ami scouring powder (No chlorine bleach). Zeolite non-toxic air freshening powder.
BE
THANKFUL! THERE ARE MANY WAYS TOWARD A
LESS TOXIC WORLD & MANY GOOD PEOPLE WORKING TOWARDS THAT!
Blessings, Liberty G
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CHIP OSBORNE, OSBORNE
ORGANICS
11
Laurel Street, Marblehead, MA 01945
Tel.,
781-631-2468 E-Mail: co@osborneorganics.com
Website: www.osborneorganics.com
Consulting service for business, municipal,
institutional, & residential clients.
to create & maintain natural, self-sustaining turf without synthetic
fertilizers & chemical pesticides. On-site evaluations, public
presentations; product specs, maintenance schedules; construction design;
training programs: Chip is a foremost authority on organic land care,
especially turf.
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EMFS IN RHODE ISLAND In RI, visit these sites for information, & consider setting up a showing of “Generation Zapped” in your neck of the woods.https://www.facebook.com/RhodeIslandersforSafeTechnology/
& http://toxicsinfo.org/safertechnology.htm
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EMF CONCERNS & INFO & ACTION A POSITIVE NOTE FROM 5G CRISIS,A PROJECT OF AMERICANS FOR RESPONSIBLE TECHNOLOGY
Phone: 516-883-0887
Email: Report@5gcrisis.com
This Thanksgiving, we want to
express our gratitude and appreciation for your support of our efforts and for
the work you have done to raise awareness about the emerging 5G public health
issue. Within a 14-month period,
Americans for Responsible Technology has grown from being a coalition of 5
community organizations to being a coalition of over 103 organizations based in
35 states.
You can view the list here.
www.5gcrisis.com/join-a-group
Our collective outreach efforts have piqued the
interests of key decision makers across America and around the world. While
there is much more work to be done, together, we are on a
promising path towards much-needed political reform and safer technology for all.
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THE POPE
MIGHT MAKE DESTROYING THE EARTH A SIN.
WILL
CATHOLICS LISTEN?
https://grist.org/article/the-pope-might-make-destroying-the-earth-a-sin-will-catholics-listen/?utm_content=buffer38f8a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Zoya
Teirstein Nov 22, 2019
The Grist
Pope Francis is not your average pope. He’s weighed in on prison reform and
women’s rights, and he wrote a whole encyclical on climate change in 2015. On
Friday, at the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal
Law, Francis waded into the climate change debate again with an unusual idea:
perhaps environmental destruction should be classified as an official sin.
During his speech, Francis said he was thinking about adding
“ecological sin against the common home” to the catechism, the book that
summarizes Catholic belief. “It is a sin against future generations and is
manifested in the acts and habits of pollution and destruction of the harmony
of the environment,” he said.
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ACTIONS
(JUSTICE GETS
MONSANTO – AGAIN & AGAIN!)
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The embattled biotech
company Monsanto will have to pay a hefty fine of $10 million for spraying a
dangerous pesticide on “research crops” in Hawaii. Over 160 lbs if the
pesticide used was stockpiled and sprayed even after it was banned by the US
government. Monsanto
admitted that it used the pesticide containing methyl parathion, the active
ingredient in Penncap-M, on corn seed and other crops on the Hawaii island of
Maui back in 2014. The company also did this knowing that it was
prohibited by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the previous year. The
controversial company told its employees to go back into the sprayed fields
seven days after the toxic Pennicap-M was used, whereas the area should have
been closed off for 31 days.
The US Justice Department, which investigated the case, said that
over 72 kg (160 lbs) of the chemical was illegally stored at a company
facility, endangering “the environment, surrounding communities and Monsanto
workers.” Methyl parathion is fatal if inhaled and hazardous if swallowed.
Things are not looking
up for Monsanto. The company has agreed to pay $10 million, which
includes a $6 million criminal fine and $4 million in community service
payments. The payoff is part of a deal by which federal prosecutors will
dismiss felony charges against Monsanto in two years if it abides by the law.
This news comes as
Monsanto faces a flurry of lawsuits over the potential hazards of its products.
Just yesterday, Canadian lawyers launched a $500 million lawsuit against
Monsanto and its owner, Bayer of Germany. It says Canadian plaintiffs affected
by weed killer Roundup have been diagnosed with different forms of cancer,
including brain and lung cancer. -RT
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** CLEVER CONSUMER (That’s you!) CAMPAIGN REMINDER: TIP TALKS seeks to increase your consumer IQ & abilities. Remember, if you tell the supplier, retailer, or producer what you will or won’t BUY, they care! (Also share your knowledge with friends & family)******************************************************************************************
If you can’t afford to
buy new food storage containers, you can also reuse sustainable food
containers. You can wash your glass pasta jars, sauerkraut containers, etc. and
use them over and over again. Reusing is always more sustainable than using
disposables, or even recycling.
For the full story about
why plastic is unhealthy & more alternatives, see:
Read Next: Why it’s time to move beyond plastic — and 8 ways you can help and Sustainable cookware
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