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The Devastating Health Impacts of Oil & Gas

October 6, 2025 by Marion Leave a Comment

Here is yet another reason to stop using fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are destroying not only the climate, but also our health. The health impacts of using oil and gas are devastating—and expensive.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: air pollution, asthma, climate crisis, fossil fuels, health, homelessness, medical debt, nitrogen dioxide

Climate’s Eye-opening Impact on Health

February 24, 2025 by Marion Leave a Comment

Here’s yet another reason why mitigating climate crisis is so very important. It’s affecting our health in many ways, the newest of which is wildfires. Did you know we are being affected by California’s wildfires, even though we live in the East?

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: California wildfires, climate crisis, health, PurpleAir, The Lancet, Third Act, WHO, Yale Climate Connection

The Astonishing Facts About Plastic Pollution in Pennsylvania

January 6, 2025 by Marion 1 Comment

Plastic pollution in Pennsylvania? Yes, and it’s affecting all of us. Did you know microplastics have been found in every river, lake and stream in Pennsylvania, including our drinking water? But […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Zero Waste Tagged With: Berkey water filter, climate crisis, health, microplastics, planetary boundaries, plastic pollution, sustainable living

It’s Time to Stop the Madness

July 8, 2024 by Marion Leave a Comment

It’s time to stop the madness.  Fossil fuel industries have taken profit over people and planet to new heights, as they work aggressively to stop any progress on mitigating climate crisis. 

Filed Under: Blog, Energy, Featured Tagged With: climate crisis, crop failure, environment, fossil fuels, health, ocean heat, pollution, Sierra Club

Ground Level Ozone: The Silent Health Threat

January 2, 2024 by Marion Leave a Comment

Have you noticed that air quality alert days are increasing in our area?  We need to take these alerts seriously.  The alerts include ground level ozone, particulate matter (2.5 micrometers and 10 micrometers), carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and wildfire smoke.  All these pollutants are harmful to our health, but I will focus on ozone in this blog.

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: air purifier, air quality alerts, Article 1 Section 27, environment, ground level ozone, health, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter

On the Road to Healing

March 10, 2013 by Sari Leave a Comment

by Lois Zinn  No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.                        ~Aesop “You’ve come such a long way” said my upstairs neighbor, Frannie when I told […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: alternative healthcare, community, health

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