Natural Resources Defense Council: Smarter Living
The home page tabs provide access to News, Issues, Policies, Smarter Living options, and more.
The Smarter Living sections include a wide range of resources and information, including
- A searchable Chemical Index to learn about chemicals commonly used in everyday products, find out what the health concerns and sources of exposure are, and how to stay safe.
- An eating local section with maps to local farmer’s markets, search box for produce in season by state, food label information, and more
- Food tips and news, including recipes and shopping wise advice
- Health tips and news, including health reports and pet care advice
- Home and yard tips and news under topics as energy, water & air, yard & garden
- Smart Shopper’s Guides
Related Resources
- Household Products Databases – This database links over 8,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by the manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients
- ToxNet – Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases
Related Articles
- Great News! (chefann.com)
- Keeping Your Food and Water Safe (everydayhealth.com)
- 42 Disease Clusters Identified In U.S. (huffingtonpost.com)
- “Natural Resources Defense Council: One out of three counties in the US lower 48 states faces an increased risk of water shortages due to climate change” and related posts (coyotegulch.wordpress.com)
- Poll: Most Americans Support EPA and Clean Energy (doyourpart.com)
- Eating Environmentally (everydayhealth.com)
- Do you live in one of the nation’s ‘smartest regions for transportation’? (grist.org)
Take the Care for Your Air Tour
Get a quick glimpse of some of the most important ways to protect the air in your home by touring the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) House. Room-by-room, you’ll learn about the key pollutants and how to address them.
You may take the tour using the Flash supported video, or through the text version.
The Take Care of Your Air tour is provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
About
This blog presents a sampling of health and medical news and resources for all. Selected articles and resources will hopefully be of general interest but will also encourage further reading through posted references and other links. Currently I am focusing on public health, basic and applied research and very broadly on disease and healthy lifestyle topics.
Several times a month I will post items on international and global health issues. My Peace Corps Liberia experience (1980-81) has formed me as a global citizen in many ways and has challenged me to think of health and other topics in a more holistic manner.
Do you have an informational question in the health/medical area?
Email me at jmflahiff@yahoo.com
I will reply within 48 hours.
This blog is a companion site to my Health and Medical News and Resources Web site with…
- Great places to start (locating health information)
- Links to help from others (as health care providers and support groups)
- Interactive tools (as health calculators and apps)
- Select related news sites and blogs
My professional work experience and education includes over 15 years experience as a medical librarian and a Master’s in Library Science. In my most recent position I enjoyed contributing to our library’s blog, performing in depth literature searches, and collaborating with faculty, staff, students, and the general public.
While I will never be be able to keep up with the universe of current health/medical news, I subscribe to the following to glean entries for this blog.
- Science Daily – Your source for the latest research news
- MedlinePlus email updates from the US National Institutes of Health
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce – a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries
- US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) news now with updates on the agency’s efforts to “improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans”
- Research Buzz, “news about search engines, digital archives, online museums, databases, and other Internet information collections since 1998”
- Scout Report, a “weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators”
- KevinMD.com -“Social Media’s leading physician voice”
- EurekAlert-Medicine and Health
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