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Big Mistake: Hiring "Greenpeace Co-Founder" Patrick Moore To Peddle Vinyl Windows

11:41 am in greenpeace, materials, pvc, vinyl by TreeHugger

vinyl windows photo Doors and Windows PVC (CNW Group/Canadian Plastics Industry Association) They look so cute on their polyurethane sofa, in front of the wall of vinyl windows and doors, in the stock shot from the Canadian vinyl industry. The Vinyl salesmen are also promoting Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who has been a serial shill for the nuclear industry ("there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power"), loggers of the Amazon rainforest ("All these save-the-forests arguments are based on bad science...") the lumber industry ("clear-cutting is good for forests"), pharmaceutic...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)

8:22 am in bioplastics, bisphenol a, cancer, chemicals, plastics, toxins, TreeHugger Radio, vinyl by TreeHugger

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It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explores the dark side of this material of modernity. Listen to the podcast of this interview via iTunes...Read the full story on TreeHugger