Gardeners and sprinkler-lovers beware: A new study found dangerous levels of lead and other chemicals that had leached into water that had been sitting in new garden hoses for an extended period of time.
The always-challenging reconciliation of discipline and freedom is a running theme in John Logan’s Tony Award-winning play, “Red”which opened Friday at Performance Network—starting with the opening scene: a young assistant, reporting to work for his first day in legendary painter Mark Rothko’s studio, is ordered to stand in a particular ...
Students from a design class at Eastern Michigan University designed and built workspaces for the new offices of the Ecology Center, a 40-year-old nonprofit environmental research and advocacy organization. The Ecology Center recently moved into new headquarters at 339 E. Liberty St., known as the Handicraft Building.
Ann Arbor’s Ecology Center has won a $300,000 grant to work with three Detroit health care providers to improve access to healthful food, especially for children, the nonprofit announced. The three-year W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant will be used to work with food growers and suppliers, community organizations and health care ...
A suspected cancer-causing toxin banned from children's pajamas in the 1970s was found in one-third of 101 baby products -- including products bought in Ann Arbor -- that were recently tested for flame retardants, a new study says.
The Ecology Center, a 40-year-old nonprofit environmental research and advocacy organization, is moving its headquarters to a new location in downtown Ann Arbor. The center will almost double its current office area when it moves into 5,000 square feet of renovated space on the third-floor of 339 E. Liberty St., known as the HandiCraft Building, in June.
With scientists making doomsday predictions about carbon emissions and global warming, and global warming doubters calling those predictions a myth, it’s enough to get an environmentalist down. But Mike Garfield, the director of the Ecology Center, a membership-based nonprofit environmental organization in Ann Arbor, isn't pessimistic.
The number of toys with lead in them has decreased markedly in the last year, but the number children's products on store shelves found with toxins in them is still high, the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor said Tuesday. The results are available online today as part of the non-profit's ...
The Ann Arbor non-profit organization Ecology Center released its 3rd-annual Consumer Guide to Toxic Chemical Toys on Tuesday. The guide is made up of a database on www.HealthyStuff.org of children's products as well as apparel and accessories, pet toys and vehicles - it has tested for toxic levels of lead, ...
From women’s handbags to pet toys, many of the everyday products that consumers use contain toxic chemicals like lead and arsenic, the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center said in an announcement Wednesday. The environmental group released a new Web site, www.HealthyStuff.org, to host a database full of products they tested for ...
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