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The BabySafe Show - with Patti Wood

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Science supports keeping your wireless devices away from your developing baby.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about states are finally prohibiting PFAS in all products, how polluting companies can be excused from clean air regulations by emailing the EPA, and how big banks are quietly advising clients that the world will fail to meet climate goals, and they should invest in air conditioning! Then Patti talks about the development of the BabySafe Project, which encourages pregnant women to keep their cell phones and other wireless devices away from their developing baby. More information on the show website, www.GreenStreetNews.org. 


Green Street - The BabySafe Show

Links from the Interview

The BabySafe Project: https://www.babysafeproject.org/


Links from the News

EPA sets up email address for presidential exemptions: https://www.eenews.net/articles/want-a-clean-air-act-exemption-just-email-epa/



Toxic Turf - with Amy Griffin

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

A soccer coach talks about young soccer goalies who developed lymphoma after playing for years on artificial turf.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug discuss the continuing presence of lead in many consumer products including spices, the city of Paris replacing parking spots with trees to improve the quality of life and address climate concerns, and President Trump’s troubling plan to re-start the Keystone XL pipeline project. Then former soccer star and coach Amy Griffin talks about artificial turf fields, their negative impact on young athletes, including alarming increases in cancer, and her growing list of young athletes who have been affected. 


Green Street Amy Griffin podcast


Links from the Interview:

The non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is helping Amy Griffin to push back against artificial turf fields: https://peer.org/amy-griffin-amys-list-and-toxic-turf-2/


Links from the News

Lead poisoning is a problem for everyone, especially some ethnic communities: https://www.pureearth.org/global-lead-program/lead-poisoning/



President-elect Trump plans to re-open the Keystone XL pipeline project: https://www.ehn.org/trump-plans-to-revive-keystone-xl-2669999072.html

Marketing Food to Kids - with Dr. Charlene Elliot

  • Writer: Green Street Radio
    Green Street Radio

Food for kids is a $130 billion dollar business. No wonder our kids are being targeted by food marketers!


This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the role of nitrous oxide in climate change (it’s a greenhouse gas that’s 300 times more powerful than CO2 ), and how the world is beginning to realize that plastic is a toxic substance, just in time for the UN worldwide plastic treaty talks in South Korea. Then Dr. Charlene Elliot from the University of Calgary talks about the many ways in which food is marketed to children in every stage of their lives, and how equipping them with tools to understand how they are being targeted may be more effective than government regulation. 


Marketing Food to Kids with Dr. Charlene Elliot

Photo by Debby Herold

Charlene Elliott is the Canada Research Chair in Food Marketing and Children’s Health at the University of Calgary. She is Professor of Communication, jointly appointed with the Faculty of Kinesiology. Charlene’s program of research focuses on food marketing, promotion and policy (with a particular emphasis on foods targeted at children), sensory communication and regulation, and taste/taste cultures. She has published extensively in these areas and is also the editor of several books, including How Canadians Communicate about Food: Promotion, Consumption and Controversy (2016) and Communication in Question: Communication in Question: Competing Perspectives on Controversial Issues in Communication Studies, 2nd Edition (2013).


Links from the Interview

Charlene Elliot's page at the University of Calgary: https://grad.ucalgary.ca/future-students/supervisor/charlene-elliott



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