The 3rd Annual Toxies Awards Ceremony, brought to you by Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy (CHANGE), puts a Hollywood spin on the life span and impact of toxic chemicals in our world. You can watch the event live on the web on Sunday, June 24th, 2012 starting at 7:00 pm EST/4:00 pm PST. The Toxies mix satire with toxins to educate us about the pervasive presence of these chemicals and make cleaning up our poisoned bodies and world loads of fun! The more we know about these persistent players the more able we will be to implement programs to retire them from use. Don’t miss it! Nei Jing Now would love to know what you learned and how you are inspired. Please tell us your thoughts here or on our Facebook page.
Here’s the Trailer:
3rd Annual Toxies – Red Carpet Awards for Toxic Chemicals!
Here’s their website:
Just yesterday I was trying a newly bought shaving cream, and that got me thinking, this has what 50 fantastic chemicals! It surely feels nice, smells nice; the company surely has patents on it; what other natural thing I could possibly use instead of it (maybe for bathing soap I sorta know natural substitutes; I know my mother used shikakai for her hair) etc. etc. thoughts went until I finished shaving and moved on with my daily life.
Interesting to see the costumes in the trailer after coming from SF and the pride parade costumes!
Rishi, indeed, we are being inundated by chemicals in our daily lives in our soaps, shampoos, shaving creams, detergents, pesticides, herbicides, etc. I’ll look around for an old time barber to ask what they used to use in the old days as shaving cream. Happy Pride Parade Day.