Grassroots with Patti & Doug Wood

Dec 06 2024 167 ep. 35 mins

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Green Street is a science-based environmental health program hosted by Patti and Doug Wood. Each week, we bring you news and information you need to know and practical solutions for navigating an unhealthy world.

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Spinning Science for Profit with Dr. Laura Vandenberg

Dec 06 2024 29 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the end of landline phone service, why you should never use a plastic cutting board, and how endocrine disrupting chemicals in consumer products can make your body do things it shouldn’t. Then Dr. Laura Vandenberg talks about her research on how big companies intentionally distort science and mislead the public to protect their

Toxic Turf with Amy Griffin

Nov 29 2024 29 mins

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 a

Marketing Food to Kids with Dr. Charlene Elliot

Nov 22 2024 29 mins

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 t

Kids, Firefighters, and Chemicals - with Dr. Kate Hoffman

Nov 15 2024 29 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug discuss the upcoming global plastic conference and the possibility of cutting plastic production, how microplastics are harboring pathogens in the water, good news about used clothing, and Donald Trump's pick to lead the EPA. Then Duke University researcher Dr. Kate Hoffman talks about the vulnerability of children to environmental exposure

The Fight Over Flouride - with Dr. Paul Connett

Nov 08 2024 29 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about Trump’s environmental agenda, the alarming national drought, how AI is creating mountains of e-waste, and the fact that it's raining PFAS chemicals in Miami (and everywhere else!) Then Dr. Paul Connett, founder of the Fluoride Action Network, talks about the dangers of adding fluoride to public drinking water, new U.S. governme

Green Street - Vito Buonsante

Oct 25 2024 28 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about a new court order forcing the EPA to regulate fluoride after studies show it lowers IQ in children, and how the loss of biodiversity threatens our own survival. Then Vito Buonsante, Policy Advisor for the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) talks about plastic, human health, and the worldwide effort to stop the re

The Mold-Radiation Connection with Dr. Sharon Goldberg

Oct 18 2024 29 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the legal liability of wastewater processors who sell biosolids containing PFAS for fertilizer, and how people around the Gulf Coast not only suffer from massive storms, but from the toxic pollutants those storms unleash from petrochemical plants and factories. Then integrative medicine physician Dr. Sharon Goldberg talks about h

The Decline of Sperm - with Dr. Shanna Swan

Oct 11 2024 29 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the rise in antibiotic resistance, how severe weather events fueled by climate change are impacting human health, and why there are PFAS chemicals in eggs in France. Then renowned epidemiologist and author Dr. Shanna Swan talks about her book “Countdown,” how sperm rates are declining precipitously worldwide, and what it mean

Pink Ribbons and Breast Cancer with Samantha King

Oct 04 2024 28 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about chemicals in food packaging linked to breast cancer, the EPA refusing to regulate PFAS chemicals in agricultural fertilizer, and how fluoride can impact brain development and IQ. Then in a Green Street recording from several years ago, Dr. Samantha King, author of “Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthr

Green Street - Heidi Hutner

Sep 27 2024 29 mins

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the State of California suing ExxonMobil for lying about plastic recycling, and how food contact materials contain thousands of toxic chemicals. Then Dr. Heidi Hutner talks about her film “Radioactive: the Women of Three Mile Island” and the recent news that Bill Gates has worked out a deal to re-start the shuttered nuclear f