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getmisch<p>Attorney quote is right. If this were a local hospital, the AG office would be investigating, instead of defending, the behavior. Since it's brown people, they're defending breaking state law, the selling of their organs. <br><a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/jails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jails</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/several" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>several</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/counties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counties</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/selling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selling</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/organs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organs</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/dead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dead</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/against" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>against</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/without" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>without</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/notification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notification</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/kin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kin</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/one" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>one</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/third" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>third</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/lungs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lungs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/from" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>from</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/prisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prisoners</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/supremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supremacy</span></a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/organ-harvesting-university-of-alabama-corrections-department-ddf8f08ccedf4998961f20e2ff0740b1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/organ-harve</span><span class="invisible">sting-university-of-alabama-corrections-department-ddf8f08ccedf4998961f20e2ff0740b1</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Wool can be made without killing animals. I think we need to go back to using <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hemp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hemp</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wood" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wood</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wool" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wool</span></a> -- and less synthetics. But most of all, make furniture and rugs that last -- so generation after generation can use them!</p><p>What You Need to Know About <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffGassing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OffGassing</span></a></p><p>Even after an install, a project’s furnishings and finishes can leach harmful chemicals into the air for years through a process called off-gassing. Here’s how you can combat it.</p><p>by Audrey Gray</p><p>&quot;&#39;Okay, I want to tell you about some things,&#39; she recalls telling her client, going on to carefully explain the dangers inherent in both flooring choices—primarily the health impacts of chemical inhalants. Not only would these <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chemicals</span></a> flood a home during the installation of new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carpet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carpet</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vinyl</span></a> planks, but they would continue to gradually leach into the air for years to come—a more subtle (but dangerous) process referred to as off-gassing. Thompson didn’t want her client’s family exposed to a vapor stew of chemicals every day, least of all in the yoga space, where the whole point was to breathe deeply while near the floor.</p><p>&quot;She offered her client some carefully sourced options such as an all-wool carpet with a natural <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rubber" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rubber</span></a> pad, and advocated for solid, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainably" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sustainably</span></a> sourced wood downstairs instead of a composite of plastics. &#39;I thought she’d be excited,&#39; Thompson says. &#39;But because of her beliefs about animal rights, I learned that wool wasn’t acceptable to her…and there were price point issues too. I thought, ‘Wow, this is a whole new level I hadn’t encountered.’”</p><p>&quot;Welcome to what materials experts call &#39;one of the most complicated issues in health and wellness,&#39; the murky and unregulated (at least in the U.S.—Europe is much stricter) relationships humans have with thousands of airborne <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>toxins</span></a> emanating from our building materials, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/furnishings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>furnishings</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleaningProducts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CleaningProducts</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarInteriors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CarInteriors</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iPads" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iPads</span></a>, and even <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/candles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>candles</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;&#39;Nobody’s telling you what is coming from all those vapors mixing in the air,&#39; says Jillian Pritchard Cooke, the founder of Wellness Within Your Walls, an education consultancy focused on dramatically reducing the dangers of off-gassing in the built environment. &#39;It’s up to us to understand the individual effects each chemical can have on your <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NervousSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NervousSystem</span></a>, your <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lungs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lungs</span></a>, and your cellular makeup. We need to be doing right by our clients.&#39;</p><p>&quot;Designers have, of course, been aware of the dangers of volatile organic compounds (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VOCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VOCs</span></a>) for a long time, and have helped influence some wins in the marketplace, like the rising popularity of low- or no-VOC paints and the 2015 ban Home Depot and Lowe’s instituted in 2015 on toxic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/phthalates" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phthalates</span></a> (a class of industrial chemicals that help make plastic bendy) in flooring.</p><p>&quot;But the problem endures, and unfortunately, many of the worst effects of VOCs—showing up in health conditions—accumulate over long periods of time. </p><p>&quot;One of the best arguments for incorporating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vintage</span></a> pieces in design, apart from saving space in landfills and decreasing carbon emissions, is that they are far safer from an off-gassing perspective. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Recycling</span></a> building materials (for instance, saving the doors during a retrofit) helps too.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-you-need-to-know-about-off-gassing?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">getpocket.com/explore/item/wha</span><span class="invisible">t-you-need-to-know-about-off-gassing?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Recycle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Repair" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Repair</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reuse</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThrowawayCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThrowawayCulture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Synthetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Synthetics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plastics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Plastics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Underconsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Underconsumption</span></a></p>