Eco-Friendly Fireworks for 4th of July
Posted By Yuka Yoneda On July 3, 2009 @ 4:00 pm In Air quality | 1 Comment
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What’s not to love about fireworks? Bright bursts of color, awe-inspiring flashes of light… asthma??!!! More and more people have been voicing their concerns about the health risks (from particle-filled smoke and lung-clogging antimony to heart-toxic Barium [5] and body-contaminating perchlorates [6]) associated with our favorite nighttime spectacles, especially since we’ll be experiencing a ton of them tomorrow for 4th of July [7]. Are there such things as eco-friendly fireworks? Scientists are busy working on them right now, but at the moment, they are too cost-prohibitive to make an appearance in displays this year.
Since we can’t purport to be green fireworks experts, here are the articles that we’ve found to be the most informative on the subject:
Eco-Friendly Fireworks Offer Safer Alternatives [8] from Discovery News
Oh No Mommy, Will the Greenies Take Fireworks Away from Us? [9] (haha) from Treehugger
Eco-Friendly Fireworks and Other Green Alternatives for July 4th [10] from Greenopia
+ 5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Green Your 4th of July [7]
Image credit: d4rr3ll [11] and Mr. Magoo ICU [12]
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[5] Barium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barium
[6] perchlorates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate
[7] 4th of July: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/02/5-cheap-and-easy-last-minute-ways-to-green-your-fourth-of-july/
[8] Eco-Friendly Fireworks Offer Safer Alternatives: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/02/eco-friendly-fireworks.html
[9] Oh No Mommy, Will the Greenies Take Fireworks Away from Us?: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/4th-of-july-green-eco-fireworks-statistics.php?dcitc=th_rss
[10] Eco-Friendly Fireworks and Other Green Alternatives for July 4th: http://www.greenopia.com/USA/news/15453/7-1-2009/Eco-Fireworks-and-Other-Green-Alternatives-for-July-4th
[11] d4rr3ll: http://www.flickr.com/photos/d4rr3ll/
[12] Mr. Magoo ICU: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_magoo_icu/
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