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Tap Score's updated PFAS Water Testing Package is an add-on test that gives you full laboratory analysis and quantification of PFAS compounds in your water sample using US EPA Method 537 Revision 1.1 (or equivalent). This package is designed for customers who live near industrial areas. PFAS are ever more prevalent in the environment and are notorious for bio-accumulation in animal and human body tissues. Tap Score testing of PFAS detects analytes to concentrations below 10 Part-Per-Trillion. -
by Hope Jahren
PAPERBACK A New York Times Notable Book Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together. -
This professional laboratory test, recommended by the US Water Systems Council, is designed to target the most harmful and prevalent contaminants in US groundwater. Safeguard your home from naturally occurring hazards, industrial waste from agriculture, oil & gas, illegal dumping, and other sources. This package is designed for customers who:
- Are served by a private or shared well.
- Have a septic tank near the well or other source of potential bacterial contamination
- Are concerned about runoff from agricultural activity.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
- Are treating their own well water.
- Are concerned about contamination from oil and gas operations.
- Want to test for radiation related to a variety of sources.
- Are concerned about pesticides.
- Want to check silica and tannins levels to optimize treatment.
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by David George Haskell
PAPERBACK A Year's Watch in Nature In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands- sometimes millions-of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home. Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards. -
This professional laboratory test, recommended by the US Water Systems Council, is designed to target the most harmful and prevalent contaminants in US groundwater. Safeguard your home from naturally occurring hazards, industrial waste from agriculture, oil & gas, illegal dumping, and other sources. This package is designed for customers who:
- Are served by a private or shared well.
- Have a septic tank near the well or other source of potential bacterial contamination
- Are concerned about runoff from agricultural activity.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
- Are treating their own well water.
- Are concerned about contamination from oil and gas operations.
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Made in Japan with the finest materials, the Nisaku Crevice and Sidewalk Weeder is great for taking care of pesky weeds in sidewalks and crevices. Designed with ultra-durable Japanese stainless steel, the metal comb is strong and long lasting. Efficient design with an attractive and ergonomic wood handle. -
This professional laboratory test, recommended by the US Water Systems Council, is designed to target the most harmful and prevalent contaminants in US groundwater. Safeguard your home from naturally occurring hazards, industrial waste from agriculture, oil & gas, illegal dumping, and other sources. This package is designed for customers who:
- Are served by a private or shared well.
- Have a septic tank near the well or other source of potential bacterial contamination
- Are concerned about runoff from agricultural activity.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
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by Robin Wall Kimmerer
PAPERBACK A New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. -
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The NJP650 is the standard for Hori-Hori knives worldwide and is rated #1 in many gardening publications. It is forged by master blade craftsmen with the highest grade Japanese stainless steel for durability, precision and control that withstands intense use and harsh conditions. Invest in a quality tool that will outlast ordinary lawn, garden and survival equipment. -
This package covers a broad range of health risks that water utilities sometimes miss, and some they can't catch. Even if water leaving your local treatment plant is clean, it takes a 3-7 day journey to your home through a network of aging pipes that sometimes introduces new contaminants into your water. The Extended City Water Test adds testing for Chlorate, five Haloacetic acids, and radioactive particles to the Advanced City Water Test. This package is designed for customers who:
- Are served by a water utility they have doubts about.
- Live in a home built before 1986 or an area served by old infrastructure.
- Have young children or other vulnerable individuals in their home.
- Want to check for chemicals from plastic pipes.
- Are concerned about over-chlorination and the resulting chemicals.
- Want to include testing for chlorate, haloacetic acids, and radioactive particles in their test.
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by Leslie Buck
HARDBACK My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto HardcoverAt thirty-five, Leslie Buck made an impulsive decision to put her personal life on hold to pursue her passion. Leaving behind a full life of friends, love, and professional security, she became the first American woman to learn pruning from one of the most storied landscaping companies in Kyoto. Cutting Back recounts Buck’s bold journey and the revelations she has along the way. During her apprenticeship in Japan, she learns that the best Kyoto gardens look so natural they appear untouched by human hands, even though her crew spends hours meticulously cleaning every pebble in the streams. She is taught how to bring nature’s essence into a garden scene, how to design with native plants, and how to subtly direct a visitor through a landscape. But she learns the most important lessons from her fellow gardeners: how to balance strength with grace, seriousness with humor, and technique with heart.
