Ali Geering-Kline, Author at Center for Environmental Health

Eco-Tip of the Week: 3 Things To Avoid In Personal Care Products

Jun 9, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

For many of us, comforting sensations come to mind when we think about our personal care products and how they make us feel, smell, and look. But what really gives these products the characteristics we associate with that clean, shower-fresh feeling? Alluring...

Eco-Tip of the Week: How to Buy Safer Handbags

Jun 4, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

Lead in handbags. Cadmium in jewelry. These days, news about toxic heavy metal discoveries in fashion accessories seems to be popping up left and right. Just this week CEH discovered three items at Wal-Mart with very high levels of lead, including a Miley...

Stop Wal-Mart’s Poison Purses!

Jun 3, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights

It’s unbelievable: Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is still profiting from products that expose you and your children to lead. It’s time for the store to hear from you. Take Action: Click here to Urge Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke to agree to eliminate the lead...

Listen to CEH Executive Director Michael Green on Your Call, KALW Radio

May 27, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

“The reason that the government has focused so much on cure and so little on prevention is because there’s a buck to be made”, Michael Green said on today’s Your Call, KALW Radio program. The topic of today’s Your Call looks at the connections between the parallel...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Baby-Safe Practices

May 27, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips

Last week we discussed safe practices to reduce exposures to toxic chemicals when pregnant. Of course, potentially harmful exposures don’t end when the baby is born. As you probably know, young children are most vulnerable to the hazards of certain toxic chemicals...

Eco-Tip of the Week: How to Avoid Toxic Exposures during Pregnancy

May 20, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips

A lot of our friends are pregnant right now and wondering what they can do to protect themselves and their new baby from toxic chemicals. More and more women realize that exposures to toxics are especially harmful when they are pregnant or nursing. Many of the toxics...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Energy Saving Tips

May 14, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

The average American spends over 8 hours a day looking at screens on various electronic devices. From the office, to the store, to our homes, electronic devices are everywhere, and we use them constantly. Now, we have already discussed the mountains of e-waste that...

Eco-Tip of the Week: May is Water Awareness Month

May 7, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

Now that summer’s around the corner, swimming pools, sprinklers, trips to the beach or lake, water parks, and other wet ways to cool off are all starting to come to mind. During the warm spring and summer months, we tend to not only do more water-related activities;...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Mother’s Day Organic Flowers

Apr 30, 2010Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

April showers bring May flowers, as the saying goes. May also brings one of those important holidays for which we need to buy flowers for a loved one: Mother’s Day. Over the next week, millions of people will be buying and ordering flowers from local shops or...

Environmental Tip of the Week: Keeping Toxics out of your Yard

Apr 23, 2010Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

So, you might have heard the old nursery rhyme: Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? It goes on to say something about cockle shells and other weird plant names. But that first line asks a pretty good question. How does your garden grow? Do you...