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Is Your Computer Designed for the Dump?

Nov 9, 2010Charles MargulisGeneral Insights, Tips

Have you seen the Story of Stuff? Millions of people have viewed Annie Leonard’s viral web video highlighting the health and environmental impacts of our consumer culture. Now, Annie returns with the Story of Electronics, a new video questioning the “designed for the...

Californians Are Getting Greenwashed This Election!

Oct 29, 2010Sean SullivanEnergy, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

It’s not like you haven’t been bombarded with the fact that there is an election going on in California since Valentine’s Day. And now that the time to vote is upon every American, our mailboxes are stuffed with political mailers and our doors are littered with...

Why Vote No on Proposition 26 (The Polluters Protection Act)? If Polluters Don’t Pay, Taxpayers Will

Oct 20, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

Big oil, tobacco, and liquor companies claim Prop 26 is about “taxpayer protection”—when in fact it’s the opposite. This proposition is a thinly veiled attempt to redefine clean up fees as taxes, shifting the financial burden onto taxpayers. Since the industrial age...

Prop 23 is…DIRTY

Oct 1, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Uncategorized

Ipad commercial? Nope. Watch it to find out just how harmful Proposition 23 really is.

Majestic Plastic? Or Waste That Won’t Die…

Sep 10, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Plastics, Uncategorized

We’ve written about the Pacific Garbage Patch before. This huge mass (twice the size of Texas!) of discarded plastic shows that when it comes to throwing away plastic, there simply is no Away. All those forgotten plastic toys, cups, bottles, lighters and other...

Protecting Kids from Leady Products in Stores: My Summer as a CEH Intern

Sep 7, 2010Salvador MateoChildren's Health, General Insights, Personal Stories

This past summer, the Center for Environmental Health hosted two high school interns from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment, a grant-making public charity that supports grassroots initiatives to inspire community action to protect the...

When the Chemical Industry Attacks, Science Loses

Sep 3, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

In the last few weeks, five out of nine members of a scientific panel that advises the state of California on toxic chemical safety have been fired, following lobbying by the chemical industry and a conservative group, the Pacific Legal Foundation, which targets...

Genetic Test Kits: Predictions of the Future or Pseudo-Science Scam?

Jul 26, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

In testimony to Congress last week, the General Accounting Office (GAO) thoroughly debunked the marketing of direct-to-consumer genetic test kits, charging that the biotech companies who peddle this high-tech snake-oil scam are guilty of providing “misleading test...

There’s What in My Shampoo? Watch the Story of Cosmetics Video!

Jul 21, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

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 do you ever wonder what all those complicated ingredients listed on the back of your favorite shampoo or perfume actually...

Confessions of a Young Man’s Love For Jewelry… Compliance Testing

Jul 12, 2010Aimee DewingChildren's Health, General Insights, Personal Stories

If you were to search for men who admit to frequenting Claire’s Boutique – where your teenage daughters shop for clothes, jewelry, and other fashion accessories with short shelf lives – I am quite certain that you would spend a long time looking. I visit this store...