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Eco Tip of the Week: 16 Things None of Us Should Ever Throw Away

Apr 16, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips

That two-gallon tank of old lawnmower fuel has been gathering dust in your garage for who knows how long. Rather than pouring toxic fuel down the drain or into the gutter, you take it to the local hazardous waste disposal facility, right? Most folks know that toxic...

Environmental Tip of the Week: Go Natural and Waste-Free for Easter

Apr 2, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

Popular holidays have become so commercialized and mass-produced, that they are hardly eco-friendly. Easter is a holiday that brings more than its share of wasteful, disposable plastic crap to stores months before it even happens. Clogging the shelves with...

Environmental Tip of the Week: Eating Green for Spring

Mar 26, 2010Ali Geering-KlineFood, Tips

You’ve probably heard it over and over again: Want to make your eating habits more eco-friendly? Buy organic! Eat less meat! However, one of the most important parts of eating green is learning to buy the specific fruits and vegetables that are ripe and in-season...

Environmental Tip of the Week: Celebrate the Environment in Spring!

Mar 19, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

With the longer daylight hours and warmer spring weather comes the opportunity to get outside and be active. Because the United Nations has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, why not celebrate our planet’s mind-boggling variety of life by taking...

Environmental Health Tip of the Week: Non-Toxic Home Cleaning

Mar 12, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

How many times have you plugged your nose or felt your eyes water from the chemicals in “extra-strength” household cleaners? We’ve become so accustomed to using chemical products that we’ve come to think we need to endure their sting in order keep our homes clean and...

Environmental Health Tip of the Week: Safe Baby Food

Mar 5, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips

Do you or someone you know have a new baby at home? If so, take note. One of the most important baby care safety tips is to make sure you are feeding your infant the most natural, pure foods you can find with no additives. Which means: try to feed your baby foods...

Generation Green’s Environmental Health Tip of the Week

Feb 19, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

The Center for Environmental Health is working on a number of projects to protect children and families from dangerous chemicals in plastics, like Bisphenol-A in plastic water bottles and canned food linings and lead in fake leather plastic. But the problem with...

Generation Green’s Environmental Health Tip of the Week

Feb 12, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips, Uncategorized

With all this talk and media coverage of hazardous ingredients in purses and jewelry, it’s about time that we think about making more informed choices of the consumer products we buy. These days, there are many helpful blogs with safety information and consumer...

At Target this Valentine’s Day: L is for Lead

Feb 9, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action, Tips

A Valentine’s Day stuffed bear sounds like a great gift for the kids in your life. But at Target, don’t get too close to the bear! After all the public attention to lead-tainted children’s products, you might think that major companies like Target would have systems...

I Got the Post-Holiday, Trash-Collected, Dump-Protected, Obsolete Electronics Blues

Feb 4, 2010Judy LevinEnvironmental Justice, Tips

New electronic gadgets top the holiday shopping lists of millions of Americans every year. And this means that every year, more and more obsolete and highly toxic electronic waste piles up in our basements, garages, closets, and (worst of all) town dumps. Here at the...