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Californians: Stop Pesticide Secrets

Mar 30, 2010Charlie PizarroUncategorized

Urge your California Senator and Assemblymember to stop allowing secret, sometimes toxic ingredients in pesticides. We can’t let this opportunity slip by.

Californians: Take Action to Stop Pesticide Secrets

Mar 30, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Food, Uncategorized

When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced last December that it wanted to consider greater disclosure of the so-called inert ingredients in pesticides, it may not have known how many people cared the issue. (“Inert” ingredients in pesticides are the...

Soup is Good Food

Mar 30, 2010Sean SullivanChildren's Health, Food, Uncategorized

Ali’s blog on seasonal food got me thinking. It also got me hungry. So I pulled out my seasonal food wheel and wondered what would I recommend to people in this time of root vegetables. Well before you cast them aside as spring comes and with it abundance in fresh,...

Greenwashing-Now with Plants!

Mar 23, 2010Sean SullivanFood, General Insights, Uncategorized

If you’re on Twitter or Facebook you probably saw the celebrations of World Water Day. If you watch television or happen by a billboard you’ll also learn that Dasani has come out with PlantBottle (oh & it’s trademarked, you know in case another water...

How Are You Enjoying the Best Week of the Year?

Mar 18, 2010Charlie PizarroChildren's Health, General Insights, Uncategorized

It’s springtime. The days are getting longer. Giants’ pitchers are gearing up to hang o-fers up and down the Dodgers’ overrated lineup. And better than all these indisputable truths is the fact that daylight saving time has begun. So, in search of tips to...

Your Captain Has Illuminated the “Profligate Waste” Sign – Please Throw Something Away

Mar 15, 2010Charlie PizarroGeneral Insights, Uncategorized

By the time the attendant came by to see to my in-flight comfort, I’d already completed an urgent cost-benefit analysis. If I really wanted my friends at SouthJetUniBlueWest Airlines to supply me with the three Jack Danielses that reliably equip me to spend time in a...

Tell Your Representatives to Retire Bad Actor Chemicals

Mar 5, 2010Center for Environmental HealthUncategorized

Tell your representatives to phase out the worst of the worst toxic chemicals. Please click here to learn more and to take action.

The Toxies – An Award Show for Bad Actor Chemicals

Mar 1, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, General Insights, Uncategorized

Everyone knows about the Oscars, but have you heard about The Toxies? This Wednesday, March 3 at 11 am, the first-ever red carpet awards ceremony for “Bad Actor” chemicals will take place at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Bad Actor chemicals include some of the...

Discarded but not Degraded: What Will the Aliens Think When They Find Our Plastic Crap?

Feb 24, 2010Charlie PizarroEnvironmental Justice, General Insights, Plastics, Uncategorized

Once-thriving ecosystems around the globe are now choking to death on our discarded plastic relics. It’s a problem that’s on the minds of Generation Green members, so we’ve begun to share a few tips to help you reduce the amount of plastic that the global polymer...

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...