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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...

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...

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...

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...

Got an Extra Leg to Stand On? Shameless Polluter Needs to Borrow It

Feb 22, 2010Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice

The entire Ecuadorian Amazon was once a thriving ecosystem and home to thousands of species (including one called homo sapiens). But Chevron-Texaco’s operations have turned this living treasure into a polluted monument to greed and shortsightedness. If you haven’t...

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...