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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...

Toxic Chemical Lobby: Exclusive Leaked Footage

Jul 7, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

Today, our friends at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families released their funny, animated video to garner public support for Congressional Action on the Toxic Substances Control Act. Though getting nasty, hazardous chemicals out of consumer products is a serious issue,...

Hospitals Taking on Factory Animal Farms and the Meat-Protein Myth

Jul 1, 2010Charles MargulisFood

Last week, an NPR story highlighted menu changes at Bay Area hospitals that have the meat industry steaming. For decades nutritionists have warned about meaty diets high in saturated fats. More recently, medical experts have warned that the meat industry’s practices...

Are Californians Dumber than Folks in Connecticut?

Jun 30, 2010Ryan BerghoffChildren's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations

We don’t think so. But the chemical industry does. In Connecticut, industry lobbyists thought that they could use fear tactics against a proposed state ban on the toxic plastic ingredient Bisphenol-A (BPA). But fear mongering lost, and the state adopted a ban,...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Fourth of July Celebrations

Jun 30, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

In honor of summer’s biggest holiday, let’s all make some Independence Day declarations to help protect our health and the environment we share. Small lifestyle changes (like living less wastefully and avoiding toxic chemicals in everyday consumer...

The World of Green Chemistry

Jun 29, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, General Insights, Laws & Regulations

“Today nearly everything we touch—clothing, furniture, carpeting, cabinets, light bulbs, paper, toothpaste, baby teethers, iPhones, you name it—is synthetic,” Emily Laber-Warren states in her Scientific American article, “Green Chemistry: Scientists Devise New...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Yellow Jackets and Ants, Oh My!

Jun 24, 2010Caroline CoxFood, Tips

Summer is here, and with it comes many of our favorite warm weather outdoor activities. But those activities can be interrupted by the summer insects that come out in hot weather. Yellow jackets swarm around the burgers, grilled salmon or lemonade at our weekend...

California’s Strawberry Field Poison Gets National Attention

Jun 21, 2010Caroline CoxEnvironmental Justice, Food

You may have heard “methyl iodide” in the news over the weekend. It’s the name of the newest frighteningly toxic chemical — one that causes cancer and miscarriages — that California regulators are on the verge of approving for use on...

Oil Cleanup? Dispersing the Myths

Jun 21, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Energy, General Insights, Uncategorized

There has been much recent attention to BP’s use of so-called dispersants in the Gulf oil disaster. Dispersants are chemicals intended to break up the spilled oil, presumably to speed degradation and thus lessen some of the havoc the oil would otherwise wreak. But...

Eco-Tip of the Week: Father’s Day Activities

Jun 16, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

When it comes to the holidays, it’s common to see a whole slew of “green” gift guides in every environmentally conscious media source. These guides often consist of so-called “environmentally-friendly” products, brands, and stores. But, as so many instances of...