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Three Days to a Brand-New BPA-Free You
When I was in junior high school, I distinctly and embarrassingly recall being a little obsessed with a certain cheesy teen novella called “8 Days to a Brand-New You” — a romantic and moving make-over...
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California Governor Brown Orders State to Change Flame Retardant Rule
Breaking news! And great news! An obscure law in California is the only reason that there are harmful chemical flame retardants in furniture, and as of today, they will start a process to change that...
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Toddler Nutrition: Feeding Your Child for Optimum Health
The hardest thing about nutrition is to actually do what you know you should do. We all know that a diet of whole, unprocessed foods is best, and that in order to avoid sugar, excess salt and nasty...
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Must Read: Today’s Great New York Times Story on Toxic Sofas
Red sofa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’ve been under the weather with viral bronchitis all week, but was cheered to see this long and wonderful article today in the New York Times featuring a personal...
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All Frothy Over Flame-Retardants in Foam
I’ve been cornered. Insert loud howling sound here. Allen Ginsberg, bless his brilliant soul, didn’t even BEGIN to know what a teed off work-from-home mom sounds like when she can’t get a simple answer...
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New Study Released Today Confirms: 85 Percent of Couches Contain Toxic Chemicals
A new study in the peer-reviewed journal, Environment Science and Technology, was just published today by Heather Stapleton. Its results confirm what she has been saying about the ubiquity and harm...
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Good Parenting for the Chemical Industry
This is cross-posted from the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families blog here. Much thanks to the wonderful folks there for publishing it! Here’s a basic truth every Mom knows: it’s far easier to avoid...
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Are You a Modern Canary?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is cross-posted from Dr. Claudia Miller’s excellent blog, here, where she writes about her fascinating work on intolerance to chemicals and their impact on health. Thanks...
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Have Yourself a Merry (and Non-Toxic!) Christmas
Just like the folks at Fox News say, at my house every year there is a War on Christmas. A War on Christmas hazards, that is. I actually get all ooey gooey over Christmas. I love bedecking the mantel...
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Must Read: Flame Retardant Chemicals in my Gatorade??
Gatorade Vending Machine (Photo credit: revtango) The New York Times ran a great piece today detailing one 15-year-old’s battle to remove brominated vegetable oil — “BVO” — from soft drinks in the U.S....
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A Bodacious Valentine’s Day
(Photo credit: EraPhernalia Vintage) Yesterday, in honor of V-day, I had the pleasure of attending a ground-breaking panel on boobies. Because this is 2013, when the subject of breasts arises, so to...
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And now, for some things YOU can do on flame retardants…
(Photo credit: treehouse1977) I’ve been busy getting used to working again, getting Maya transitioned to the new schedule, working on my nascent book proposal, and hatching plans for a new on-line...
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The Trouble with Toxics: What Dateline Missed and Why
Small Zombies in the Winter of Our Discontent (Photo credit: Wikipedia) NBC’s Dateline just this week ran a well-executed two-part series on toxic chemicals that included body burden testing of one of...
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Asking Safeway: Who Will Mind the Store?
Yesterday, I gladly joined the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families campaign to ask retailers to do a far better job of screening their products for hazardous chemicals. The group has developed a list of...
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A Conversation that Could Change the World
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) When we buy stuff for our homes — like food or personal care products — many of us, including my own family, try to do the best we can for the planet and our own health....
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The Hollowing, and an Information Democracy
“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow…” – The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot “A world of made is not a world of born…” – pity this busy monster, manunkind, e.e....
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Hot Reads: CA Takes Back Its Dumb Rule, Chemical Reform Under Contemplation,...
(Photo credit: stevendepolo) Kick up your feet: this couch won’t bite! Fantastic news from California! It looks like beginning this winter, furniture makers will be able to jettison toxic flame...
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Everything But the Kitchen Sink: 5 Simple Steps to Greener Food Storage and Prep
I’ll concede off the top that it takes a, well, special level of pickiness to go through your own kitchen cupboards with a gimlet eye, wondering which of the assorted containers, cookery, food...
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Safer Cosmetics and Personal Care Products: Avoiding the Dreaded “Icky 11″
If you’re on a search and destroy mission for toxins in your home (and you are — right, friend?), a pretty good place to start is the bathroom. Personal care products are rife with nasty and suspect...
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