Our nation’s schools are in trouble – and this time, it’s not the test scores. No, this time it is the toxic chemicals lurking in schools that leave children too sick to learn. Many schools around the country are literally made out of an emerging toxic plastic of concern , polyvinyl chloride (a.k.a...

Fall is my favorite time of year. It brings back some of my best childhood memories: playing in a big pile of crunchy red and yellow leaves, feeling the crisp air on my skin on nature walks as butterflies led the way, the first smell of my carved pumpkin. I am greatly indebted to my parents, who...

If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s supposed to be a duck. But what if that duck contained genes injected from two other species of duck to make it grow faster than normal ducks? Is it still a duck to you, or is this getting more complicated than it should? The FDA...

I recently got an email from a blog reader who said she had been obsessively reading and re-reading my first post , and all the comments that followed it. After years of managing what sounds like a challenging career and raising young children, she said she feared she was on the verge of a nervous...