Environmental Health

January 12, 2012

One easy way to reduce toxic chemicals in your home is to take a room by room survey. What products do you use in each room? Photo credit: Flickr User Boris Mitendorfer Photography What items may need to be replaced soon? Where do you have the most product turn-around? A good place to start is the...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

January 11, 2012

This post originally appeared on Sightline Institute's blog. I recall vividly how embarrassed I felt the first time I waited for the bus with my baby boy---he bundled up in his stroller and me expecting the bus driver to welcome me aboard, lowering the wheelchair lift so we could roll on in style...

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Alyse Nelson

Environmental Health Health Care

January 11, 2012

What would you say if I told you that a high number of baby products contain toxic chemicals? What if I told you those toxic chemicals were in the form of flame retardants that are used in things like nursing pillows, car seats, changing pads and bassinet pads? And what if I said there is currently...

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Michelle Noehren

Environmental Health

January 10, 2012

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Is there a link between the environment and illnesses such as pediatric cancer, asthma, allergies and behavioral problems? According to the s cientists and doctors who advise Healthy Child Healthy...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

January 5, 2012

If there was a Hall of Fame for road trip games, Mad Libs would be number one. A word nerd from the get-go, I loved these books of swiss-cheesed sentences, blank spaces waiting to be filled with the comedic stylings of my easily amused backseat gang (“The Hippo ate a copy machine and walked into a...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

January 3, 2012

Happy new year! How are your new years resolutions going? Last week, we talked about a few ideas for non-toxic New Years resolutions . If you're trying one of these resolutions, testing a non-toxic resolution of your own, or just recommitting yourself to detoxing your life in the new year, these...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

December 28, 2011

It can feel like a toxic world out there, but MomsRising is here to help. Every Tuesday on the MomsRising blog , you can find new information on how to eliminate dangerous chemicals and toxins that are in every day products. Topics have ranged from choosing sunscreen and beauty products, to making...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

December 27, 2011

Go to the gym. Get organized. Start a new hobby. There's a list of three common new years resolutions, which doubles as a list of resolutions I've made and haven't kept a hundred times over. But my non-toxic resolutions? Those I've kept, because I've made them easy and concrete. Two years ago, I...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

December 24, 2011

I’ve always had what seemed to me to be a healthy mistrust of the outside world. I grew up in New York City in the 1970’s, an era often thought of as “Woody Allen’s New York”, where neurosis reigned supreme and everything was the color brown. Through therapy, philosophy studies and meditation, I’ve...

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Ali Smith

Environmental Health

December 22, 2011

Last week we hosted an event to test toys and holiday gifts for toxic chemicals. We do these events across Michigan and inevitably find some nasty chemical in one or more toys. At this particular event a mother of two came in carrying a large bag of her four-year-old son’s treasured items. She came...

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