Environmental Health

May 16, 2012

Part of my job at Pesticide Action Network is keeping track of the latest research about how pesticides are harming children’s health . This has kept me too busy of late, as studies seem to be coming fast and furious linking pesticides with childhood asthma, autism , birth defects, cancer and more...

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health Health Care

May 16, 2012

Like many women of her generation, Sue was careful to get prenatal care and watch her weight gain as her doctor advised. In the early 1960s there were no warnings to avoid smoking or alcohol during pregnancy and no information about the potential hazards of environmental chemicals, either for Sue’s...

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Mary Pittman

Environmental Health

May 15, 2012

Warmer days mean more sunscreen applications, different makeup routines, and more showers to make up for chlorine soaked hair or sweaty days outdoors. Make your summer a little safer! Use these five safer summer beauty tips as you update your beauty routines for the season. Convenience is not...

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Claire Moshenberg

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Health Care

May 11, 2012

Meet Annie Spiegelman, a Bay Area mom who blogs as " The Dirt Diva " on matters of love, gardening, and cultivating a healthy planet. Just in time for Mother's Day, Annie shares her interview with Rachel's Network Co-Director Laurie Syms on the evidence that women in Congress, regardless of party,...

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Miriam Feffer

Paid Family Leave Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Health Care

May 11, 2012

TIME Magazine just became another self-appointed arbiter of “Mommy Judgment” by trying to inflame the Mommy Wars with their exploitative cover of a young mother standing like a mudflap girl and breastfeeding her 3, maybe 4 year old. The byline: “Are you Mom enough?” The answer is, as soon as you...

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Genevieve Colvin

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days

May 10, 2012

This Mother's Day we're celebrating the fact that moms are now networked and engaged in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. More than 36 million women are now active in the blogosphere, either publishing or reading blogs. And, by the end of this year, more than 90 percent of moms with kids under...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

May 10, 2012

Do your kids argue? Or did they when they were younger? Here's a hilarious Mother's Day fantasy just for you! Happy nearly Mother's Day!!! - Kristin, Joan, Monifa, Elisa, Ashley, Nanette, Sarah, Julie, Sarah, Anita, Ruth, Claire, Donna, Mary, and Gloria

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Health Care

May 9, 2012

Happy (almost) Mother's Day! Celebrate the moms in your life with nontoxic gifts and treats. With these easy tips, you can take toxic chemicals out of your Mother's Day breakfast, create your own luxurious beauty gifts for mom, and wrap up your Mother's Day presents in environmentally friendly,...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care

May 8, 2012

Sometimes nothing in the world can be so refreshing as taking a long drink straight from the hose after mowing the grass or working in the garden. And who doesn’t remember splashing through the spray from the sprinkler? But those simple pleasures might not be so simple or safe, thanks to the lead...

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Rebecca Meuninck

Environmental Health

May 3, 2012

In recent years, the incidence of hypospadias, a congenital malformation of the penis, has doubled . Leading health experts blame this surge on a family of toxic chemicals called endocrine disruptors, which attack the hormone system. o Photo by Flickr user F-oxymoron Nicholas Kristof , a columnist...

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