Environmental Health

May 2, 2012

On April 20, the Gulf Coast remembered the day two years ago that changed our lives. The BP Oil Disaster may no longer be headline news but it's not over for the thousands of Americans who have lost their livelihoods, suffered health consequences, and greatly fear the decades long fight ahead. In...

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Renee Blanchard

Environmental Health

May 2, 2012

With summer around the corner, now is the perfect time to start working on a garden! Don't worry, this doesn't have to be a huge project. Start small with some simple outdoor or indoor gardening (or both!). Get started with a few indoor plants (or even just one! Even one indoor plant can improve...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health

April 27, 2012

If we set our minds to it, we can turn back the rising tide of autism. But it will take the courage to embrace the following common-sense goal, in both policy and practice: Expecting parents and young children should not take in chemical contaminants that are known to harm developing minds. This...

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health

April 26, 2012

The media is all abuzz with contradictory rumors and statements after a case of mad-cow disease (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE ) was found this week in California. The beef industry assures there's nothing to worry about. Understandably, consumers are confused. Here is the first thing to...

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Laetitia Mailhes

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health

April 26, 2012

We did it! We let Procter & Gamble know that their continued support of ALEC was unacceptable. And they dropped ALEC. As the main lobbyist source of the "kill at will" gun law that murdered Trayvon Martin, and proponent of voter ID laws that would disproportionately suppress women's voting...

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Cynthia Liu

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

April 25, 2012

by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving more than 200...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health

April 24, 2012

Last week was a busy one for Sofía Gatica. On Monday, she won the global Goldman Environmental Prize for her efforts to protect her children and neighbors from pesticides. On Wednesday, she asked President Obama to investigate Monsanto’s “pesticide poisonings and livelihood harms” in her community...

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Kristin Schafer

Environmental Health Food!

April 23, 2012

Earth Day is a great opportunity to remember and reflect, if only for a moment, on the symbiotic relationship between our planet and its inhabitants. Now, what if we could be present to it every day, and taste daily the beautiful richness it gives our lives? Eating presents us and our families with...

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Laetitia Mailhes

Environmental Health

April 18, 2012

The just-released data on autism shows a count of one in 88 children, up from a rate of one in 100 three years ago, and one in 150 five years ago. With each change, the response remains the same: Oh that’s because of better detection and broader definitions. How, then, to account for the sharp...

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Alice Shabecoff

Environmental Health

April 16, 2012

by Judy Molland Britain’s National Trust, an organization that preserves outdoor spaces as well as historic buildings in the UK, earlier this year announced a campaign to improve people’s links with nature and wildlife. Photo by Design by Nicola The Trust’s director general Fiona Reynolds said that...

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