Environment

We Know the Dirty Secrets and Now We Need Action

November 17, 2011




Today Women’s Voices for the Earth released a report called Dirty Secrets: What’s Hiding in Your Cleaning Products?  I wrote about the report over at Care2.com, but surprisingly (or not), I wasn’t very surprised by the dirty secrets in this report. There are chemicals in makeup and personal care products. There are chemicals in baby [...]

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Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes…

October 11, 2011




Last week my partner went out to our friend’s organic farm and picked tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. Big ones, small ones. Red ones, green ones, and orange ones. This weekend, I turned most of them from tomatoes into pasta sauce, with smaller amounts going toward ratatouille, salsa and fried green tomatoes. Some are cooked and [...]

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Disposable Diaper Sales are Down: What is the Real Reason?

October 8, 2011




The Wall Street Journal printed an article last week about how sales of disposable diapers are decreasing and sales of diaper rash ointment are increasing. The volume of diapers sold in the U.S. slipped 1% in the four weeks ended Sept. 4 from a year earlier, extending a string of similar or steeper declines stretching [...]

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Fuel for Human Bodies: Our Complex Relationship with Food

July 7, 2011




This is a post about families and food, poverty and privilege, accessibility and convenience, taste and nutrition,  consumerism and profit, affordability and sustainability. This is a post about our complex relationship with the way we fuel our bodies that cannot begin to do the topic justice. Healthy eating? Whose responsibility is it? You’ve heard it [...]

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From Farmers and Gardens to Plate

June 26, 2011




I have food on the mind lately. I’m trying to feed our family better and I’m also working on a post in my head as a follow up to the McDonald’s post. I want to talk about our food system, our relationship with it, how it impacts our lives, and what needs to change. But [...]

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Leftover Cereal Chocolate Chip Cookies

June 25, 2011




Recently on Care2, I wrote a post called Does Your Annual Food Waste Exceed Your Body Waste? It has some pretty scary statistics on the amount of food that we waste in the developing world. We always try to keep the amount of food that we waste to a minimum and I’m always frustrated when [...]

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“Moms Against Cooties” a.k.a the Chlorine Industry

June 10, 2011




Today I got a press release via e-mail from the public relations person responsible for the “Moms against Cooties” campaign. Basically, the idea behind this campaign is that they want you to disinfect, disinfect, and disinfect some more and don’t forget to tell your child’s daycare to disinfect and disinfect and disinfect some more. Since [...]

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Do you know what is in your meat?

May 24, 2011




I originally posted this article on Care2.com in February 2011. I am reposting it here as part of the Healthy Child, Healthy World initiative to educate parents about the over-use of antibiotics. Most of the antibiotics in the US are administered to animals living in concentrated, industrial feeding operations. This week, Healthy Child, Healthy World [...]

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Garden Advice: Shade Vegetables

February 5, 2011




This summer I’m planning to plant our first vegetable garden at this house. It is the first year in a long time when I won’t be spending a significant part of the planting or growing season out of the country and where I don’t have an infant to care for. I’m hoping to get the [...]

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My babies were healthy without Lysol

December 6, 2010




Today brings us yet another round of Think Before You Tweet.  Twitter Moms is hosting a Lysol Twitter Party with the theme of Healthy Babies.  It is scheduled to take place on twitter from 7:00pm to 8:00pm EST on Tuesday, December 7 using the hashtag #lysolmoms. There are already more than 100 people signed up [...]

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