When I found out I was pregnant I was absolutely overcome with joy. My husband and I had spent two long years and suffered a devastating loss in our effort to become parents. So when I saw the blue "+" sign, I was beside myself. I couldn't wait to say the words out loud. During the months that followed, I even told strangers on the street: "I'm going to be a Mom!"

As part of our annual giving program, Seventh Generation is working this Valentine's Day with SHE, a non-profit organization that helps women in developing countries start their own businesses manufacturing affordable sanitary pads. In many of the countries where SHE operates, women and girls lose up to 50 days of work or school a year because they don't have access to sanitary pads.

Lately, my hostess gift of choice has been a big, recycled tote filled with natural cleaning products. It definitely stands out on front hallway tables, a giant proclaiming its presence among all the festively-wrapped bottles of wine and boxes of candy.

Our good friends at WAGES (Women's Action to Gain Economic Security) have put together a short (we promise!) quiz on green cleaning. Test your green cleaning street cred here. The folks at WAGES know green cleaning. The group sets up cooperatively-owned residential cleaning businesses that use all natural, non-toxic cleaning products.

Housecleaning is a chore few of us look forward to, and my feeling is I should get more out of it than a clean living space. I should get...exercise.

Seventh Generation recently launched its first TV commercial. It says: We're Seventh Generation and we want to talk to you about a revolution. People everywhere are saying "no" to hazardous chemicals and "yes" to a safe and naturally effective way to clean, Where the five-second rule is extended,

Seventh Generation Nation member accidentallyonpurpose writes about the process of bringing up her family green. When my girls were toddlers, the floors in my house were clean -- kinda. I mean you occasionally got the crunchy sensation of a piece of oat cereal beneath your feet. But so what, right? I didn't obsess over it.

So you've watched Seventh Generation's new television commercial, and have decided to replace all the toxic chemical cleaning products under your sink with natural versions. Getting rid of the old stuff is pretty easy. All you need is a big box or bag and a means of transportation.

While we wait for introduction of federal legislation to reform the country's law regulating toxic chemicals (still expected very soon), a number of states have been taking action to protect children and others from exposure to harmful substances in products.

More than two dozen Seventh Generation staffers recently spent a day at the Vermont Foodbank, an agency that connects 66,000 people to the charitable food system.