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The latest news, food for thought, recipes you’ll love, great advice on everything from raising kids to nurturing bees, plus videos designed to entertain, educate and enlighten. If you’d like to find out what’s on our mind – or let us know what’s on yours -- this is place to be.

03
Oct 2012

Baby Laundry in 4 Steps

Author: RealMomofNJ
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Baby laundry. It's not that hard to do.  It's just that the volume and frequency at which you do it makes it seem overwhelming. The tiny clothes are so cute, but a full load of baby wash seems to have about 1000x the number of articles as an adult load. And thanks to spit-up, baby food, and other bodily fluids, it feels like there are million times more stains.

So, to make the baby laundry easier for myself, I follow 4 steps:

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03
Oct 2012

Creating Sustainable Products from Plants

Author: scienceman
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Seventh Generation is working to create more and more products that are sustainable, so it makes sense for consumers to stop and ask, "What do you mean by a sustainable product?" and, "Is it possible to produce products from plants in a sustainable way?"

According to the World Commission on Environment and Development, a sustainable product is one that meets the needs and aspirations of one generation without affecting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and aspirations.

 

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01
Oct 2012

What the X?!

Author: greenwrite
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2X, 3X, 4X… what's with all the Xs in the laundry aisle? Are they something you should get eXcited about? That depends on how eXhausted you get lugging home those big jugs of laundry detergent. And how frustrated you get when you realize a lot of what you're paying for is water.
 

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01
Oct 2012

The Great Organic Panic That Isn't

Author: the Inkslinger
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Say it ain't so! A new study being reported just about everywhere finds (gasp!) that organic foods (no!) are no more nutritious (horror!) than conventional foods (shock!). Media alarms are blaring. Big Agriculture is crowing. Consumers are confused, and just about everyone appears to have forgotten the most important thing of all.
 

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28
Sep 2012

The Last Ride of White Rhino

Author: the Inkslinger
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The view out my window seems a little darker this morning, and it's not just dismal clouds crowding out the sun in a grey swollen sky or the rain they're so very close to bringing. There is a quite a bit less light in the world today, for I learned last evening that Malcolm McGregor Barnum, Jr., a man that many of us here loved, is gone.
 
Gregor, as he was forever known, was Seventh Generation's first Director of Corporate Consciousness, but that tells us next to nothing about what we and the world have lost.
 

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27
Sep 2012

Foods We Love: Macadamia Nuts

Author: LisaFerber
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The macadamia nut has been around for thousands of years. It was enjoyed by the aborigines of eastern Australia before European settlement, and King Jacky of the Logan River Clan and his tribe traded and collected them during the 1860s. The aborigines would also express the oil from the nuts and use it to bind with clays and ochres for body painting, as well as for skin moisturizing.

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25
Sep 2012

How to Engage Your Family in a Greener, More Efficient Household

Author: Gill Deacon
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After having many conversations with my own children about the environment and what it means to do our part, I recognized that a big part of teaching stewardship is ingraining responsibility into the fabric of your household. Think back to your own childhood and the habits your parents may have taught or passed down to you. Whether it's how to do your laundry, or what kind of brands you stock your cupboards with, you carry on their behaviours simply because it's what you've always known.
 

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24
Sep 2012

The Dirt on EWG's New Cleaner Database

Author: Consumer Insigh...
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The good people at the Environmental Working Group have been kindred spirits in the effort to get companies to clean up their act. Like us, they believe too many products hide their ingredients and that consumers have a right to know what's inside of them. That's where their amazing guides come in. And now they've got one for cleaners.
 
You can just imagine the interoffice anticipation when we logged in to calculate our own final grade and found we got (drum roll, please) a C+!
 
Wait… what?
 

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24
Sep 2012

Are Your School's Lunches Hungry For Real Food?

Author: the Inkslinger
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Don't ask my wife about the lunches at the school in which she works. She'll wax indignant for hours about the day they served spaghetti, tater tots, corn, and a sticky bun—a nutritionally barren carb-fest so intense she swears she got diabetes just from reading the menu. So what do we do when our cafeterias put junk on every tray?

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19
Sep 2012

Take a Second Look at Second-Hand Baby Gear

Author: greenwrite
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Keeping baby safe is a year-round responsibility, but each September the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) gives it extra attention by celebrating Baby Safety Month. This year, JPMA is helping educate parents and caregivers on the importance of choosing second-hand, hand-me-down, and heirloom baby gear with safety in mind.
 
Giving previously used gear a second life is a good alternative to buying new for a lot of reasons. But it's important to follow a few basic rules so you're sure not to compromise safety for price or nostalgia.

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