7gen Bloc

One day recently, the girls and I were taking the baby on a stroll, fielding compliments from passersby. We met a kindly older woman who wanted to get a closer look at the baby. My youngest daughter began her show-and-tell demo: "Watch this. He can follow my finger with his eyes," six-year-old Trinity offered. "I can make him smile a real smile, not a gassy one."

(Note: this is my fourth post about the pollution that living in the modern world has left inside my own body.

At Seventh Generation, we've always helped you protect planet home by formulating products that are safe for you and the environment, and by fully disclosing ingredients on our labels. But dangerous chemicals still lurk in our homes, in many of the products we use every day. It's time for common sense limits on toxic chemicals.

One of my fondest grade-school memories involves a sweet potato, toothpicks, and a glass of water. There was something magical about watching as a tangle of roots first appeared in the water, followed by leafy tendrils that spilled over the glass and then extended wildly across the kitchen windowsill.

Seventh Generation's approach to sustainability runs throughout our supply chain, from the bottles we use to our manufacturing partners, to the source of our ingredients. A key focus of our sustainability work this year involves one of those ingredients, palm kernel oil.

Here's a data feed that will restore some confidence in the federal government's ability to do the right thing about the chemicals in consumer products: These days the pace of chemical regulation reform is breaking the sound barrier.

I'm catching up on my in-box, and here's one of the first things I found: an investigation by the New York Times, that says the nation's fresh water supplies are drowning in woes. The newspaper reviewed zillions of water pollution records from all over the place and uncovered an ocean of trouble that even I (who's just about seen it all) can't quite believe.

I was among the very few male audience members at A Critical Link: The Environment and Women's Health, a conference presented by Planned Parenthood of Northern

I was in our local hardware store the other day when I stumbled across an amazing deal: Compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs for just a dollar and change. It was a bit of a revelation to see this once insanely priced technology going for less than the cost of a cup of coffee.

On a crisp, clear spring morning not long ago, I was finally able to wrap my arms around the fact that at 40-plus I was going to have a third child. The reality kicked in somewhere between the time I dragged my labor-wracked body out of a still-running car and into the hospital and when I finally made it to the delivery room.