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Are Your School's Lunches Hungry For Real Food?

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...

Take a Second Look at Second-Hand Baby Gear

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,...

Does Your School Pass the Non-Toxic Test?

Back-to-school season brings more than an unsettling midday quiet in the house. It also prompts a question: If we care so much about what's in our food, our products, our air, and our water, why don't we ever wonder about what's in our schools? We should, because from September to June...

Get the Scoop on TSCA

Last week, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works stood up for protecting public health and making chemicals kid-safe by passing the Safe Chemicals Act out of committee -- an important first step in fixing our nation's broken chemical policy. The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 would...

Diapering Confession

Even before having children, I loved the idea of cloth diapering. Particularly the whole not-adding-more-trash-and-chemicals-to-landfills idea. I vowed to use cloth diapers for my future children to help the planet by not generating unnecessary garbage. When the time eventually came and I was...