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Wed, Mar. 30, 2011
Family Life, Pregnancy and Parenting
Posted by sheila.B

Food Packaging and BPA

Here's a new study on bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging from our friends at the Breast Cancer Fund, who worked with Silent Spring Institute on this groundbreaking study just published in Environmental Health Perspectives: The study looked at what happened to BPA levels in people when certain...
Thu, Mar. 17, 2011
Family Life, Pregnancy and Parenting
Posted by sheila.B

Women as Agents for Social Change

Women are the largest group of consumers, and can effect change through our purchasing habits. When we buy laundry detergent made without optical brighteners, or tampons made with 100% organic cotton, we are demanding change. So is Women's Voices for the Earth, a group that is working to remove...
Wed, Mar. 16, 2011
Green Cleaning, Pregnancy and Parenting
Posted by the Inkslinger
1 Comments

Cleaning Needn't Be a Royal Pain

Congratulations, dear Kate! You're about to marry that handsome Prince William bloke and become an honest-to-goodness princess. That's jolly good, but I should warn you that becoming royalty has a serious downside. Instead of a tidy London flat, you and the groom will soon have an entire castle to...
Thu, Feb. 17, 2011
Pregnancy and Parenting, Sustainability
Posted by Walla
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Inventing a Teenager's Memory Quilt

A few weeks ago my nephew came down to breakfast wearing a shirt that looked like it belonged to his little brother. Short at the cuffs, tight around the neck, no big deal, right? Except my nephew doesn't have a little brother and the shirt was one I had purchased for him -- in the right size --...
Thu, Feb. 03, 2011
Pregnancy and Parenting
Posted by the Inkslinger
9 Comments

Dialing for Diapers

These days, too many of our friends and neighbors have too little. This is especially true where struggling families are concerned. It costs about $11,000 a year to raise a child, but one in four families earn less than that. So we came up with a quick and simple way for all of us to help these...