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Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Think you know a lot about keeping your family safe from potentially dangerous chemicals in the foods and products in your home? Take our Healthy Child Healthy World Quiz and find out!
Get all the answers correct, and you’ll win twice: First, you'll receive $1.75 in Earthbound Farm coupons and their 2008 Pocket Guide to Choosing Organic and secondly, $1 for each quiz taken will come to us!
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Friday, May 09, 2008
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The Whole Children, Whole Planet Expo is the premier natural parenting and family expo to introduce and educate families, professionals and friends about the benefits of sustainable living practices, holistic medicine, non-toxic products, organic foods, better nutrition, enrichment learning programs; and important environmental issues for protecting our children and the planet.
On Sunday Healthy Child will be testing ONE toy or household item per person using a Thermo Scientific Niton XL3t 700 series XRF analyzer. The portable x-ray fluorescence analyzer is used by the EPA, the CPSC, and other regulatory agencies to screen toys and household goods for lead, cadmium, chromium and other elements. It provides a fast, non-destructive analysis in the parts per million range for lead, cadmium, chromium and other elements in virtually any substrate.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Posted by Jennifer Taggart
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Environment California has documented high levels of formaldehyde emissions from baby furniture commonly found in the nursery. Environment California’s report shows that cribs and changing tables can emit high levels of formaldehyde. When these sources are added to other sources likely to be found in the home, the levels may exceed those shown to have adverse health effects on children.
Formaldehyde in cribs and changing tables shouldn’t be a surprise. It is common for composite wood products – like particle board and medium density fiberboard (MDF) – are held together with formaldehyde based resins. Unfortunately, the formaldehyde escapes from these products, polluting indoor air. And formaldehyde can be released for many years. But, you might not have thought that a crib or changing table could contribute significantly to formaldehyde emissions in the home. Unfortunately, Environment California’s testing shows that cribs and changing tables can be significant sources. And when you consider that your baby spends a lot of time in that nursery, you might want to look for alternatives. A bit of good news? The California Air Resources Board has enacted a regulation that will start to limit formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products beginning in 2009.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Posted by Tasneem Motala
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Great news – out of several thousand entrants, Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, and Safer Home by Christopher Gavigan has been selected as a winner for the iParenting Media Award for the 2008 Excellent Products Call!
“We are really excited and grateful to be recognized with this special award from iParenting. As we have been witnessing, parents acknowledge the high value, peace of mind, and sense of empowerment from Healthy Child Healthy World. This award further establishes the importance of every parent’s need to have and use this book,” said Christopher Gavigan, author of the book and Executive Director of Healthy Child.
iParenting uses a panel of three independent reviewers consisting of a parent, an expert, and a childcare facility. After reading the book they filled out extensive surveys on their thoughts. Through the rigorous review process, they unanimously chose Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, and Safer Home for the award. Check out some of the great feedback on the book:
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Lansinoh, a manufacturer of electric and manual breast pumps and pure lanolin nipple cream, and Boon, the young design house behind a stylish young line of baby feeding products, might seem like very different companies, and in many ways they are. But thanks to increasing consumer awareness about the potential dangers of bisphenol-A, they have found themselves coming perilously close to a common fate.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
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Please help us get toxics out of baby bottles. Sign the Petition To Get BPA Out of Children's Products Now!
The evidence is mounting. After years of concern about the safety of baby bottles, children’s care products, and other food and beverage containers that contain the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), the verdict is in--and it’s not good.
Yesterday the Canadian government announced it is planning to ban the use of BPA in baby bottles, and declared BPA dangerous.[1] And, earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. based National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded that there is "some concern" that babies, fetuses, and children are in danger because BPA harms animals at the low levels found in nearly all human bodies.[2] Sadly, a recent study found this chemical in all five leading brands of American baby bottles.
It's enough to sink any mother's stomach.
Let's take a second to take a collective deep breath, and then mobilize for major action. Sign a petition calling for the CEOs of the leading manufacturers of baby bottles to stop the use of BPA in our baby bottles and other children’s products.
TAKE ACTION:
Sign the Petition Now!
Sign on now and we’ll send the petition to the CEOs of Avent, Disney/First Years, Dr. Brown’s, Evenflo, Gerber, and Playtex in collaboration with Center for Health, Environment, & Justice and other organizations.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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"5 Easy Ways to Go Organic", based on an interview with our very own Dr. Alan Greene, should be nicknamed "The Little Blog that Could". This piece got a lot of attention when it was originally published in October. It was the most popular article in all of the New York Times website many days during the following 30-day period. And it's still getting attention. Just yesterday it was once again on the most popular list in the Health category -- after 6 months! The way the Times works, the more popular something is, the more headlines they give it on the site, the more popular it becomes, and on and on. So, help get the organic message out -- go to this article, hit email at the bottom of the post, and send it to everyone you know who cares about organics. While you're there, post a comment to keep the conversation alive!
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Maple Grace will donate fifty percent of all profits to us from every butterfly onesie and swaddle blanket sold!
The butterfly onesie was designed through a collaboration of
Maple Grace, Healthy Child Healthy World and Joan Maloney, President of
Studio 318. Both the onesie and swaddle blankets are made of 100% organic cotton. The onesie features eco-friendly, non-toxic silk screening and the swaddle blankets are colored with low impact dyes free of PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride) and heavy metals.
An automatic subscription to the Healthy Child Times, the Healthy Child Healthy World online newsletter with useful information to help people make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments, will be included with each purchase.
Click here to see these items. Thank you for your support!
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Posted by Christopher Gavigan
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Source: EWG
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a plastics chemical invented nearly 120 years ago and currently used in enormous amounts to manufacture hard plastic water bottles and to make epoxy linings of metal food cans, like those for canned infant formula.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Posted by Mandy Geisler
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Reaching beyond the screen with a hip animated story featuring a wise green gorilla and four kids who turn visions into reality.
Last Tuesday, right on time for Earth Day 2008, SustainLane launched the pilot episode of “Gorilla in the Greenhouse,” an action-packed, web-based, animated show that inspires kids to take real-world steps towards a healthier planet. The show is set in a magical greenhouse in San Francisco and features a visionary green gorilla and four kids who use their imagination, their network and their music to tackle the environmental challenges facing their generation.
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