Population growth is a huge strain on the environment. Reducing family size is vital to saving the Earth, no matter how much the notion upsets some folks. Feeding the world's 7,013,987,392 people is a challenge and often cited as to why organic food is not as green as consumers … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2012
Natural Home: Use Tiny Minerals to Soften Clothes
I have never been one to use a fabric softener, but then again, I commit the laundry green sin of using my dryer because I am lazy and don't like stiff crunchy clothes. It's not every load that I use the dryer for, but maybe if I used fabric softener, the air dried clothes would … [Read more...]
TIME Raises A Ruckus & Safer Cosmetics Makes History
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org TIME raised a ruckus recently with a profile of “attachment parenting” guru Dr. Bill Sears, highlighted by a cover photo of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son, … [Read more...]
Canadian Playgrounds and Schools Bring Back Risk of Nature
When I was a preschool teacher, we wanted to improve our school play yard to be more developmentally appropriate and natural. The only equipment that was allowed to be purchased and installed had to first be approved by the school's insurance company and installed by a million … [Read more...]
Mothers Against Fracking
Fracking sounds like such a dirty word, and it is. I don't want my kids using it. Even though it is not a curse word, it is one of the dirtiest words I know literally! What is fracking? It's not the latest teenage slang word; it describes a mining process that is polluting … [Read more...]