Eco-Conscious Consumers Look to Separate Fact from Fiction As Earth Day Approaches

To help consumers further separate fact from fiction this Earth Day, Cotton Incorporated has created an interactive quiz, “Do You Know Green?” on its two popular websites, www.MysteryFabric.com and www.TheFabricOfOurLives.com. There aren't too many questions annoyingly … [Read more...]

Home Birth Is So Normal, It's Used to Sell Mattresses…

... at least in Spain: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/iZy_wcZBkgw&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] This great video has been circulating around the birth-activist regions of the blogosphere recently, since it first aired a few days ago. It's a television commercial for a … [Read more...]

Rainwater

Two things my girls have enjoyed doing this Spring: playing in the rain and helping me start the garden. The perfect activity for combining these twoo things is collecting rainwater! With how dry it can be here in Utah we need to save all the water we can. Rainwater can reduce … [Read more...]

Autism Rates Significantly Higher Near Toxic Waste Sites

In the quest to learn why autism rates in this country are rising dramatically, we have to look at the environmental health of our communties and chemical load that is being placed on our children. I recently wrote over at Non-Toxic Kids about the new link between PVC flooring … [Read more...]

Get Up, Stand Up: Stand Up for Your Birth

Women in labor can shorten the first stage by about an hour by walking, kneeling, standing, or otherwise avoiding lying in bed, according to a review of 21 birth studies covering over 3700 births. "This shortens labor by about an hour and, for a lot of women, an hour would be … [Read more...]