by Farron Cousins Originally posted on Desmogblog.com Bisphenol A, or BPA for short, has been in the spotlight for decades, with both the chemical industry and occasionally the federal government touting its safety, while independent, non-industry funded scientific studies show … [Read more...]
5 Reasons You Should Hang Your Laundry Outside
We all have our eco sins, no matter how green we live our lives. There's always just one more step we can take to be greener. For years, my eco sin was remembering my reusable shopping bags. I have that one down now! For almost a decade, I had to hang my laundry outside out of … [Read more...]
Autism and Chemicals, Cancer Report Under Fire, and Kudos!
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & C.E.O Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Potential Autism Causes Identified What causes autism? Dr. Phil Landrigan, professor and chair of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York and … [Read more...]
Earth Week is for Mothers
by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a … [Read more...]
April is Autism Month; New Studies Look for Causes
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director and CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org On the heels of last week’s CDC report that found higher rates of autism than ever before—now affecting 1 in 88 children and representing a 78% increase in the last 10 … [Read more...]