In honor of Thanksgiving I am about to close up my lap top for a few days to spend some uninterrupted time with friends and family. I hope many of you get the chance to do the same over this long weekend. Before signing off I wanted to share with you a few groovy green…
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Groovy Green Friday Follow- Up
This week was a busy one with lots of groovy green tidbits to share. Advocacy We can make a difference. Healthy Child Healthy World shared a post entitled Rock the Cradle Rule the World. In the post Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, executive director and CEO of HCHW, emphasized the strong and powerful voices bloggers have and…
BPA Strikes Again and This Time at Kids
BPA just won’t go away. It has been found on everything from receipts to dollar bills. In a new report by the Breast Cancer Fund dangerous levels of the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) were found in a wide variety of canned foods specifically marketed towards kids. Some of the highest levels were found in Campbell’s…
A Mother’s Day Gift to My Boys
Each Mother’s Day I celebrate my three boys, since without them I couldn’t wear my treasured “mother” hat. Creating our family didn’t come easily. We were forced, as many are, to place a tremendous amount of thought into whether or not we wanted to bring children into this world. Infertility will do that to you. …
10 ways to green your Meatless Monday
“Where’s the beef?” Welcome to Meatless Monday. Meatless Monday is a movement encouraging people to improve their health and improve the health of the planet by lowering their meat consumption. My Meatless Monday adventure began last week (impressive, I know) and it went quite well. My family is on-board and we’ve been having a…
BPA free plastic isn’t as safe as we thought
A lot of information is floating around out there on the different types of plastics. Over the years we have learned that many plastics are known to be unsafe for use and that all plastics are a threat to our environment. Recently the talk has been about dangers of the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). BPA, a…
Solution to BPA on Receipts
Just in case you missed all the recent hubbub about BPA and receipts here is a little recap. Last summer the Environmental Working Group found very high levels of bisphenol-A (BPA) in paper receipts from supermarkets, automated teller machines, gas stations and chain stores. In some cases, the total amount of BPA on the receipt…