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Sustainababy

Growing up green: Breathing for two 1
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago Anna Fahey explores what energy and climate policy has to do with her baby's IQ.
White House loads policy initiatives into a few hours of fun at Healthy Kids Fair 0
Posted 1 month ago The autumn sunshine was very bright, the weather unseasonably warm, and there was a party atmosphere at the White House for Wednesday’s Healthy Kids Fair. The fun side of the the Healthy Kids Fair was reported by mainstream media. But the event couldn’t have been more serious.
The toxic assault on our children

Can we protect kids from the toxic trappings of modern life? 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Philip and Alice Shabecoff's Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children casts environmental contamination in the context of kids, connecting the dots between the toxification of the young and a slew of once rare, now devastatingly commonplace childhood diseases.
Bag it

Better ways to spend $1 million on plastics 4
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
A plastics industry trade group plans to drop $1 million to fight Seattle's 20-cent tax on shopping bags. We suggest some better uses for the money.
Littler kids, bigger risks

New report details pesticide over-use in child care centers 0
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
You make your home as green as you can -- but what happens when Jr. heads off to daycare? Fawn Pattison explains the risks, and what you can do.