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Good Parenting for the Chemical Industry
This is cross-posted from the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families blog here. Much thanks to the wonderful folks there for publishing it! Here’s a basic truth every Mom knows: it’s far easier to avoid...
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Are You a Modern Canary?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is cross-posted from Dr. Claudia Miller’s excellent blog, here, where she writes about her fascinating work on intolerance to chemicals and their impact on health. Thanks...
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The Best and Worst Week, Basically Ever
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (Photo credit: Cayusa) I’ll start, as one always should, with the good news. On Friday, the state of California, acting at the direction of Governor Jerry Brown, has...
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And now, for some things YOU can do on flame retardants…
(Photo credit: treehouse1977) I’ve been busy getting used to working again, getting Maya transitioned to the new schedule, working on my nascent book proposal, and hatching plans for a new on-line...
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Dear California, You Owe America a New Couch
Sent to: tb117comments@dca.ca.gov Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation 4244 South Market Court, Suite D Sacramento, CA 95834 Dear Governor Brown and Chief...
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The Trouble with Toxics: What Dateline Missed and Why
Small Zombies in the Winter of Our Discontent (Photo credit: Wikipedia) NBC’s Dateline just this week ran a well-executed two-part series on toxic chemicals that included body burden testing of one of...
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Hot Reads: CA Takes Back Its Dumb Rule, Chemical Reform Under Contemplation,...
(Photo credit: stevendepolo) Kick up your feet: this couch won’t bite! Fantastic news from California! It looks like beginning this winter, furniture makers will be able to jettison toxic flame...
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DIY Furniture Re-Do: Breathing New Life into Furniture with Chalk Paint
One of my beefs with cheaper types of new furniture is that it’s more or less designed to end up pretty quickly in a landfill. Some of the press-board stuff that you have to assemble can’t even be...
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One-Day Drab-to-Fab Bathroom Makeover with Chalk Paint
Our basement bathroom was until recently a rather drab affair. Since it’s not an area we often use, though, I really didn’t want to spend any significant amount of money to make it more cheerful....
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Toxic Hot Seat on HBO tonight!
Red sofa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hallelujah! A new film about the struggle to understand and address the hidden poisons in our sofas — Toxic Hot Seat — airs for the first time tonight on HBO. Slate...
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