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Five Organizations Bringing Clean Cooking Technologies to the Developing World

May 18, 2012

Cooking’s a killer activity in the developing world: millions die from smoke inhalation, and forests are stripped bare as billions gather wood for their stoves (or for making charcoal for cooking). Take a look at five organizations working to address these multiple challenges.

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Five Organizations Bringing Clean Cooking Technologies to the Developing World

May 18, 2012

Cooking’s a killer activity in the developing world: millions die from smoke inhalation, and forests are stripped bare as billions gather wood for their stoves (or for making charcoal for cooking). Take a look at five organizations working to address these multiple challenges.
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3 Environmentally-Friendly Ways to De-Stress for National Stress Awareness Month

April 8, 2012

Image by Helga Weber / Creative Commons April is National Stress Awareness Month. It is a time when people from all walks of life can learn about how stress impacts not only their day to day lives, but their health, … Continue reading →

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How Does Your Garden Grow? Tips for the Home Organic Gardening Beginner

March 30, 2012

Ready to start gardening this Spring? Wherever you live – in a house with a yard or an apartment with a balcony – you can use these tips to grow some of your own produce.
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Growth in World Contraceptive Use Stalling; 215 Million Women’s Needs Still Unmet

March 27, 2012

At least 215 million women want to prevent or delay pregnancy but are not using effective contraception. This “unmet need” for family planning may be due to poor reproductive health information, social pressures, or insufficient access to contraceptive options. In Africa, more than 1 in 4 women have unmet need — by far the highest rate of any region.
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I Can’t Exercise for Exercise’s Sake

March 19, 2012

I can’t stand to exercise just for the sake of exercising. As a working parent of three active kids, I don’t have the time to go to the gym or workout at home to exercise. I even have had trouble this year fitting in 5 minute blocks of targeted exerc…

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Raising Healthy Kids: Avoid BPA

March 16, 2012

Classic Glass Baby Bottle – BPA Free

Update: The FDA is planning to decide whether or not to continue
allowing food packaging that leaches BPA by March 31, 2012. There is no time to lose – the
FDA has to hear from you before it makes its call. Th…

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3 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Family’s Exposure to Harmful Chemicals in Your Home

March 15, 2012

Today I am heading out of Orlando and over to the west coast of Florida to meet with the Deputy Director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, Lindsay Dahl. To me, Ms, Dahl is a rockstar and I am…

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Wordless Wednesday 3-7-12 What’s In My Green PolkaDot Box?

March 6, 2012

Wordless Wednesday is a day for me to share a photo from a moment in time in my green living life with you with just a few words…

I look forward to seeing my Green PolkaDot Box orders on my…

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There’s More in That Can of Soda Than You Paid For: Part Two, What The Coca-Cola® Company Is Doing to Protect Consumers

March 5, 2012

Yesterday in Part One of our series on soda, There’s More in That Can of Soda Than You Paid For, we discovered that drinking soda from a can can mess with your hormones.  Bisphenol-A (BPA) in…

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