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Cleantech Challenge Mexico 2012: Funds Green Startups in Mexico

Veronica French — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:28:58 +0000

San Francisco has it, so does Boston, London, Australia and South Africa, and now Mexico. Cleantech competitions have turned into a global trend over night, creating a forum where entrepreneurs can showcase their inventions, share ideas, learn from their peers and experts, and best of all, get financed. In its third edition, the Cleantech Challenge Mexico seeks to once again support Mexican cleantech and green entrepreneurs to kick-start their businesses.

Catch Up On Your Weekly Green News

Tara — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:13:37 +0000

Image by Dorena-wm / Creative Commons Well, the weekend is here and after a long week, I figured it was time to catch everyone up on some of the weekly green news I’ve seen, heard and read about this week. … Continue reading →

Autism and Chemicals, Cancer Report Under Fire, and Kudos!

Healthy Child Healthy World — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:04:58 +0000

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 Honorary Board member of Healthy Child Healthy World, recently released a comprehensive list of environmental triggers, published [...]

Autism and Chemicals, Cancer Report Under Fire, and Kudos! is a post from: Eco Child's Play

Earth Week is for Mothers

Healthy Child Healthy World — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:13:16 +0000

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 study involving more than 200 infants, researchers found the “5 S’s” [...]

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April is Autism Month; New Studies Look for Causes

Healthy Child Healthy World — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:25:10 +0000

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 years—a new study published last week in the journal Clinical Epigenetics [...]

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WAMU: Take Big Oil’s “Vote-4-Energy” Sponsorship Ads Off the Air!

Hank — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:00:46 +0000

Urge NPR to remove the American Petroleum’s “Vote-4-Energy” sponsorship ads from all future broadcasts. This ad is politically charged and comes dangerously close to the electoral campaign advertisements from candidates who advocate rampant exploitation of fossil fuels regardless of their environmental costs.

Chipotle Uses Grammys To Draw Attention to Sustainable Farming

Priti Ambani — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:00:27 +0000

We love Chipotle. Here is one more reason why. The restaurant chain (I refuse to call it fast food anymore) ran a lengthy animated ad during the Grammy's last weekend that spoke about sustainable food farming and more. Worth a watch and a great lesson on how food companies can get it right.

Clorox Launches Mobile App That Reveals Ingredients in its Products

Priti Ambani — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:00:35 +0000

The Clorox Company last week launched its new Ingredients Inside smartphone application and mobile website. Now smartphone users have immediate access to information about Clorox ingredients for their household and commercial disinfecting, cleaning and laundry products in the U.S. and Canada. Next Step? Explain how the ingredients affect planet and human health.

Cleanweb Hackathon NYC: Winning App Helps Shoppers Find Efficient Appliances

Priti Ambani — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:20:31 +0000

The second edition of the Cleanweb Hackathon concluded this past weekend in NYC bringing together scores of innovative minds in information technology who believe "cleantech" can solve the resource constraints of the 21st century.

5 Lessons For Eco-Businesses From Jessica Alba’s Honest Company

Priti Ambani — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:58:04 +0000

Jessica Alba is using her star power to launch a brand new e-commerce business - Honest.com that sells eco-friendly baby products. Through an innovative business model for safe baby stuff, Alba has shown some keen business acumen. She says the idea was born after she learned that toxic chemicals are widely used in everyday products. What shocked her was the fact that only a few hundred of the more than 80,000 chemicals registered for use in US products have been adequately tested for safety.