BlogHer is the world’s largest network of women bloggers. As such, it commands substantial financial sponsorships from multi-national conglomerates, many of whom jump at the chance to peddle their wares to the thousands of attendees who throng BlogHer’s annual conferences. After all, these women are bloggers: their online presence functions like a giant megaphone to the rest of […]
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Students Start Food Fight For Reusable School Lunch Trays.
1.6kviews Kids are going green, and not just at home. A cadre of student activists at Piney Branch elementary school in Takoma Park, MD, are agitating to replace the throw-away polystyrene lunch trays used in their public school cafeteria with reusable, washable ones. They’ve raised over $10,000 towards the purchase of a dishwasher to clean […]
Little girls are shopping for bras when they should still be playing with Play Dough.
Girls six and seven years old should not have to go shopping for a bra. But in this day and age, it seems like that’s exactly what they have to do. A new study reported in the journal Pediatrics found that very little girls are developing breasts earlier than ever before, increasing their risk of breast cancer […]
Want to Change What Stores Stock on Their Shelves? Go Meet With Them. These Women Did.
Big Green Purse urges consumers to shift their spending to greener products and services as a faster way to protect people and the planet. But that can be tough if you can’t find environmentally-friendly products at the stores where you commonly shop. After all, currently, only 3.5% of the produce in most grocery stores is organic. Most of the paper […]
Five Steps to a Naturally Green Drain
Let’s face it, clogged or slow moving drains are a bit of a drag. They leave a mess in the sink and actually stink if you wait too long to clean them up. Not so if you aim for a naturally green drain. Most people hastily grab the nearest (and nastiest) drain cleaners they can find, […]
Test Drive the New Chevy Volt With Me
The Chevy Volt is electrifying the car market – especially in the wake of the oil disasters in the Gulf of Mexico and now, Lake Michigan. Every one of us needs to stop using oil so the Volt, which can drive 40 miles on a battery powered by electricity rather than an engine fueled by […]
Beauty…or the Beast? Depends on the Safe Chemicals Act.
Cosmetics and personal care products literally touch every part of our bodies. We’ve been convinced that they’ll make us beautiful. They often make us feel better. But evidence is emerging that the cumulative use of these products may be contributing to asthma, the onset of puberty in girls as young as three years old, and […]
Clean Drinking Glasses with Toothpaste
977views My drinking glasses have been taking a beating. I’ve been using a non-phosphate based, powder detergent in the dishwasher, which minimizes pollution when the water goes down the drain. But over time, the glasses have gotten very cloudy. They’re still free of germs and muck when they’re finished washing, but they’re so cloudy, they […]