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Imagine your kids walked into school tomorrow and watched a video on not using plastic bags at the grocery store or plastic bottles for their water. Would you A. Agree or B. Throw a hissy and call the media because the school was trying to brainwash your kids with “radical, leftist” propaganda?
If you guessed B., you apparently would fit right in with the folks at a Utah elementary school who are up in arms over their kids being shown the “I Pledge” video, in which celebs pledge to clean up the environment, find cures for Alzheimer’s and autism and other absurd notions. Continue reading »
What kid wouldn’t want to get eye-to-eye with a whale? How about eye-to-blow-hole?
Thanks to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, any kid in America (or anywhere else for that matter) can. And don’t worry, Mom and Dad, they’ll walk out of the whole deal completely dry. Continue reading »
I have been waiting for this kind of news to come out: a study at the University of California, San Francisco has purported a possible link between the PCBs and PBDEs showing up in breastmilk and the development of autism.
Scary? Here’s where it gets even scarier: Continue reading »
In order to keep families pouring in the doors, most zoos are happy-go-lucky places where the animals frolic and play.
If that’s what you’re looking for, don’t take your kids to the Vienna zoo. That way you can keep pretending the world is one big happy place, where life for the animals is just the bees knees. Continue reading »
They’re loaded with nasty chemicals, and yet fire retardants are still being applied to thousands of baby products. But maybe not for long.
A new bill has been introduced in California to do away with the state’s demand that manufacturers load cribs, strollers, changing tables and more with fireproofing.
And in this case, as California goes, the rest of the country really will go! Continue reading »
So much for glass being the way to go to avoid BPA. Canadian researchers have found the toxic nasty every parent is hellbound to avoid is lurking inside the glass jarred baby food we all thought was safe. Continue reading »
Today on Babble:
“Dream It/Do It: Eco-Friendly Baby Gear”
By Tracy Chait.
Cheap and indulgent ways for new parents to go green.
Read it here.
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