Has anyone else been following Environmental Health News’ series Pollution, Poverty, People of Color as if it were the new Mad Men? No? Personally I can’t get enough. I especially can’t get one article from last month out of my head. It was about how contaminated fish warnings fail to reach the people most at […]

I should be working but instead I'm Googling natural tick repellents, digging through the hall closet to see if we still have rain boots that fit, and worrying, especially about ozone. It hit well over 90 degrees in my hometown of New York City last week, prompting air quality warnings for the small, the pregnant, […]

In a completely unscientific study (polling my friends and readers), I’ve discovered that OB/GYNs are up to the task of warning patients not to eat certain fish, but they don’t bother to explain why. Same goes for most pregnancy books. What gives? Why aren’t we system thinkers? Why when a doctor takes the time to […]

I’m not much of a product person, but I spend a lot of time answering questions from people who want advice on what eco-products to buy. Environmentalists are fond of saying that we cannot shop our way out of our current problems. And I agree. But I also know that if we created an army […]

This is a guest post from Alexandra Zissu: I went to a Moms Clean Air Force lunch recently and was smitten. I’m someone who already knew some of the rather depressing statistics about air pollution described that day and all over this site, so I didn’t expect to be as moved as I was that […]