Due to Covid-19, our exercise workouts have changed. Does home exercise equipment contain toxic chemicals that may harm health?
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From Yoga Mats to Weights, Is Your Home Workout Toxic?
Plastic-Free July During Covid
It’s “Plastic-free July” – a global movement to raise awareness and help abolish single-use plastic. But consumption of single-use plastic has grown over 100% since Covid began. Our Mom Detective asks, “Does it make sense to try and curb my plastic consumption this year?”
Healthy Pregnancy Guide
This “Healthy Pregnancy Guide” is filled with tools, tips, information, and product recommendations for healthier solutions – based in hard science and research – on the ways to cultivate healthy practices and a healthy pregnancy.
Coronavirus Makes Plastic Pollution Worse
People are switching back to single-use plastic in an effort to distance from deadly COVID-19. Here are tips for staying healthy and using less plastic.
Conscientious Pandemic Shopping
How we shop during the COVID-19 pandemic can feel like a constant ethical dilemma, one that could have big consequences on the way we buy and consume stuff in the future.
8 Tools for Kids to Learn About Climate Change at Home
With schools closed, these fun hands-on tools and activities, can help teach climate change at home.
Tips for Shopping for Safe Children’s Furniture
Shopping for safe children’s furniture can be confusing. Here are tips on how to find the safest, healthiest furniture for your family.
Do Eco-Products Help Save the Planet, Or Do They Just Get Us To Buy More Stuff?
Can purchasing environmentally responsible products help to halt climate change? Or do they just get us to buy more wasteful stuff?
Ethane Cracker Plants: Threatening Our Air, Our Climate, and Our Health
Ethane “cracker plants” are industrial facilities that create the building blocks for plastics manufacturing. They also create air pollution that harms our health and makes climate change worse.
Mom Dectective: The Trouble With Dental Floss
Dental floss can be coated with some of the most persistent toxic chemicals, and this is particularly concerning with floss, because what you put in your mouth has direct access to your body and bloodstream. The good news is that there are safer floss options out there.
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring…Plastic
While smoggy particles and carbon dioxide are still primary sources of air pollution, much concern has turned to airborne plastic, too. Here’s how plastic becomes an air pollutant, why plastic pollution is an increasing problem, and what parents can do about it.
The Toxic Consequences of Trump’s Attacks on Chemical Safety Put Our Health at Risk
A new report by the Environmental Defense Fund details the major threats to public health and future generations from the Trump EPA attacks on the 2016 chemical safety law – the Lautenberg Act.
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