Shopping for safe children’s furniture can be confusing. Here are tips on how to find the safest, healthiest furniture for your family.
Mom Detective: Which Agencies Regulate The Products We Use?
Which government agencies oversee environmental health protections in this country? Mom Detective digs into the EPA, FDA, and others.
Mom Detective: 10 Tips to Protect Your Family From Harmful Products
Our Mom Detective put together 10 tips to help busy moms and dads choose the healthiest products for their 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 Facilities
What is a cracker facility, and how does it affect your health? Ethane crackers use ethane, a fossil-derived chemical, to create the tiny pellets that are the building blocks for plastics manufacturing. The process creates dangerous air pollution that harms our health and makes climate change worse.
Mom Detective: 7 Ways To Avoid Greenwashing
Just because a product looks beautiful and safe, doesn’t mean that it is. Learn ways to avoid getting greenwashed and how to become label savvy.
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 Detective: 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.
Child Car Seats Designed by Former Patagonia CEO for Safety and Sustainability
Meet WAYB, a new company focused on providing high quality baby products designed for both safety and eco-friendly sustainability.
Going Plastic-Free? Read This First.
Do you want to try and go plastic-free? Here are some tips – and some challenges – from busy moms for your home, the grocery store, and more.