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01/30/10

President Obama, in his State of the Union speech, called for a push to build new nuclear power plants to help serve our country’s energy needs. This is a truly unwise strategy. We’d go from the frying pan into the fire. At the very time of the President’s speech, a group of Vermonters were out in...

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Alice Shabecoff

Environmental Health

01/29/10

It's virtually impossible to stay on top of current events and not see how toxic chemicals are impacting the health of our environment and our bodies. For me, it’s all overwhelming and difficult to digest at times. And I can’t stop thinking about how the toxic chemicals that are hidden in the...

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Renee Blanchard

Environmental Health Health Care Food!

01/28/10

S.T.O.P.—Safe Tables Our Priority extends our congratulations to Dr. Elisabeth Hagen on her nomination for the position of Undersecretary for Food Safety. Dr. Hagen has hands on experience working for the United State’s Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in...

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Donna Rosenbaum

Environmental Health

01/28/10

In Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things , a new book by Environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, there’s a scene where Smith, caught in the middle of a chaotic two-kid-household bedtime routine, is stopped in his tracks by the discovery of flame retardants in his...

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Claire Moshenberg

Environmental Health Health Care

01/27/10

So it turns out that cadmium (atomic number forty-eight, for those of you scoring at home) is more than a long-forgotten square on the periodic table. It’s also a toxic heavy metal found in our children’s jewelry. Earlier this month, the Associated Press (AP) revealed that it recently found high...

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Charlie Pizarro

01/27/10

What do you think of tonight's State of the Union address? Did the President touch on the issues you care about? What do you think of the policies he discussed and his vision for family economic security? Share your thoughts on all this and more here! Join in the conversation now by sharing your...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

01/27/10

According to recent reports, women are increasingly the primary or sole family breadwinner due to the recession [1]. With women still earning only 78 cents on the dollar to their male counterparts [2], you gotta wonder: How are we supposed to win enough bread for our families, when we're not...

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Donna Norton

01/27/10

For as long as I live, I will never forget Maria and her children. She left her home one day while her husband was at work, packed up what she could in her beat-up mini-van, took her children and left. Her first stop was the family service agency in a small city in northern California where I was...

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Vanessa Cajina

Childcare & Early Education

01/27/10

In listening to the political commentators prepare for the State of the Union Address tonight, most of them are telling the President that he must reframe the discussion, have courage, and focus on jobs, jobs, jobs. I think that the President is doing something quite courageous that SADLY may be...

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Ellen Galinsky

01/27/10

Susan Kane, Editor-in-Chief, Parenting magazine In Newport, PA, Cheryl Capozzi was used to seeing her kids reading torn, stained, taped-together old books from their school library. But when her first-grader brought home a mold-covered book falling out of its binding, she decided to do something...

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Susan Kane