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Tips Tuesday: 3 Green Gardening Tips

May 2, 2012
With summer around the corner, now is the perfect time to start working on a garden! Don't worry, this doesn't have to be a huge project. Start small with some simple outdoor or indoor gardening (or both!). Get started with a few indoor plants (or even just one! Even one indoor plant can improve...
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Fleeing Iraq To Save Her Children: Ekhlas’s Story [Video]

May 1, 2012
While shopping in an open market with her son, Ibrahim, a terrorist car bomb exploded next to Iraqi mother Ekhlas Zaky. The explosive shock wave struck her son in the head, blinding him in one eye and possibly damaging his brain. After the smoke cleared, young Ibrahim never spoke again. Since birth...
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Becca Heller
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Paid Leave Is Good for Economy

May 1, 2012
Hot off the presses – a new report finds access to paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child reduces the likelihood that a family will be forced to resort to public support or food stamps. Rutgers University and the National Partnership for Women & Families have analyzed data in the...
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Valerie Young

No Kids Under 18 Allowed Outside Without Adult Supervision

April 30, 2012
by Judy Molland A community in Florida is prohibiting anyone under age 18 from going outside unsupervised by an adult. That’s right: if you’re a kid at Ole Village in Lely Resort, Collier County, Florida, that means no bike riding, no walking to the bus stop, no being outside at all, without an...
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Florida Continues Trend to Ban the Shackling of Women in Labor

April 27, 2012
Last month, in a post about developments in legislation to limit the use of restraints on pregnant women, I wrote that Florida might become the next state to say no to shackles in the delivery room... and it has! On April 8, Governor Scott signed the bill to establish uniform rules against...
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Rachel Roth

Confessions of a Screen Addict About to Go Cold Turkey (almost) in Anticipation of Screen-Free Week: April 30-May 6

April 27, 2012
The truth: There I was, Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, champion of limiting children’s screen time, playing Angry Birds on the subway. The justification: There I was, Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, champion of limiting children’s screen time, after a...
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Susan Linn
Environmental Health

1 in 54 boys? Time for autism prevention.

April 27, 2012
If we set our minds to it, we can turn back the rising tide of autism. But it will take the courage to embrace the following common-sense goal, in both policy and practice: Expecting parents and young children should not take in chemical contaminants that are known to harm developing minds. This...
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Kristin Schafer
Environmental Health

Rendered Animal Wastes In Our Kids' Meals

April 26, 2012
The media is all abuzz with contradictory rumors and statements after a case of mad-cow disease (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE ) was found this week in California. The beef industry assures there's nothing to worry about. Understandably, consumers are confused. Here is the first thing to...
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Take Action: Johnson & Johnson, Drop Your Unhealthy Support for ALEC

April 26, 2012
We did it! We let Procter & Gamble know that their continued support of ALEC was unacceptable. And they dropped ALEC. As the main lobbyist source of the "kill at will" gun law that murdered Trayvon Martin, and proponent of voter ID laws that would disproportionately suppress women's voting...
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Wellness Wednesday: Health Reform and Domestic Violence

April 26, 2012
Did you know that domestic violence can be considered a pre-existing condition by health insurance companies? If you have a history of abuse, your insurance company can legally deny you coverage or increase your premiums. Horrifying, right? Since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, there are...
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