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Gift Guide: Non-Toxic Beauty Gifts and DIY Tips

December 7, 2011
Beauty products make great stocking stuffers for the ladies in your life. Leave toxic chemicals out of your gifts by using these easy shopping tips or making inexpensive, non-toxic DIY versions. 1) First, do your research before you give: We know you want to avoid giving a toxic gift, but labels on...
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Claire Moshenberg

Struggling Moms Need Healthy Teeth: Don’t Cut Prenatal Dental Care

December 6, 2011
The U.S. economy continues to sputter and that means state legislators around the country are once again debating deep cuts in spending. Here in Washington, the latest round of budget-cutting threatens to wash away one of the state’s vital though too often overlooked programs for families: Prenatal...
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Paul Nyhan
Childcare & Early Education

Why I'm (Pre)Occupied with Miley Cyrus: Does Hannah Montana Still Matter?

December 6, 2011
It's been easy for people worried about the sexualization of little girls to feel unambivalently distressed about Miley Cyrus as Disney's Hannah Montana. But how should we feel about her now that she's made this great music video about Occupy protests around the world?
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Susan Linn
Immigration

The Next Citizen's Movement -- Respectful Dialogue

December 6, 2011
by Tojosan on flickr.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/tojosan/2942623369/ On December 4, 2011, the Livingroom Conversations Website went live and I co-hosted a demonstration Living Room Conversation gathering with my conservative partner Amanda Kathyrn Roman. I'm still feeling the glow. I expanded...
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Joan Blades
Open Flexible Work

Gotta love The Good Wife

December 6, 2011
I’m a mom of a two-and-a-half year old and a three month old and I have a full time job. If I have any extra “me” time that isn’t spent shirking the gym and the growing piles of laundry, I’ll probably spend it sleeping. So a TV show has to be super appealing to make it on my very small “must see”...
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Ruth Martin
Environmental Health

Truly Organic: Agreement Creates Truth-in-Labeling for Organic Personal Care Products

December 6, 2011
Crossposted from Generation Green , the action center for the Center for Environmental Health. Last week, agreements reached with eleven companies that make products sold at national retailers, including Walgreens, Target, Whole Foods and many others, their “organic” labeled products must comply...
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Charles Margulis
Health Care

Raise Your Voice

December 6, 2011
When our children are sick, most of us take comfort in knowing the pediatrician is only a phone call away. Yet, too many children face long waits and limited access to the health care they need. If Congress doesn’t step up to protect the programs our kids need, more families will struggle to access...
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Aimee Ossman

Is There Arsenic In My Kids’ Apple Juice?

December 5, 2011
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week, the news broke that Consumer Reports had found traces of arsenic in apple juice. Naturally, I was alarmed. Although we don’t keep juice in the house—limiting the selections to filtered water...
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Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls Online: Dozens of Anti-Trafficking Experts Dispute Village Voice’s Claim That Its Efforts to Stop Sex Trafficking Are ‘Effective’

December 3, 2011
On December 2nd, FAIR Girls (an agency I co-founded in 2003 to help find and empower high risk and exploited girls) and fifty-three leading anti-trafficking experts and organizations sent a letter to Village Voice Media demanding the immediate and permanent removal of the Adult section of its...
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Andrea Powell

Wanted: More moms in office

December 3, 2011
We all know that moms make great elected leaders, but now hear it from those who know first-hand: Women make up 17 percent of Congress and 24 percent of state legislatures. That puts the US at 69th in the world in the number of women in elected office. The 2012 Project is a national campaign to...
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Stacy Mason

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