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Blog Action Day 2011: best food posts of the day

October 16, 2011

It’s Blog Action Day 2011. Blog Action Day is the one day a year when all bloggers join together to discuss one important issue. I’ve been participating since 2007, and it’s not only fun, but informative to read what all these different types of bloggers have to say about a single issue. Last year’s topic [...]

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Go organic without going insane – tips to make the organic transition easier

October 16, 2011

Today is Blog Action Day 2011. This year’s topic is food, which is a little redundant here at Growing a Green Family, since we discuss food all the time. With that in mind, I thought we’d take a peek back at my favorite food issues – organic food. When I decided to go organic, I almost went nuts [...]

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Kids in California Have Higher Levels of Flame Retardants in Their Bodies Than Kids Elsewhere

April 24, 2011

Some new research shows that Mexican-American children living in California have higher levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants in their body than children who live in Mexico. The new research shows that California-based kids involved in the study have PBDE levels that are three times higher than their mothers’ levels during pregnancy and [...]

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Real facts about toxic chemicals and your family’s health

June 25, 2010

One of my writing clients, Inhabitots has an excellent exclusive video interview posted. In said video Inhabitat and Inhabitots founder Jill Fehrenbacher talks to Dr. Alan Greene and gets the real facts about toxic chemicals and your family’s health. It’s a must see (check out the video below) or head over to the post to [...]

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Toxic America Premieres Tonight!

June 2, 2010

In case you haven’t heard, Toxic America premieres tonight June 2 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN, and it’s a must see for concerned parents. Toxic America is a special two-night investigative report with Sanjay Gupta M.D. that takes an in-depth look at how toxins affect us all. The first night (that would be tonight) [...]

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Why Choose Organic Cotton Clothing & Textiles

May 22, 2010

Being that I share organic clothing and other organic textile products here, I was thinking we should look at why… Conventional cotton (non-certified organic) is cotton that may be grown with pesticides. First of all, you obviously don’t want your skin exposed to chemicals and secondly, the use of said pesticides is rampant in cotton. [...]

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Green Glossary: Organic

May 17, 2010

In the most basic of definitions, organic means; “Relating to, or derived from living organisms.” Now of course the term organic has also come to mean the use of fertilizers or pesticides that are strictly of animal or vegetable origin. Even further related to food, the term organic stands for meat or poultry raised without [...]

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