#ecowed Twitter party – Spring Cleaning: Creating a Toxicant Free Home

I’m so excited for this week’s #ecowed Twitter party! We will be talking Spring Cleaning: Creating a Toxicant Free Home with our sponsor ecomom and some very special extra guests, including mother-daughter team Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell from Celebrate Green, Lisa Frack and Senior Scientist Becky Sutton from the Environmental Working Group, and Beth Greer from [...]

New Study Shows Eliminating Canned Foods & Plastic Food Packaging From Diet Significantly Reduces BPA Levels

A peer reviewed study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives provides evidence that eliminating canned foods and plastic food packaging from your diet can dramatically reduce the concentrations of bisphenol A (BPA) and DEHP metabolites in your urine. And what it really means that if you are concerned about exposure to BPA and DEHP, you [...]

Green Moms Carnival – Hope Springs Eternal

This post is part of this month’s Green Moms Carnival. Our topic this month is “hope or despair” and was inspired by a story of a man indicating he would use a gun to protect his food crops. You’ll have to head over to the Big Green Purse blog post on the carnival to get all [...]

Revisiting Lavender and Tea Tree Oil & Breast Development in Young Boys

Okay, so I’m reading Samuel S. Epstein, MD’s new book Healthy Beauty: Your Guide to Ingredients to Avoid and Products You Can Trust to review it.  (BTW – If you buy the book from the link, I get some change, and I mean just a little bit of change, because it is linked through my Amazon [...]

Lucky Kids Mag – Missing the Point – Organic Onesies and Vinyl?

Okay, so I received a copy of the new Lucky Kids Magazine. And it does not purport to be a parenting magazine, but, just like its parent, Lucky Kids is a shopping magazine for kids. So, I wasn’t expecting all that much really in terms of green or natural. I mean, a shopping magazine is really [...]

Fabulous #EcoWed Twitter Party – Cooking with Kids & Family Meals

We’ve got a fabulous #ecowed Twitter party lined up for Wednesday, February 23, 2011 from 7 to 8 pm Pacific (that’s 10 to 11 for you Eastern peeps). EcoMom is sponsoring the party, and we will be talking about cooking with the kids and family meals. Our wonderful guest expert will be Diana Stobo, author [...]

#Ecowed Twitter Party – Staying Healthy Naturally

This week’s #ecowed Twitter party is right on topic for this time of year – EcoMom Healthy Prevention and Remedies for the New Year with Dr. Alan Greene. As the title and topic suggest, this week’s #ecowed is sponsored by EcoMom, and our guest expert will be the fabulous Dr. Alan Greene, pediatrician, father of [...]

The Smart Mama on CBS’ The Talk

So, accordingy to my sister, I finally made it. I appeared on CBS’ The Talk on January 4, 2011. Woot! I was so excited to be asked to give some tips for going non toxic at home on CBS’ The Talk. I had the pleasure of being on camera with fellow green mama Sara Gilbert, [...]

Book Review: 48 Things To Know About Sustainable Living by Victoria Klein

When Hachette Book Group published my book, Smart Mama’s Green Guide: Simple Steps to Reduce Your Child’s Toxic Chemical Exposure, I participated in a course with Blog Book Tours and really learned a lot. But a lot of the books were fiction, so I couldn’t help out many of my fellow authors. So I’m thrilled [...]

#Ecowed Twitter Party – Method’s New Antibacterial Cleaning Products

Do you think that bleach is necessary to kill germs in your house? Do you want to cheat on your bleach but are worried that surfaces just won’t be clean enough without it? Are you tired of making your own cleaners but don’t want to buy conventional cleaners because they can contain nasty chemicals? Well, [...]

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