Author Archives: Julie Pippert
Good grief, breasts are not obscene! Not on a Starbucks mermaid or in a nursing baby’s mouth.
My friends and I decided to take the kids and go out to lunch today. I had just given my friend Cynthia a thank you note and gift card to Starbucks. “Thank you for the gift card!” she said. “You’re … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding, Social Justice, WTF?, Women
Tagged boycott Starbucks, breasts, Christian boycott, Christians boycott Starbucks, Starbucks, The Resistance
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Wired magazine tells environmentalists to forget organics, go nuclear, and screw the spotted owl
Setting current green ideas on their head, the 15th anniversary issue of Wired magazine says, “If you’re serious about global warming, only one thing matters: Cutting carbon. That means facing some inconvenient truths.” In an impressive 24-page spread, the magazine … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged Al Gore, carbon dioxide, carbon footprint, earth-friendly, Environment, environmentally friendly, hybrid cars, organic
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Recycling plastic: the trouble with being Green and Plastic Number 6
By Ann Bibby, new contributor for Moms Speak Up Up to his elbows in soapy water and surrounded by pieces of the broken dishwasher, my husband Rob made a startling announcement. “I’m giving up recycling.” To understand my shock better … Continue reading
Posted in Environment
Tagged landfill, plastic number 6, polystyrene, recycling, recycling plastic, sorting plastic
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Making it personal: Get to know some uninsured children
Kyla, from The Journey, has shared her daughter’s and family’s story many times in many places. Most recently, she told it to elected officials in Austin—where she explained that children who lack insurance and health care cost us all more … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Health Care, Healthcare
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Interview with Laura Guerra-Cardus of the Children’s Defense Fund
Happy child and mom getting health care at Texas Children’s Hospital. President Bush vetoed a bill that would have expanded and provided additional much needed funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) (despite it passing Congress) and hasn’t got … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Children, Family, Health Care, Healthcare
Tagged CDF, Children's Defense Fund, CHIP, cover the uninsured, uninsured children
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Cover the Uninsured: A National Campaign for Healthy Kids
What does it mean to you to hear the phrase, “uninsured children?” What does it mean to hear, “underinsured children?”According to the Children’s Defense Fund 9.4 million children in America, almost 90 percent living in working households and a majority … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Children, Health Care
Tagged Children's Defense Fund, cover the uninsured, Health Care, uninsured children
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What will it take to get your attention? Alarming trends in US show serious health care issues
Summary: Lack of preventive health care, lack of access to health care, lifestyle, poverty and pollution combine into a perfect storm that has women’s life expectancy dropping. Elizabeth Edwards, in her recent NY Times article, coined the term “strobe-light journalism.” … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Media, Women
Tagged dropping life expectancy for women, Environment, healthcare crisis, life expectancy, pollution, poor, rural
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Earth Day sale at Amazon Green
If there are green products you can’t buy locally, want to research, price compare, or are ready to buy and need to off the Internet, consider checking out Amazon Green at Amazon.com. They’re having an Earth Day sale on Green … Continue reading
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Kids Auction Art to Benefit Earth Day 2008
Aimee Greeblemonkey’s son came up with the excellent idea to have a backyard Art Sale (and then executed it, to great success). After she blogged about it, one of her readers, Nadine, came up with a brilliant suggestion: Why not … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Children, Environment
Tagged Alliance for Climate Protection, art auction, earth day 2008, kid art, kids, We Can Solve It
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Only 7% of the Atlantic Forest Remains; Nature Conservancy launches Plant a Billion
The Atlantic Forest is one of the largest tropical rain forests in the world. However, after decades of clear cutting, expansion, development, and agriculture only seven percent of the original forest remains. Why are tropical rain forests important to the … Continue reading