Author Archives: Lisa F
Public Schools Could Get $ for Building Green
Thanks to Seattle’s The Green Parent for alerting us to the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public Schools Facilities Act (aka H.R. 3021). It’s a school construction program with a green building requirement. Makes good sense to require green building if … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Conservation, Education, Environment
Tagged green building, public school funding
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The Kid Safe Chemical Act: A Real Solution
If I stop and think about it, it really alarms me that I am a mere seven years older than the toxics law in this country, a clunker that has so few teeth it doesn’t control many substances at all, … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Environment, Government, Product Safety
Tagged environmental working group, kid safe chemicals act
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Paid Parental Leave for Fed Employees: Speak Up, Moms!
So maybe you’re not a federal employee like I was until last week. Shoot, maybe you don’t even know a federal employee (we’re nice, really). So why e-mail or call your U.S. Representative and ask that she vote for paid … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Democracy, Government, Politics, Working Families
Tagged employee benefits, federal employees, HR 5781, paid family leave, paid leave
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Protesting With Your Kids: Would You? Have You?
Despite my strong opinions on most things (no!) and apparent urge to share them, I continue to surprise myself by failing repeatedly to attend protests. I also don’t post political signs in my yard. Not for any good reason I … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Democracy, Family, Politics, Social Justice
Tagged kids and politics, protesting
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Work & Family Bill of Rights: Sign It, Mamas!
I love our country’s Bill of Rights (without which our opportunities to SPEAK UP might be a wee bit limited) and am not as regularly thankful for it as I should be. So… thank you, James Madison! So I was … Continue reading
Job Sharing: Would You? Could You? Have You?
We workin’ mamas do love to complain about the lack of flexible options in our own and other workplaces (got a 1/2 hour??). Ever dream of working fewer hours to pick the kids up from school yourself, still doing meaningful … Continue reading
More Expensive Healthcare for Caesarean Moms?
Health care these days is so ridiculously complicated – at least for me. And as someone who is about to step into the entirely different world of non-employer-based health care for the very first time, I am rather overwhelmed by … Continue reading
Family Values at Work: It’s About Time
Not that you have loads of reading time or anything. And not like a report titled Family Values at Work: It’s About Time would, say, make you put down your Wonder Time or Brain, Child magazine (or The New Yorker … Continue reading
Speak Up to Ban Phthalates in the U.S. – Quick!
Just today I was thinking about phthalates. Why? Because I attended a brown bag discussion called Toxic Tuesdays at our local library where staff from the Oregon Center for Environmental Health and a co-founder of Rachel’s Friends (think breast cancer … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Corporations, Environment, Product Safety, Shopping
Tagged consumer product safety act, Phthalates, safe products
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Are You Mad, Depressed, or Both?
I grew up on the east coast but married a gentle man and now live in the friendliest city ever (Portland, Oregon). So while I can thank the bus driver as well as the next person and hold the elevator … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Corporations, Environment, Product Safety, Shopping
Tagged bisphenol-A, safe products
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