Category Archives: Call to Action
Be a Food Dye Rebel
Recently, the Coca-Cola company decided to stop selling food products (read breakfast cereals, snacks and drinks) in the UK that contained artificial dyes. Bravo Coca-Cola and to all the other companies that decided to do this! Bravo for listening to … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Children, Corporations, Product Safety, Toxins and Chemicals
Tagged Family, food, food dyes, health, hyperactivity, kids, UK, US
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Teaching Kids to Live with Less
Mummy I’m Bored Sound familiar? Many mothers I know pack their kids’ days with activities from the time that they wake up to the time that they fall asleep. And while there is certainly some logic to keeping kids busy, … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Children, Conservation, Environment
Tagged Conservation, consumerism, drought, Live with less, watch less TV
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Green Our Vaccines March
Over at Treehugger, there was a short listing of hollywoods sexiest vegetarians. It was not the vegetarian aspect that made my day, or the the sexy part, but the link to Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey’s latest press release regarding the … 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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Calling All Part-Time Working Parents!
I love that there’s an organization called A Better Balance that works solely to improve the whole work-family balance conundrum. They describe themselves this way: A Better Balance is a legal advocacy organization dedicated to empowering individuals to meet the … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Corporations, Family, Women
Tagged a better balance, flexible work, part-time employment
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Family Leave Insurance Act of 2008: Bring On the Co-Sponsors!!
I come bearing good news – for once! There’s a new paid family leave bill in town (DC, that is), and I’m happy to say it’s good stuff. The states have been hard at work on this one, but in my mind … Continue reading
Meatless Mondays
Now more than ever it seems like a good time to initiate Meatless Mondays. I only call it that because it is catchy and an easy way to remember this handy little economy/environment helping tip: For one day, eat no meat. For one … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Environment, Family
Tagged animals, eat less meat, energy, Environment, meatless meals
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Top Ten Ways to Reclaim Mother’s Day!
What is the sound of mothers Arising? This Mother’s Day, MAU Mavens across the country will be strapping on stilts, baking pies for elected leaders, hawking fair trade roses and singing in the streets! Reclaiming Mother’s Day events – now … Continue reading
We Control the Horizontal ~ We Control the Vertical (or why media concentration is bad for America)
*cue Twilight Zone theme * Did you know that just 6 media conglomerates control most of the media in the US? This may seem unimportant to you and your family and I assure you there are some folks that are … Continue reading
Posted in Call to Action, Corporations, Government, Media
Tagged FCC, media concentration, media ownership
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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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