Seventh Generation’s Million Baby Crawl
Seventh Generation is taking action with their Million Baby Crawl to ensure that toxic chemicals found in many of our household products are better regulated.
There current Toxic Substances Control Act that should be protecting us from harmful chemicals, is outdated and not effective like it should be. Since the 1970’s, the EPA has only required safety testing on 200 of the over 80,000 chemicals found in common household products many of us use.
The new Kid Safe Chemical can help strengthen this previous legislation and make sure that all chemicals found within products we use are safe. This means safe for everybody, including our children and pregnant women.
Dr. Greene, notable pediatrician and author of several popular green health books for children, speaks about legislation and what we can do to keep our families safe:
Who knows the effect that many of these chemicals are doing to our families and in particular our children. That’s why it’s great that Seventh Generation is taking action to make sure that this bill gets passed to protect our children from all of these chemicals.
So what can you do to make sure this bill gets passed?
You can join Seventh Generation in their Million Baby Crawl to make sure this bill does in fact get passed. This doesn’t mean you have to march down to Washington DC either. Their site provides a way you can contact your local representative so that they know the importance of passing this legislation. There are also events being held in several major cities throughout America to get the word out.
There are also things that you can do to make sure that you are not exposing dangerous chemicals to your family just as Dr. Greene said. We can begin using safe products in our households including products from Seventh Generation and EcoMist or try making homemade cleaners. By simply using more natural products, especially cleaning products, we can reduce our families’ exposure harmful chemicals.
Good Luck to Seventh Generation and hopefully the Million Baby Crawl is successful in making our households safer.
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November 10th, 2009Trackback from : Seventh Generation’s Million Baby Crawl | Green & Clean
Wow, it makes me really happy to hear that Dr.’s like Greene are fighting and trying to change the world on our behalf! I really hope he succeeds with the legislation changes, it is about time for it to be updated!
Till then,
Jean
If you haven’t yet read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” I think you should really give it a chance because you’d probably be interested in all the environmental aspects of the book. =)
It is amazing that in this day and age so many dangerous chemicals are still being used in everyday products. There definitely needs to be regulations to prevent manufacturers from taking shortcuts just to save a buck.
Just out: More Than Genes: What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development, and the Risk to Our Children. by Dan Agin. Oxford University Press.
If anyone is in doubt about the impact of toxic chemicals on development, read this book!
It is interesting how much more media exposure these harmful chemicals have garnered lately. I’m sure these companies have been using unsafe chemicals for a long time and a lot of people probably suffered as a result. At least someone is trying to solve this problem.
Toxins are everywhere. We need to take care of our body’s so our bodies take care of us. I personally take opc-3 which combats free radicals caused by all the pollution and chemicals. Kid’s should take opc-3 specrtrum.
Mike
That’s a really great logo for this. And good information about chemicals and it’s affecting babies.