Here’s the clip of my most recent TV appearance talking about BPA-free water bottles. For information on where you can purchase each kind, you can read the show notes on Daytime’s website. Hope you enjoy!
Publishing News!
I am announcing wonderful news! I was chosen my a major book publisher to write a new book on how to create a healthier home, school and workplace for you and your entire family.
I have been writing non-stop for a month to meet my deadline, which is almost here, but I can do it! With such a quick turn around, you can expect to see the book in bookstores early next year.
I look forward to sharing more about the upcoming book and all of the many ways that you can create a healthier, greener home and workplace, so stay tuned for more information! It’s a great time to sign up for the monthly newsletter where I’ll be sharing the majority of the news and events.
Thanks so much for your support – and for wanting to create a healthier home!,
Kim
I was recently on Daytime discussing three super easy ways to grow food at home. If you don’t want to dig a garden, but still want to grow food at home, consider these three tips!
I’ll be teaching a class titled Seven Steps to a Healthier Home on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Here’s a class description:
Your family spends a lot of time at home -shouldn’t it be a non-toxic environment to support your family’s health? Learn seven quick and easy (and sane!) steps to take to start creating a healthier home for you and your family. Discover which kinds of food storage items you should avoid – and which ones are safe. Learn how to harness the natural power of our Florida sunshine to kill one of the most common allergy-causing problems in your home. You’ll walk away with easy and often inexpensive ideas to create a healthy oasis at home for you and your loved ones.
Register through Leu Gardens at www.leugardens.org Hope to see you there!
There’s a serious lack of health and safety when it comes to cosmetics in this country. Read this guest blog post by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director and CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World to find out a little more info on who’s trying to stop the Safe Cosmetics Act, and how it will actually help our country.
This week, the big news is all about beauty. No, I’m not talking about the latest lipstick color or the best shade of salmon to go with your summer tan. This is serious.
When the Safe Cosmetics Act was introduced to the House of Representatives last month, the fall out was immediate. The goal of the act is to ensure that all personal care products are safe by establishing a system to assess the safety of cosmetics ingredients and to phase out the most dangerous substances that are suspected of causing cancer, reproductive harm or other adverse health effects. But some argued that such a restrictive act would “kill jobs.” And considering that beauty is a $50 billion a year industry, that’s no small claim.
In response, heavy-hitters lined up on the side of safer cosmetics. “The personal care products that make us clean should not make us sick,” said Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts, as quoted last week on Triple Pundit. “The Safe Cosmetics Act will close a gaping hole in the federal law that allows potentially toxic chemicals to remain in the products we use everyday.”
Forbes.com followed with a story that called out big beauty companies like Avon, among others, for “pinkwashing,” which it defines as “the practice of using the color pink and pink ribbons to indicate a company has joined the search for a breast cancer cure and to invoke breast cancer solidarity, even when the company may be using chemicals linked to cancer.”
Rebecca Hamilton, a sustainable personal care entrepreneur, published a comprehensive piece on GreenBiz.com that laid out the reasons the Safe Cosmetics Act would actually be good for business, including bringing the U.S. in line with international safety standards.
Meanwhile, members of the House recently joined together to call for a review of the so-called “Brazilian blowout” process because of allegations that it contains toxic levels of formaldehyde, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics reported.
We’re guessing they represent the yes vote.
Sign the petition to support the Safe Cosmetics Act.
Read more: http://healthychild.org/blog/comments/congress_stands_for_jobs_and_safer_beauty/#ixzz1SUE2GE7d
