I've been wanting to link up with Green Bean's Spot the Pollinator series , but haven't had a chance to take many photos of ...

Let me tell you a really sad story. Several months ago I started trolling Craig's List for a used wood play structure. My frien...

The Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ Every year for the past nine years, the Environmental Working Group has published the...

EWG updates this their Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce every year based on tests for pesticide residue conducted by the U...

I love shopping at the farmer's market ! In fact, the farmer's market is  the only place I  shop for food   on a weekly basis.  ...

For many years, autism research has focused on genetic factors. But researchers estimate that "the total fraction of ASD attributa...

Deanna Duke, long-time environmentalist and parent of two, used to believe that products sold in stores were generally safe since the FDA s...

Thanksgiving is one of my very favorite holidays.  I love the traditional Thanksgiving meal. I love that gifts are not exchanged.  I lov...

Imagine that one day you look into an emptied out toy bin in your family room and you find a pretty large dead black bug in it.  Gross, ...

What I purchased last Saturday at my local farmers' market: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums,  red onions, green onion...

image credit: Adam Fields Here are some things I like to avoid eating: Synthetic hormones (found in conventional meat and dairy...

The big news is that EWG published their new Dirty Dozen (and Clean Fifteen). Here is the cute printable guide . I prefer to print o...

The winner of the Nothing But Soap natural laundry soap giveaway is: Heaventaste! Thank you to all who participated.  If you are like ...

Wow, so many interesting and disturbing reads in the last 2 weeks.  All the Plastic and Food links are followed by a short excerpt from th...

"The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals have created a silent pandemic in mode...

Please leave. Yes, folks, it's that awesome time of year again, at least where I live.  The time when the ants get tired of being wet...

This post is the third in the series, The Cost of Going Green .   Previous posts include: Save Money while Going Green Save Money on Food wh...

Visiting the local farm from which we buy much of our organic produce. In many cases, going green is totally compatible with being frug...

Here are 10 resources I regularly use in my research regarding healthier products and greener living.   U.S. Environmental Protection Ag...

A reader sent in the question below about organic bras. Since I know very little about the organic cotton clothing world, I asked Rachel (o...