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How Safe Is Your Water Bottle? Recently there has been much debate in the scientific community about the affects of the chemical bisphenol A. This chemical is found to varying degrees in plastic water bottles, making them unsafe and possibly hazardous to the health of those consumers who drink water out of plastic bottles on a regular basis.

Are SIGG Water Bottles Safe? There are many questions about the safety of SIGG water bottles. A lot of the questions arise because of the limited research that has been done and the recent health concerns about BPA. In this article I will go over the limited information that is available and explain why you should avoid SIGG water bottles.

Bathing my children, it’s a nightly routine. It’s calming for the children and for me, I like to have the children smelling clean. Sorry, I just do. I always took a bath nightly and so do my children. They bath together and we don’t use very much water, so were conserving. Using a non-toxic, [...]

It’s been a hairy day of stressful mayhem, as I slid in my socks on the linoleum floor of digital deadlines to file my grant app for the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media Learning Competition with literally about 2 minutes to spare.

I love to get into the minds of those that create our safer baby and toddler products. How did they come to design this or do that? What are the struggles? Recently I re-reviewed The Safe Sippy and my daughter has taken a liking to this cup. I decided that I wanted to interview the [...]

Strange and random thoughts fill my head as I am trying to fall asleep at night.  A lot of times it’s about work and what I have to accomplish the next day.  Sometimes it’s about groceries or things that I need from the store.  And just recently it was about plastic.  The fact that plastic can be

With torrential rain and around 9,000 square miles of farmland / homes in Guangdong and southern China flooded; and as floods continue in the Midwest of the United States; Should contact lens wearers consider whether to take precautions against flood-related eye infections?

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar has issued a News Release including the information: “In recent months, BPA and phthalates have been detected in a wide variety of consumer products, including baby bottles, rubber-ducky bathtub toys, and Nalgene water bottles.” More from the News Release dated May 14:

Acclaimed writer Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbageland, takes the bottled water industry to task in her new book Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It. Royte examines our contemporary trash and water crises by looking at the culture and economy that have made bottled water a $60 billion dollar a year industry - despite the fact that our plastic waste is out of control.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Wednesday May 14 “will examine: 1) chemicals in plastics found in consumer products, specifically phthalates and BPA; 2) the health implications of these chemicals and their alternatives; and 3) federal government assessments