Photo by: Marek Wojtal
Late in 2007, just as the holiday toy-shopping season was ramping into high gear, some of the biggest stories coming out of the $20 billion per year toy industry weren’t about the latest innovations or the next hot property. Instead, just about every headline about toys sold in the United States concerned wave after wave of toy recalls.
The major culprit, by and large, was excessive amounts lead paint used on toys originating from Chinese toy manufacturers. A major question emerging in the wake of these …

By: Paul
Photo by: Piret Tamm
Several weeks ago I ran a post about the dangers of cell phones, especially in terms of the use of them by children. Ironically, about ten days later, the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute released a study essentially confirming some of the international science I had referenced in my post. Six days later, Larry King featured the issue on his show, interviewing a panel of experts about some of the findings and recommendations revealed in the University of Pittsburgh study. It seems like finally this issue …

Photo: Merve Toprak
This month we didn’t host a Blog Carnival due to vacation, but I did receive a couple of interesting articles nonetheless that I think a lot of people will find interesting.
The first is blog post about using disposable diapers: Celebrate Independence From Disposable Diapers posted at not the jet set. “Not the Jet Set” has been a past contributer to our blog carnival and runs an interesting blog.
Not the Jet Set might be interested in one of our articles, located over in the OrganicGreenMommy …