You've got to check out this creative new awareness and action campaign from Seventh Generation. They've created an interactive site that lets the user create a baby to crawl to Washington D.C. to demand chemical reform.
It's the Million Baby Crawl. You've got to love the opening statement: We cannot stand, but we've got to stand for something.
The site shares how our current chemical regulation (I should say lack there of) desperately needs to be rewritten to better protect our children from chemicals in everyday products. It also calls for what needs to be included in a chemical reform bill (and I wholeheartedly agree!):
"Here’s what we want the bill to do:
•Take quick action on the most dangerous chemicals.
•Require full information on the health and environmental hazards associated with all chemicals.
•Protect all people and vulnerable groups - including children and pregnant women – using the best science."
Go, Seventh Gen.
Right now, everyday products are the wild frontier of chemicals. Chemicals can be in products, and not listed on the ingredients. Chemicals that are known carcinogens. And in many cases, the ingredients that are listed are unsafe. Phthalates, Formaldehyde, dixoane, are just a few examples I've written about on this site. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has required safety testing on only 200 of the more than 80,000 chemicals on the market, many of which have been linked to serious health concerns.
Check out the Million Baby Crawl where you can learn more about this issue. Then take action to email Congress about protecting our families from toxic chemicals.
Want to be part of the conversation? Learn more? See what else we can do to support this? Join a Seventh Generation Twitter Party with 8 panelists (including yours truly!). Dr. Greene will be there (author of Raising Baby Green), as well as the CEO of Seventh Generation. Join us!
Here's the information: Join #gno Tues 10/27 (9-11pm ET) to chat about safe/environmentally responsible products w/ @SeventhGen #mbcrawl RSVP: http://bit.ly/41baFu
I hope to see you there. Twitter parties are a lot of fun (I've been to a couple #ecowed parties). Don't be intimidated. All you do is label your tweets with #gno, and we will have a running conversation. It's fast and furious, in real time.
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