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LIFE WITHOUT PLASTIC: The Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Avoiding Plastic to Keep Your Family and the Planet Healthy By Chantal Plamondon and Jay Sinha Foreward by Beth Terry, author of Plastic Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too Printed on FSC-certified paper and with BPA-free ink, LIFE WITHOUT PLASTIC: The Practical Step-by-Step Guide...

Chemical flame retardants are everywhere. Our furniture. Our homes. Our bodies. Yet they don’t seem to stop fires. They do, however, seem to make us sick. TOXIC HOT SEAT takes an in-depth look at a nexus of money, politics and power – and a courageous group of firefighters, mothers, journalists, scientists, politicians and activists as they fight to expose w...

SLOW DEATH BY RUBBER DUCK: How the Toxicity of Everyday Life Affects Our Health is the landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life and is now updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie’s second book,Toxin Toxout. It’s amazing how little can change in a decade. In 2009, a book tra...

The Environmental Working Group’s mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive consumer choice and civic action. We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. We work for you. Do you know what's in your tap water? ...

We fight for strong chemical policy, work with retailers to phase out hazardous chemicals, and educate the public about ways to protect our families from toxic chemicals. Our mission Policy: Strong federal and state policies to protect the public from toxic chemicals. Retailers: Transform the marketplace through corporate policies to substitute safer chemica...

STINK! When filmmaker, Jon Whelan purchases pajamas for his daughter, the horrible smell they emit sends him on a path to find out the cause of the odor. As Jon gets to the bottom of the odor he uncovers a lot of information about the chemical industry that most people don't know about.  The movie features Brandon Silk, a teen with a life-threatening allergy...

The Human Experiment lifts the veil on the shocking reality that thousands of untested chemicals are in our everyday products, our homes and inside of us. Simultaneously, the prevalence of many diseases continues to rise. From Oscar® winner Sean Penn and Emmy® winning journalists Dana Nachman and Don Hardy.  The Human Experiment tells the personal stories of...

For over 25 years, we have been the leading science-based policy and advocacy organization working to prevent breast cancer by eliminating our exposure to toxic chemicals and radiation. Our focus is on the intersection of breast cancer prevention and environmental health. Mission: Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP) works to prevent breast cancer by eli...

This book holds a special place in my  heart. Alexx Stuart is my mentor and friend. I truly love her nonjudgmental, practical approach to becoming more low tox. I have taken many of her online courses and her Low Tox Method course, is where I got my Low Tox Coaching license.  I am partial, but I thing you will love this book! Inside Low Tox Life, you’ll disc...

THE STORY OF PLASTIC takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. Spanning three continents, the film illustrates the ongoing catastrophe: fields full of garbage, veritable mountains of trash, rivers and seas clogged with waste, and skies choked wi...

Toxic Beauty is a documentary feature film with exclusive access to scientists, lawyers, advocates, regulators, politicians, a dynamic whistle blower, survivors and women who have lost their lives. It follows the class action lawsuit against J&J and the plaintiffs, personal stories of women fighting for justice in a race against time with this deadly disease...