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Ask the Green Mama: Alternatives to bleach and anti-bacterial hand soap in schools?

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Dear Green Mama,

I am the administrator for a preschool in Illinois. We are trying to green our school. I have read your Green Your Classroom article. I want to use a healthier alternative to bleach? What can I do? DCFS says I need to use anti-bacterial hand soap with the kids, but I know it is bad. Are they right?

—Green Administrator

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Green Cleaning in Schools: The Green Mama Guide to healthy, safe, clean schools

Posted by The Green Mama on Nov 14, 2011
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THE GREEN MAMA’S CHEAT SHEET FOR SAFER, HEALTHIER CLEANING IN SCHOOLS

You are a teacher or school administrator and you want to go green but aren’t sure where to start? The answer is probably right in front of your eyes: the soap next to the sink, the bottle of bleach for spraying down the tables, the window cleaner in the cabinet.

Three steps to a healthy, green, organic pregnancy

Posted by The Green Mama on Oct 24, 2011
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The Green Mama’s three steps to achieving the healthiest, greenest pregnancy


1.   Eat organic.

Pregnant women and children will especially benefit from eating organic food.

Composting is Sexy with the little hot box: The Red Dragon

Posted by The Green Mama on Oct 21, 2011
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Indoor composting made really simple: a love story between The Green Mama and The Red Dragon

This started out as a simple review: an electric-assist, indoor composter that everybody was whispering about.  But, then I fell in love.  I really do love that little red machine sitting in my kitchen nook right now. The Red Dragon is a composting appliance. Not everyone gets as excited about composting as I do, but maybe the would if they new the kind of impact it has. 

Natural flu protection for children: The Green Mama tries homeopathy

Posted by The Green Mama on Oct 17, 2011
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It's flu season in North America: are you protected?

Buddings Flexible Childcare: A New Approach to an Old Problem

Posted by The Green Mama on Oct 01, 2011
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 It didn’t take long after I moved to Vancouver to start hearing about all of the issues parents have with childcare here.  There isn’t enough of it, it is too expensive, and there is little diversity of options.

Safer Skincare for Children: The Green Mama guide to healthier, organic, "green" skincare for babies and children

Posted by The Green Mama on Sep 21, 2011
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 The Green Mama's Guide to Safer Skincare for Children

Children are vulnerable

Anti-bacterial hand soap and your child: a dirty clean?

Posted by The Green Mama on Sep 16, 2011
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It's school time again; and in every school bathroom in North America you can hear the "splat, splat" sound of anti-bacterial soap squirting onto the hands of school children everywhere. So, what does the science tell us about anti-bacterial products and just how bad are they for our children's health?

How to green your child's school: a guide to a healthier, greener classroom

Posted by The Green Mama on Aug 22, 2011
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Ideally every school setting would be green and healthy. After all, your child will spend 1/3 of his or her day there.  Studies show that more than half of U.S. schools suffer from problems related to indoor air quality (which is typically more polluted than outdoor air even in the best situations). Indoor air quality issues can affect teacher retention, student performance, (and ultimately) school funding.

Are mom's worried about the wrong things? How to keep your child safe in today's toxic world.

Posted by The Green Mama on Aug 10, 2011
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I’ve had a slew of Ask the Green Mama questions recently that boil down to this: What are real dangers and what are the imagined dangers of parenting? This is at the heart of most questions, isn’t it? What will really kill my baby and what is actually not worth the stress of the worry. 

Of course, much of this we just don’t know. Parenting is risky, because life is full of unknowns. Today’s science, however, is telling us much about where our worry line should be.

Here’s what we do know.

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