October 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Green Festival Features Organic Gardening and Urban Farming Pavilion

The 9th annual Green Festival returns to the San Fransicso Concourse Exhibition Center on Saturday, November 6th and Sunday, November 7th. The theme of this year's Green Festival, billed as the nation's largest sustainability event, is "Engagement" and the festival promises green shopping, great live music, "cutting edge eco-innovations", hands-on…

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Added by Carol Rossi on October 24, 2010 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Nation-wide movement to get antibacterial Triclosan out of schools

Hi everyone:

Thanks for inviting me to your Alliance discussion. I'd like to introduce the topic of antibacterial soaps being unnecessarily used in schools, and overuse of disinfectants and asthma triggering cleaning products in schools.

There's another mom who has worked with me in past years as a Parents for a Safer Environment member who is now working for the American Lung Assocation, whose job is to go to schools throughout the Bay Area and train students/teachers how… Continue

Added by Susan JunFish on October 8, 2010 at 12:05am — 1 Comment