Inour ongoing quest for healthier living and greener lifestyles, we utilize and review an enormouscollection of common information, research, science and wisdom to share with you.  This is by no means an exhaustive list: it’s acontinual “work in progress” that will be updated regularly.

Do You Know What Is In Your Products?

Non Profit Organizations

• The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of public health, and various other groups to protect consumers and workers by requiring the health/beauty industry to phase out the use of harmful chemical and replace with safer alternatives.
• Breast Cancer Fund is the leading national organization focused on identifying the causes of breast cancer and prevention.
  
• Environmental Working Group – providing environmental investigations to expose threats to your health and environment, and to find solutions.  Great link to current health related news items. Watch the 10 Americans presentation about pollution in people by Ken Cook, Executive Dir of EWG- A must see!
• Breast Cancer Action
• Commonweal is a highly regarded nonprofit health and environmental research institute.
• PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. They link varied group to form an international citizens action network.
• Natural resources Defense Council website provides tools, tips and information to better understand and protect our earth and it's natural treasures.
  
• Silent Spring Institute
• Not Just a Pretty Face
• Women's Health and Environment
• Cornell University: Breast Cancer and environmental Risk Factors
• Taking Precaution - Understanding the Precautionary Principal

• Body Burden – toxic chemicals permeate our bodies – we may inhale them, swallow them or absorb them through skin.  The term body burden refers to the total amount of these chemicals that are present in the human body at a given point in time. Biomonitoring & Body Burden Research

•  Children’s Health Environmental Justice (CHEC) is a national non-profit dedicated to educating the public about environmental issues that affect children’s health.  A great resource for everyone.  We love their “HealtheHouse” virtual tour.

• Students,  start and run PVC-free campaigns at your college or university, PVC Free toolkit by CHEJ. 

• The Story of Stuff
• Environmental Defence Fund:Teens and Toxic Chemicals in Products 

The Precautionary Principle

It is a willingness to take action before scientific proof is fullyestablished Precautionary action should be taken when an activity posesrisk to environmental or human health. On the grounds that furtherdelay will prove costly to society and nature and in the long term,selfish and unfair to future generations.   It is a willingness to take action before scientific proof is fully established.

• The Precautionary Principle in Action – a handbook written for the Science and Environmental Health Network
• The New Uncertainty Principle – article from Scientific American
• Precautionary Principle by Michael Pollan – article from NY Times Magazine, Dec. 2001 

Books
• Not Just a Pretty Face, by Stacy Malkan
• Exposed, by Mark Shapiro
• When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental  Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, by Devra Davis
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough
• The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time, by Elizabeth Rogers
• Wall Street Journals list of books to read up on the environment
• Ecofriendly Magazine-  101 Ways To Live Greener
• Beauty ala Green , by TTG campaign member, Erin Schrode

Articles

Many articles have been written about the health hazards linked to chemicals in our environment and products.

• Nail Salons Move to Avoid Using Toxic Chemicals , NY Times

• Everyday Chemicals May be Harming our Kids , CNN

• Living the Green Life, by Michelle Klahr, A TTG Board Member
• Well, Is it Organic or Not? , NY Times

• Toxin's Lurking in Men's Personal Care Products
• Down the Drain, by Tam High Student, Brooke Wenig
• What's in your beauty products: The Southerner
• 7 Ingredients to Ban in Your Bathroom
• National Geographic: Pollution Within
• Cornell University Video on Breast Cancer and The Estrogen Connection
• Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Safe Cosmetics

• Babies are exposed to Chemicals Before they are Born
• Age, cosmetics use related to levels of synthetic musk chemicals in blood
• Beyond Pesticides
• Beauty on Watch
• Pretty Green Brain blog: Green Washing
• Renata Helfman: Pretty Is as Pretty Does
• Eco Rich Connections: 30  Toxic Chemicals to Avoid/ identified by California
• Healthier Hygine, Web MD
• Scientific American: Saving Face: How Safe Are Cosmetics
• Beatuy Industry Secrets Investigated

• Chemicals to Avoid in your bathroom

• Web MD, Eco Friendly Beauty Products

• Pregnant? Reconsider using those cosmetics.

• What's In Your Make Up Bag
  

• Dying To Be Beautiful ?

• Common Chemicals: Breast Cancer Link?

• The LowDown on Mineral Makeup

• New Report: Women Dying To Be Beautiful 

•  Warning, What's in your make up bag, Oprah.com

• Toxic Teens: Common Cosmetics Chemicals Alter Hormones, Disrupt Puberty, Eco-Child's Play

•  Consumer groups fret over chemicals in teen cosmetics, USA Today

• How to Clean up your Life by Deirdre Imus and Diane Gurnsey

• Products derived from natural, nontoxic ingredients -- once seen as fringe -- are now mainstream , Los Angeles Times

• The Chemistry of Beauty

• Feature: Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon
  Environmental factors are herding girls into womanhood sooner than ever
  Pacific Sun
  By: Ronnie Cohen
• Should You Trust Your Makeup?
  New York Times
  By: Natasha Singer
• Cosmetics firms heed calls for organics

        The Boston Globe, May 26, 2008
        By: Susan Chaityn Lebovits

• Ingredients In Personal Grooming Products not FDA approved
  CBS News 4, May 21, 2008
  By: Lori Stein
• Not Just a Pretty Face, Conversation with Stacy Malkan
  ABC 7 Chicago News 4, May 15, 2008

Websites To Green Your Life
• US News and World  Report: 10 Ways to Save By Going Green
• Homeowners Resources
• SF Green Map

• The Green Life: Green Goods
  Offering everything you need for your home and body, featuring premier green lines as well as items from local businesses and artists.
• Tree Hugger – a great, “Green Lifestyle” filter  -- a resourceful site with information to find well-designed products and services that are modern yet also ecologically sensitive.

• The Green Guide Institute brings you objective and accurate web-based environmental and health information.
• BuyGreen.com- Offering green home and office environmental products

• Green Home Environmental Store – A great web-based environmental store and resource center.

• Organic Trade Association – a business association for the Organic Trade Industry.
•  Center for Science in the Public Interest 

• Cosmeticdatabase.com

• Greenoptions.com
• Green Girl
• Ecofabulous.com
• Sprig.com
• Idealbite.com
• Consumer Reports: Greener Choices
• Future Natural
• Sustainable Party
• The Nature of Beauty
• Shaping Youth
• Count Down Your Carbon