Twenty years ago, I was waking up early to type, just like I am this morning. As early as third grade, my best friend and I wrote and published a “newspaper” for our class, reporting on such scintillating and crucial stories as who was sliding on the ice at recess (complete with illustrations…never a talent [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Call to Action'
10 Minutes and Popsicles for Lunch: I’m Fed Up –Are You?
February 10th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Call to Action
See Katie Write Letters
October 4th, 2011 · 23 Comments · Call to Action
I’m a former elementary school teacher. Ever since I was a child, I’ve always taught something to someone, whether it was my little brother against his will “playing school,” my students when I had a bona fide paid teaching job at a Catholic elementary, or my children when I became a mom. Now I type [...]
Monday Mission: Be an Advocate
October 3rd, 2011 · 22 Comments · Call to Action, Monday Missions
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to advocate for change. Make SOMETHING happen this week that you care about, in any arena. Impact Ratings: – your call Level of Commitment: Making Strides I find more and more that I am deleting online petitions and recycling envelopes from charities before I even open them. [...]
Tags: Call to Action·monday mission
Cereal: “One of the Healthiest Breakfast Choices”
October 3rd, 2011 · 83 Comments · Call to Action
Does General Mills market their cereals appropriately to kids? I received an email from a long-time reader this weekend, and it fit perfectly with my already-planned Monday Mission on being an advocate. I just had to share it with you, in her words: (photo source) This past Monday I received an appalling email from the [...]
Tags: Call to Action·cereal
Sign, Buy, Free & Win: Around the Blogosphere this Week
July 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Call to Action, What to Buy
Sign this. I’ve been ranting about the evils of triclosan and how it drives me mad that Bath and Body Works includes it in everything for years now. (Here’s a letter some of us sent to B&BW two summers ago before school started. And since we’re coming up on back-to-school time – no, we’re not!!! [...]
Tags: antibacterial·antibacterial soap·Call to Action·letter-writing·triclosan
Triclosan FDA Update on Antibacterial Products
April 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Call to Action, Cleaning
You knew I couldn’t keep quiet about this. Just three weeks ago, I was telling you to get the triclosan out, and from the moment I started Kitchen Stewardship I’ve been passionate about getting the word out that antibacterial is bad stuff. Now it’s in the news and under fire. In one on my first [...]
Tags: antibacterial·antibacterial soap·Call to Action·FDA·triclosan
