HBR — Women are Better Leaders? (!)
Harvard Business Review hedged its bet last week. The conclusions that rose out of research by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, showed that in “leadership attributes” women did a better job than men. Yet when the article was posted, someone (HBR or Jack&Joe) put a question mark at the end of the title — “Women are Better Leaders”? throwing it out there for debate vs. a conclusion based on research. (The original report title assigned was Women Do it Better than Men) Why the question mark? Why not an explanation...
read moreGreen Mom Carnival: Toxic-Free Homes with a Soda Stream
Lori Alper, reformed lawyer and full time Groovy Green Livin activist and mom is hosting this month’s Green Mom’s Carnival on how to keep toxins out of our homes. IN MY HOME: We swapped out our beverages and kicked multiple bad toxic habits: Sugar, BPA lined cans, plastic bottles, nasty soda chemicals, wasted processing water. We also saved travel time to the recycler. We bought a Soda Stream. It’s a game-changing product that can prevent a family of four from going through over 10,000 bottles and cans over five years....
read moreMay 8th: Time to Celebrate the Emerging/Merging Women of the World!
Take a gal pal to lunch. It’s time to celebrate the will of women! March 8th is International Women’s Day – a day to take pride in what has been accomplished once women took the tools of change into their own hands and spoke out for peace, healthy food, safe products, clean air for all, global support for all women, and so much more. This year’s IWD theme is “Connecting Girls. Inspiring Futures.” It’s a timely slogan considering that this year is also the Girl Scouts of American’s 100th...
read moreThe Rush to Get Limbaugh Out!
Many, MANY women (and thank goodness men, too) have weighed in on why Rush Limbaugh must go by the way of the Do Do, i.e. become extinct. For myself, his remarks put me over the top not because they were crass and slanderous, Rush has always been crass and slanderous, it was because the remarks were the last straw in a lifetime of putting up with the “boys will be boys” rhetoric, i.e. it’s ok to say and do anything as long as you nudge the kid next to you afterwards and say, “I was just joking…” Bullies are...
read moreThe Chemicals in Us and What You Can Do About it, by Katy Farber
Katy Faber put her body and life experiences to the test for Vermont. She donated her blood and DNA to see how BPAs, Mercury, fire retardants and other toxins were accumulating in her body. The report came back with both good and bad news, proving that some things you can control and change through personal choice, and other toxins must be changed through regulation or you will be exposed no matter how hard you try to avoid contamination. The free report is available for subscribers to Non-Toxic...
read moreThe Cumulative Effect of Shifting 20% of Your Food Buying Habit
Women buy around 93% of the groceries. Many of us are already making the choice to have less toxic food on our tables by buying local, fresh organics instead of BPA-lined canned food. Good for us. What we may not know, is the cumulative effect of that buying power beyond our households and how it can save a community or even a whole state. Here’s what shifting 20% to local food ($1 out of $5) could mean to Detroit, which is in line for a state-managed-takeover. Detroit needs every penny to survive after its population went from 2...
read moreTide Free & Gentle — Please Come Clean of 1,4-dioxane
Today Lori Alper of Groovy Green Livin’ is taking a stand for her family’s wash and loads of others… her full post here. Today’s the day. It’s time to join forces with Women’s Voices for the Earth, MomsRising and Healthy Child Healthy World, to demand that Procter & Gamble (makers of Tide) strip a harmful cancer-causing chemical out of Tide Free & Gentle®. Jenn Savadge posted the request over on Mother Nature Network, and other green moms from the Green Mom Carnival such as Deanna Duke, quickly...
read moreLet’s Skip the 1960s This Time…
Wow, 50 years have gone by and we’re still fighting for easy access and affordable birth control from a bunch of old guys who are making decisions on our behalf. Even if you don’t believe in global warming, the certainty of over-population and the unsustainable effects of a growing pollution which includes millions of starving children, needs to be addressed at (forgive me) conception. (UPDATE: As of 2.19.12 250,000 of us demanded that women must be allowed at the table when women’s health care is at stake.) What is...
read morePanera Cares — A Model for Shared Responsibility
When we think about sustainable businesses we normally think green first, but some businesses are stepping forward and creating a new pattern for social responsibility as well. Panera Bread is one of them with their Panera Cares cafe. “This is Proof positive that humanity is good. People are fundamentally good. Given the chance, they will do the right thing… Not everybody — there are bad people out there that will take advantage of it — but most people are fundamentally good… And the key to what we need to do,...
read moreSeed Money: The Growing of McDonald Poppy Ads
Here is outdoor advertising that women will love that will last longer than one of McDonald’s chemically-ladened burgers. While I’m not a fan of fast food, I do love creative thinking that also meets with Mother Nature’s expectations. It’s called seed bombing… planting seeds where you least expect them and then let time grow a roadside billboard. Brilliant. In this case McDonalds took it to a new level by using the California poppy, which as California’s state flower is illegal to dig up. No worries for...
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