Giveaway: Seventh Generation and The Million Baby Crawl

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Lolita Carrico

MBC Logo Giveaway: Seventh Generation and The Million Baby Crawl Here’s a fun and interactive way to help make change for our childrens’ futures: Seventh Generation along with environmental advocate Erin Brockovich and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of nearly 30 leading non-governmental organizations, have joined together to influence Congress to overhaul our nation’s chemical regulatory law.

Together they’ve launched the Million Baby Crawl, an effort to raise awareness about the nation’s badly outdated chemical laws and encourage parents and others everywhere to ask Congress to pass new stronger regulations.

Called the Kid-Safe Chemical Act, it requires that industrial chemicals be safe for infants and children and new chemicals be safety tested before they are put into products — makes a LOT of sense, right?

So here’s what you can do:

Create a Crawler, Be Entered to Win!

Head over the the Million Baby Crawl website and create your “crawler” — you can customize and name your crawler and enter to win a trip to Washington, DC. Not only that, we’re also giving away FOUR Seventh Generation Gift Kits (valued at over $40 each) to GLOSS Facebook fans who join the Million Baby Crawl!

To enter:

- First create your crawler on the Million Baby Crawl site

- Then, head to GLOSS’ Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/mygloss, become a fan if you aren’t already, and then post a note on our wall with your crawler ID (ex: http://www.seventhgeneration.com/million-baby-crawl?id=12550). You’ll get the link to your crawler in your email after you join.

We’ll pick four winners from those who are GLOSS fans and posted a note on our wall on November 30th! Easy!

Also, you can attend Crawl to Action Events on November 18^th in select cities. Check the Million Baby Crawl website for details.

Good luck and thanks for helping to make a safer environment for our children!

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Charli

Thanks ecoGLOSS for posting something about keeping our kids safe. I think making industrial chemicals safe for infants and children is something we can all get behind. Problem is: mandating more chemical testing, the kind being advocated by the Safer Chemicals coalition, will kill millions of animals, cost lots of money, and give use questionable results.

Many people and scientists agree that current legislation which regulates chemicals must be reformed. However, we should also be sure to reform the science that underlies these regulations—namely, the way in which toxicity testing is conducted.

Currently, toxicity testing is largely based on experiments in animals and uses methods that were developed as long ago as the 1930’s and 40’s; they and are slow, inaccurate, open to uncertainty and manipulation, and do not adequately protect human health. These tests take anywhere from months to years, and tens of thousands to millions of dollars to perform. More importantly, the current testing paradigm has a poor record in predicting effects in humans and an even poorer record in leading to actual regulation of dangerous chemicals.

Fortunately, many scientists have worked, and are working, on addressing these problems — and alternatives to animal testing exist in a powerful way. Chemical reform should not only modernize policy, but modernize the science that supports that policy. Let’s ensure Kids-Safe uses all the necessary tools to truly make our children, our environment, and animals safe.
Karen Gonyea

Count me in
Sherry E.

My crawler ID is: http://www.seventhgeneration.com/million-baby-crawl/?id=1280

and I am already a Fan on Facebook!