“THERE WAS ONCE a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings…” said Rachel Carson in her eco-book, Silent Spring, written over 40 years ago.

What has changed?

On Earth Day in 1970 President to be Gerald Ford said “We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our enivronment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago…we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.”

Please believe that it is never too late……

What do we do? Where do we go from here? In a recent survey of the Environmental Working Group the following statistics were published:

*287 chemicals found in umbilical cord blood taken from 10 babies born in August and September 2004

*212 of the total number of chemicals found were banned or severely restricted in the US

*47 were common consumer product chemicals such as pesticides and fire retardants.

As Chief Seattle said over 100 years ago, “What we do the earth we do to ourselves.”

What’s a mother to do? Read labels. If you don’t what an ingredient is, or it sounds like a chemical compound, don’t buy it. Don’t eat it. Support organic farmers and sustainable agriculture. Make fewer choices based on convenience. Think of the next generations and the effect on the Seventh Generation from today.