Green Moms Carnival Says: Prevent It, Already!

Every month a few of this country's impressive green mom bloggers identify a single topic to write about, each on their own blogs but (thankfully) posted all in one place as the Green Moms Carnival. It's a great way to keep tabs on what this community of thoughtful, informed mothers are thinking on the important environmental issues that affect our families. In past months, they have written about topics such as greening our schools, combating holiday commercialism, and global warming, to name a few.

This month's topic is of special interest here at EWG since they tackled the novel concept of prevention in U.S. environmental policy, the logical but oft-overlooked notion of first doing no harm. These well-spoken environmentalists each write a letter to President-Elect Obama, encouraging him to take the leap and adopt a prevention-based environmental policy agenda. Diane of Big Green Purse fame even started an online forum called The Prevention Agenda, where citizens can share ideas about preventing toxic exposures, pollution, and global warming.

All of the letters are interesting, perhaps especially so for policy and law makers who should be gauging the mood and needs of their constituents. As a mom of two young kids who sees the Kid Safe Chemicals Act as our best chance to inject an ounce of prevention into our currently abysmal chemical policies, I was drawn to the letters that focused on the need for chemical policy reform, as Enviroblog readers might also be.