If you’re sick of chemical cleaners that pollute the planet and our bodies, then Seventh Generation would like your help to crack down for stronger standards on toxic chemicals. Seventh Generation’s new initiative, the Million Baby Crawl is one way you can help make sure that America’s sadly outdated chemical law become tougher, in order to make the world safer for your children.

Why you should get involved:

33 years ago Congress passed that nation’s chemical regulatory law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TCSA). To date the Environmental Protection Agency has tested just 200 of the more than 80,000 chemical compounds developed [...]

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The Million Baby Crawl

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Dennis Weaver (1924-2006), a retired actor, environmentalist, humanitarian, has built a house whose walls are made of nothing but rubber tires and cans. It is very energy-efficient, as he himself discovered, powered mostly by solar panels and renewable energy.

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Dye-sensitized solar cells, or Grätzel cells, have been invented by Michael Grätzel in 1991. Grätzel is a chemistry professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and since now they didn’t have any commercial purpose, being developed just for research. The first company who is about to commercialize Grätzel’s cells is G24 Innovations, and the first use of the cells will be in a solar-powered backpack.

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