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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of a very busy New Years Eve, slightly stressful, energetic day, I found this  small  simple  sweet  sunny  moment of bliss to watch the kookaburras from the balcony our family beach house. And laugh they did. Ahhhhhh. Happy New Year &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1916</link>
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		<title>For the love of books…My favourite 10 books of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the love of books… I grew up in a family of readers. Everyday from the age of 4, my mother would send us to our rooms to read for at least 1 hour. It didn’t matter that my brothers and I at that time couldn’t read. We all sat in silence and flicked through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1910</link>
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		<title>In the News: Peppermint Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Habitat: The Eco-system Within This is an article I am proud of and feel grateful to Peppermint Magazine for publishing it. I have also had quite a number of people email me as a result of the article expressing thanks and appreciation. I feel deeply honoured by their corrospondance to me. Click the link to read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1903</link>
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		<title>Salt of the Earth – Miessence certified organic Darling Salt Glow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, I make no apologies for being a Miessence warrior. I love the stuff. Raw. Potent. Certified Organic. Shipped fresh. But  the  Darling Salt Glow is very special product. When we asked Miessence Director Narelle Chenery to create a special product for the holiday season, we knew that she would deliver an exceptional treat – and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1886</link>
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		<title>Vaccinations &amp; some ethical musing….</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must confess: this has been a challenging to write about. The tension around vaccinating children is, how do I diplomatically say it &#8211; palpable. Look at any parenting site dedicated to openly discussing vaccination and the dialogues are brutal. It’s apparent that the predatory instinct of the Wolf that lurks behind any good mother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1878</link>
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		<title>Talking to Children: She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the  many challenges of being a parent is talking to our children about the terrible problems happening on earth today &#8211; that surely need to be solved by adults, but impact our children profoundly&#8230;.and will do even more so in years to come if we don&#8217;t change our current course of action. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1858</link>
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		<title>Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s Toxic Tub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the release of the  Campaign for Safe Cosmetics report,  Johnson and Johnson have aggreed to reformulate its flagship baby shampoo to remove chemicals that release formaldehyde. The company released a statement stating they are no longer introducing new products with formaldehyde-releasing preservatives and they have reduced their use of the chemical by 60% in the US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1841</link>
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		<title>Formaldehyde-releasing chemicals in Australian Johnson&#8217;s baby shampoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While researching overseas earlier in the year, I worked with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics on a camapign targeting Johnson and Johnson baby products. The campaign purchased (I did the Australia and Indonesian section of this) and reviewed labels of the Johnson’s &#8216;No More Tears&#8217; Baby Shampoo sold in 13 countries to see if the products [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1830</link>
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		<title>PRESENTATION: Growing an organic business in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am priviledged to be doing a presentation with Alf Orpen on Saturday 26th of November in Brisbane. If you can get there, it will be awesome event! Alf is a entrepreneur activist, ethical investor, and developer of regenerative businesses. He is a founding director of several enterprises which have achieved annual revenues ranging from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1819</link>
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		<title>Conscious community: Birthday blessings and a new vege patch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating your own homegrown tomato. Since journeying back to Australia and emersing ourselves in everyday Brisbane living again, I have found myself yearning for connection with nature, health and self &#8211; yearing for community (It seemed so much easier when we were living on farms, tipis and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1790</link>
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		<title>Antioxidents Explained!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Antioxidents? Free radicals? I bet you have heard of them, but may not know exactly what they are and how they operate in your life. This short video by Narelle Chenery from Miessence is a gem. It explains (in just a few minutes) how we accumulate free radicals from environmental toxins and poor food choices, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1774</link>
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		<title>ABC Interview on Toxics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interview I did with the ABC last week about changes going on the chemical regulations in Australia and generally about chemicals and the human body generally. It&#8217;s about 9 minutes long. Have a listen&#8230;CLICK HERE]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1766</link>
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		<title>Organic Farm Share Bounty!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup&#8217; [Wendell Berry] Jase and the girls went to the farm on the weekend (I stayed home and completed a presentation for the Australian Public Health Conference on the lack of protective policies in the area of children&#8217;s environmental health. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1745</link>
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		<title>Why would I hit someone I love? The issue of spanking children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever came of violence, but more violence? I was listening to B105 FM morning radio last week . The presenters of the show Labby, Stav and Abbie, were discussing research about the act of spanking (smacking) children. Abbie, being pregnant, said that she thought that smacking was an acceptable parenting practice – as did the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1737</link>
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		<title>Establishing Children’s Chemical Policies for your organisation [Part 2]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And here is a more generalised policy about chemical exposures and human health&#8230;. Environmental Exposures and Human Health Policy [Draft] The Public Health Association of Australia notes that: 1. We are living in a time of large scale and high volume industrial and manufactured chemicals. Global chemical production has escalated from around one million tonnes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nontoxsoapbox.com/?p=1727</link>
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