We’re proud of our own Riley Hoffer! Named 20 to Watch by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on January 31, 2010. Read more about it on Riley’s blog at www.cgkidz.wordpress.com
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Thursday To-Do:
U.S. Green Building Council – Central Branch Monthly Meeting
Featured Speakers: Danelle Hoffer of CynerGreen and Riley Hoffer of CG Kidz
They’ll share how they’re saving the world, one bottle at a time.
The U.S. Green Building Council – Central Branch will hold its monthly meeting, at 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Next Level Event (1400 W. Markham) in Little Rock. This month’s topic is historic preservation. Cliff McKinney, an attorney and USGBC-AR member will discuss:
■National programs & tax credits
■Historic structures in a green environment
■Restrictions for registered buildings
Members $18, Guests $20. For more information, contact Linda Smith at usgbcar@yahoo.com.
Recently Roby Brock of Talk Business in Little Rock, featured CynerGreen and then CG Kidz on two news segments. These segments are focused on “green” businesses in the state of Arkansas.
VIDEO CynerGreen on Fox News – Talk Business
VIDEO Fox News – Talk Business Feature on CG Kidz, Riley Hoffer
http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/358/1/Water-vending-machines.html
Watch for the release soon…
Following is a list of other “Just for Fun” holidays in the month of December!
1 Anniversary of Basketball. Use laundry baskets or plastic bins to create your own kid friendly basketball game. Play with balloons, soft balls or even balled up socks!
12 National Day of the Horse. Play with horse or pony toys, sing “Old MacDonald Had a Horse,” and teach kids to gallop like a horse!
16 Ludwig van Beethoven’s birthday (1770). Introduce your children to one of the world’s greatest composers. Listen or download music at amclassical.com.
25 Christmas Day. Celebrate Jesus’ Birthday with a birthday cake and party hats or balloons. Take time to sing happy birthday to Jesus during your family Christmas celebration.
26 National Thank-You-Note Day. Even very young children can make thank you notes for gifts received at Christmas. Type a short thank you in a big bubble font and let them color it in. Or have them color a piece of cardstock and then attach a picture of the child with the gift.
31 New Year’s Eve. Spend some time as a family talking about and looking at pictures of favorite events or activities of 2009. Thank God for good times and ask his blessing on 2010.
November 23, 2009 – Momsrising.org
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing BPA, and they will release their recommendations next week. The more of us working together right now to finally rid food containers of toxic BPA, the better.
That’s why we’re partnering with CREDO Action on this last-minute push to keep our food safe. There’s nothing quite as good as doubling down to increase the odds of getting toxics out of our food containers.
It’s time for action. Join us in signing CREDO Action’s petition to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg urging a ban of BPA in all food packaging!
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/fda_no_bpa/
Did you know that Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been implicated in everything from miscarriages to cancer to sexual dysfunction? And it can be found in your food containers! BPA is in a broad range of food packaging including baby bottles, water bottles, almost all soda can liners and many other types of packaging.
Make no mistake, BPA gets into our food: Consumer Reports and the Environmental Working Group have both studied the issue and found BPA in many of the canned products they tested, including infant formula, vegetables, soda and soup. And we are what we eat. BPA is present in detectable levels in over 90% of Americans’ bodies.
Hundreds of studies have confirmed the dangers of even low-level doses of BPA. The risks are severe enough that the prestigious Endocrine Society released a special statement last summer explicitly warning that low-level exposure to BPA can adversely affect female and male reproduction, thyroid function, and metabolism, and could even increase obesity. 1
There is already overwhelming evidence that BPA is dangerous to our health. It has no place in our food, or our children’s food, even at the lowest levels. It’s time for the FDA to put people’s safety above corporate profits. When the FDA releases its BPA review on November 30, the agency should call for an immediate ban on the use of BPA in any and all food packaging, including baby bottles and can linings, and should further require companies to fully test and disclose the nature of all chemical ingredients used in food packaging and linings.
Let the FDA know it’s not OK for bottles or food packaging to contain dangerous chemicals. Tell FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg that enough is enough, join us in signing CREDO Action’s petition, which they’ll deliver to the FDA.
See Riley of CG Kidz featured on Pottery Barn Teen this month!
CynerGreen is proud to recognize the founder of its non-profit, CG Kidz, Riley Hoffer.
Women exposed to the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy give birth to girls who exhibit unusually aggressive and hyperactive behaviors by age two. That’s the finding from a study by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill that measured the BPA levels in the urine of 249 Ohio women at three stages—during pregnancy at 16 weeks and 26 weeks and following birth. When the children turned two, their behavior was evaluated using the Behavioral Assessment System for Children-2 (BASC-2).BPA is found in many common plastic items, from bottles to canned food lining to water pipes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 93% of U.S. residents have detectable levels of BPA in their urine.
This study—published October 6, 2009, in Environmental Health Perspectives, was the first to look at the link between prenatal BPA exposure and childhood behavior. Early exposure to BPA during pregnancy looks like it may negatively impact the baby’s developing nervous system—and have a particularly behavior-altering impact on growing girls.
“Girls whose mothers had higher BPA exposure were more likely to act like boys than girls whose mothers had lower BPA levels, especially if the exposure was seen earlier in pregnancy,” said lead study author Joe Braun, a doctoral student in epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. “Boys’ behavior did not seem to be affected, although there was some evidence of increased internalizing scores among BPA-exposed boys.”
The researchers do not know why boys seem so much less affected by exposure to the chemical.
November 2, 2009
Reported by Brita Belli, emagazine.com
SOURCES: Environmental News Network; UNC News
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