Carissa

The only chicken book available today that discusses protecting your chickens from lead-poisoning!

October 20, 2018October 20, 2018

Hey friends! My good friend Carissa Bonham (Creative Green Living) wrote a new book “Proven Techniques For Keeping Healthy Chickens” [including “101 all natural tips & tricks”]. Fun Fact: I collaborated with Carissa to create a section in this book about protecting your backyard flock from being lead-poisoned. We’re both pretty sure this is the…

My friend Carissa wrote a book!

April 9, 2017April 9, 2017

Carissa is my amazing friend – who has (nearly single-handedly) pulled me out of the funk I have been in over the past year (in the chaos following the surprise attack, decimation and near extinguishment of a huge chunk of my life’s work – the nonprofit I founded.) Carissa helped me set myself up as an Amazon Affiliate…

#GuerrillaXRFTesting @ Target! Vinyl T-Shirt Designs

March 20, 2017December 10, 2017

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Please check out this little video below that Carissa (from Creative Green Living) and I made, testing children’s t-shirts hot of the display shelf at Target! If you appreciate what I do & would like to support my advocacy work (including the XRF testing I do of consumer goods) please consider clicking through to Amazon from one of my…

#GuerrillaXRFTesting: Recycled Tinted Glass & Cocktails!

March 5, 2017January 28, 2018

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Please check out this little video below that Carissa (from Creative Green Living) and I made, testing recycled tinted glass from Spain, hot of the display shelf at Target! As we say in the video, recycled glass is often very high in lead. I can’t say from looking at a product if it is going to leach…

#GuerrillaXRFTesting at Target: Riedel Vivant “Crystal”

March 5, 2017November 18, 2018

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Please check out this little video below that Carissa (from Creative Green Living) and I made, testing Riedel Vivant lead-free “crystal” wine goblets hot of the display shelf at Target! Click here to see these goblets on Amazon. Learn more about concerns for leaded crystal here. If you appreciate what I do & would like to support my advocacy…

#GuerrillaXRFTesting at Target! Corelle Dishes

March 5, 2017June 4, 2017

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Please check out this little video below that Carissa (from Creative Green Living) and I made, testing Corelle dishes hot of the display shelf at Target! The Bella Faenza white dishes were lead-free! Learn more about Corelle Dishes here & here. If you appreciate what I do & would like to support my advocacy work (including…

#GuerrillaXRFTesting: Target Threshold 2017 White Dishes (video)

March 3, 2017May 17, 2024

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For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe…

Dr. Mercola’s Coverage of the Green Sprouts Sippy Cup “Issue”

February 27, 2017

Click the image below to read Dr. Joseph Mercola’s coverage of the Green Sprouts sippy cup situation. Dr. Mercola has made a few errors in his post and we let him know about this, hopefully he will update it soon! This story is from his website on Feb 27, 2017 Click here to support my…

My original letter to the makers of the Green Sprouts sippy cup, following my findings of Lead paint on their glass insert.

February 10, 2017December 13, 2020

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Newly manufactured (2017) sippy cup: tested positive for 3,003 ppm Lead (using XRF technology). Originally published: February 10, 2017 Updated: 12/13/2020 Please scroll down to the bottom of this page to to see a full size PDF of my original letter (dated January 30, 2017) that was written to the manufacturer of Green Sprouts products…