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Find out how you can support hurricane relief efforts here. The people of Puerto Rico still need our help. When kids came into the picture, everything I read made me think “Yes, you are right, You are right.” Everything we now know about the developing brain and young children reminds us that the first things, even in utero, that you introduce into their little fragile developing systems bear an outcome later on.” Being naturally sort of slovenly, I had to sit up and pay attention, because I really think about my work most of the time. So I was very conscious to try to do the right thing and do well by our kids.
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I became interested in all these things when I was consciously feeding a baby and had a sense that everything you do is going to have an outcome further down the road. Speaking to Gordon about how she got into environmental health activism, she told OnEarth: “Humans are very self-interested.
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After NRDC published the ignominious Alar report, which detailed the dangers of toxic pesticides, she worked with Wendy Gordon to create Mothers & Others, a campaign to rally citizens in the fight for tougher pesticide standards. Meryl Streep’s move towards activism began in the 80’s, when the 17-time Academy Award nominated actress began advocating for the Natural Resource Defense Council to raise awareness for environmental issues. Photo: Dick Thomas Johnson/Flickr Meryl Streep