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Buying Organic Baby Clothes Helps Reduce Pesticide Use

by Nicola Temple on March 5, 2012

in Kids

Choosing to buy organic baby clothes is a big step to supporting eco friendly farming practices and reducing the widespread use of pesticides. To understand why, we have to start with the story of the most commonly used baby clothing fabric of all…cotton. Cotton fabric accounts for half the fiber worn in the world. After [...]

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Choosing to use cloth diapers can be the single best decision you can make for the environment when there’s a new baby in the house. Organic cloth diapers, in particular, are made from resources grown responsibly and without nasty chemicals. My husband and I used cloth diapers for our son, and I’ll admit that it [...]

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Composting For Kids Is More Fun With Wrigglers

by Nicola Temple on February 8, 2012

in Kids

Let’s face it, composting for kids comes down to taking smelly food scraps out to the back garden where you put it in a bigger pile of smelly food scraps, probably swarming with flies. Not exactly something they’re likely to tell their friends about at school. However, add into the mix thousands of wriggling writhing worms [...]

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I’ve been thinking about eco friendly lunch boxes lately. It started when I was putting away the plastic food containers my husband takes to work every day. They’re looking a little old and tattered and it occurred to me that they’ve been around awhile. Perhaps even pre-BPA concerns. So, I quickly got online and searched [...]

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When you first start feeding your baby solid food, you may wonder why you bothered paying a little more for organic when most of it ends up on you and the bib. However, there are a multitude of reasons why starting your baby out on organic solids is worth every penny. Obviously all the advantages [...]

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