The Green Parent

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by Charndra Josling You can gradually reduce the carbon footprint of your baby with Baby Pottying or Elimination Communication. (Did you see the word “gradually” in that sentence?)   Gradually is there because you can ease into EC slowly, taking baby steps to gain your confidence and discover some EC tools with your baby to [...]

by, Lisa Cain, PhD, co-founder of Babyfood101.com Having a new baby can really test the Greenest of parents.  Lack of sleep, combined with lack of time leads many parents to buying packaged baby food.  Jars of baby food can certainly make life easier, and are a great solution for time-stressed parents.  But, they aren’t green. [...]

Does your backyard need a rain garden?  These lovely little features are a great way to utlize the runoff from your roof and reduce the amount fo water entering sotrm drains.  Big or small, rain gardens also help to reduce water pollution by trapping sediments and excess nutrients before they hit waterways.   So what’s [...]

So, I was sitting outside with my family yesterday when my husband and I suddenly heard a very loud buzzing sound.  We looked up and saw a swarm of bees.  I don’t mean one or two bees…I mean a real bona fide swarm of bees.  I didn’t stick around to count them one by one, [...]

This past weekend was out local town’s Earth Day celebration.  As part of the festivities, I built this solar oven from a pizza box and handed out yummy smores made from solar energy.  My girls (ages 6 and 3) were easily able to help with this project and after assembling the materials, we had it [...]

watch the proposal downloadable films iron man online Ah coffee. You either love it or you hate it. I’m not a big coffee drinker myself (I get my morning buzz from tea or soda!) But my husband rarely goes an hour with a cup o’ brew in his hands. So I’m always buying coffee, and [...]

Oddly enough, did you know that this week is actually National Egg Salad week?  And it’s no wonder.  Now that Easter and Passover are behind us, most of us are looking in the fridge to find an overabundance of hard-boiled eggs.  Should you eat them or toss them?   movie burlesque on dvd According to [...]

Welcome to another edition of  Waste-Free Wednesday!  Last week, I wrote a post on recycling electronics and for today’s waste-free Wednesday I’d like to take a look at the recycling of one e-gadget in particular…the cell phone.   Apparently, it’s National Cell Phone Recycling Week (who knew?) which is a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection [...]

A few days ago I wrote a post about my concern regarding the presence of known carcinogens like formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane in children’s baby bath products. I sent my post, highlighting my concerns directly to Johnson & Johnson, a giant in the personal care industry and a company that claims to put the safety of [...]

There is a lot of buzz going around these days about Johnson & Johnson’s new “Big Bubblin Star” campaign to promote their latest line of baby’s bubble bath.  The timing on this campaign is interesting, as it follows right on the heels of a recently released safety report, , compiled by the  that cited several Johnson & [...]

by Jennifer L. DeLeo, PCMag.com Consumer electronics—including TVs, computers, peripherals, audio equipment, and phones—make up almost 2 percent of the municipal solid waste stream, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This percentage may seem small and inconsequential, but the quantity of electronic waste is steadily rising. In fact, the EPA estimates that the number of obsolete [...]

It’s Waste-Free Wednesday again, and this week’s edition is For Ladies Only as we look at ways to green that oh so lovely time of the month that for various reasons we all either love or hate (or sometimes both!) We’ve all seen the warnings on tampon boxes about toxic shock syndrome (TSS). It’s occurrence [...]

Finally, spring has sprung!  Are you ready to plant so seeds with your little ones?  You don’t need a bunch of store-bought seed starters and supplies to grow plants indoors.  Here are some great seed starter projects that use recyclables instead. Newspaper Take a sheet of newspaper and fold it in half so that it’s [...]

My girls have entered a picky stage of eating which I’m told may well last the remainder of their childhood years. Truth be told, my eldest daughter has never been very adventurous when it comes to meal time. If the adage, “you are what you eat,”  is true, then she is a buttered noodle with [...]