Actually, getting toxic chemicals out of your child’s life entirely is going to take some doing. You’ve got car emissions, non-organic foods, plastic toys and more to contend with. You shouldn’t also have to worry about your home cleaning and bath and body care products. However, a smart green parent should worry – A LOT.

Although most parents in the U.S. consider home cleaners pretty safe, most are anything but safe. In fact more the American Association of Poison Control Centers notes that 1.25 million kids younger than six years of age are unintentionally poisoned in the home each year by …read more

Starting today, choose five small products that make no sense from the earth’s perspective, and boycott. Forget they ever happened. Choose any five you like, but I’ll give you some ideas to start with.

Single serving cereal boxes – you know those ones your kids want. Just say no, but of course explain why.
Small hotel shampoo and conditioner. Can we say extreme plastic overuse. I can, “Extreme plastic overuse.”
Traditional cleaning wipes. Most are full of gross toxic stuff, plus, they add up. That’s a ton of garbage if even 50% of this country alone uses them on a daily basis. I …read more

Or your pet for that matter? Or you?
If you said, “Very few” then this is the week to change this. Our green audit this week is household cleaners. How to keep safer, greener cleaners around while tossing the worst of the worst.
Now, this isn’t to say that I’m going to let my son Cedar guzzle biodegradable dish washing granules. Yeah, they’re greener for the environment, but not a real delightful beverage. What I’m saying, is that on average, the typical household has far more dangerous cleaners than necessary. This week we’re going to look at other options and some that …read more

A while back at the b5media forum we got to talking about baby wipes. I don’t love them because there are better greener, non-toxic alternatives such as plain washcloths and water. Then the topic moved somehow to why it’s hard to be green.
It wasn’t a long conversation but Shai; one of the b5media team members got me thinking about how no one can be green all the time. Frankly, you’d have to a hermit in a cave to achieve perfect eco-sensibility and as I’ve mentioned before simply by being born you’ve used too much energy and you can’t take that …read more