Articles tagged “Diapers”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Make Your Own Cloth Diapers and Baby Wipes By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Aug 20 2010 Cloth diapers are the perfect option for eco-minded parents. Here are instructions for making two styles of cloth diapers, as well as fabric baby wipes. + READ MORE

How to Go Green: Babies By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jun 1 2010 Bringing a new baby into your home is exciting, and the perfect time to go green. Find out how with our complete guide. + READ MORE

Homemade Cloth Baby Wipes Are Easy and Cheap By Marye Audet IN Home & Garden Oct 23 2009 Baby wipes are convenient but expensive and not very green. Get all the convenience with none of the expense with these easy to make cloth baby wipes and homemade organic solution. + READ MORE

Top 5 Ways to Survive the First Weeks of Green Parenting (with Sanity Intact) By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Oct 19 2009 As a new green parent, I'm rapidly realizing how the best laid plans can fall apart once the baby arrives. Here are a few of my favorite tips for the first few weeks. + READ MORE

Early Potty Training: Going Part-Time Diaper Free? By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Aug 21 2009 Potty whispering can help folks aim for a diaper free baby. But it can also help if you want to go part-time diaper free. + READ MORE

11 Things You Might Not Wanna Know (But Should Know Anyway) About Trash and Landfills By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 7 2009 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tells us that (landfills are ) "well-engineered facilities that are located, designed, operated, and monitored to ensure compliance with federal regulations." The concept is "to bury the trash in such a way that it will be isolated from groundwater, will be kept dry and will not be in contact with air." After some of the recyclables are sorted out of the trash, explains Sara Snow at TreeHugger.com, "the rest of the solid waste is dumped and, at the end of the day, covered with six inches of soil. + READ MORE

DIY Cloth Diapers By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Mar 4 2009 So you're thinking about cloth diapers.You can find directions for making an old sweater into a wool soaker (we love this uber-green DIY project!), or find patterns for basic cloth diapers or prefold diapers. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Diaper Dilemma By Mickey Z. IN Home & Garden Feb 18 2009 As you read this, some 95 percent of babies in America are doing their baby thing while wearing disposable diapers. 18 billion dirty disposable diapers tossed out each year— comprises 5 percent of landfill waste in the US. According the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a standard gel-filled disposable diaper takes roughly 500 years to decompose. In other words: Diaper Dilemma. + READ MORE

10 Disposable Things You Never Have to Buy Again By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 2 2009 One of our favorite green philosophies goes something like, "Less stuff = more good." While that seems simple enough, cutting back on the amount of stuff you use every day can be trickier than it sounds. One of the easiest ways to do this is to cut back on the disposable stuff you buy. Here are then things that you never have to buy disposable again. + READ MORE

Go Green Baby! Save Green Mommy! By Lynda Fassa IN Work & Connect Sep 25 2008 Going green doesn't cost more! Sometimes it costs a lot less...and when you make things yourself, from laundry detergent to baby wipes, you can be sure to avoid the questionable chemicals that might put baby at risk. Here's 5 ways to go green and save green with a little one + READ MORE

New Mom Melissa Joan Hart Goes Green for Her Children By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 3 2008 On a recent episode of Supper Club with Tom Bergeron Melissa Joan Hart discussed what going green means to her as the mother of two young children.Here are a few easy things the newly eco-conscious actress does in her daily life to reduce her burden on the planet: Ditch the paper coffee cups.When Hart hits the coffee... + READ MORE

Get Your Kids on the Toilet Early By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 10 2008 Maybe it's 'cause I don't have a kid yet, but this recent story from one of my closest friends and a new mom cracked me up. In the 1950s when nearly all kids used cloth diapers, 95 percent were potty trained by 18 months, but now that nearly 95 percent of kids are in disposables, only about 10 percent train by 18 months... + READ MORE

Can Baby Poo Be Green? By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jun 6 2008 I've known my friend Kirsten for over 10 years.There's a ton out there about this topic? Oh, and feel free to chime in by commenting below if you have any of your own solutions to diaper disasters in your household? More on eco-friendly diaper options: Solve the Diaper Dilemma: The Cloth Option Solve the Diaper Dilemma: + READ MORE

Find A Green Hospital By Dr. John Whyte IN Food & Health Jun 4 2008 You've probably noticed that many hospitals, especially newer ones, are moving away from the sterile, white walled, functional environments to warmer, inviting spaces that incorporate more color, natural light, comfortable furniture and elements of nature.Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to... + READ MORE

Introducing the Green Room With SuChin Pak! By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Jun 4 2008 Hey guys! Welcome to our little slice in the ever-expanding Green World. I know how cluttered the eco space can be these days, so I hope this column can be a place where together we can filter all that information, tell each other about cool new products, happenings and events and share our journey into a more eco-conscious life. + READ MORE

Solve Diaper Rash, Choose Calendula By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health May 2 2008 A friend called me this morning with the exciting news she's about to become a mom! Since she's adopting from Vietnam--and kids from Southeast Asia have a high propensity for eczema--she asked me for advice. + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: Elimination Communication and the Diaper-Free Movement By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Mar 26 2008 This is the last in a series of diapering options for babies (read the earlier posts on Safer Disposables and gDiapers, the Hybrid Solution), and it is by far the cheapest option: Using no diapers at all. Take Nicole, for instance, a mom from Mississippi who started out using conventional disposable diapers, but has... + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: Safer Disposables By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Mar 17 2008 This post is part of a series on choosing the best diapering option for your baby. Of course, this problem is goes away with frequent changing and a little fresh air on tiny tushies...but super absorbents work so well that often baby doesn't cry when wet, and hey, it can be a little tempting to let 'em sleep with it... + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: gDiapers, the Hybrid Diaper By Lynda Fassa IN Home & Garden Mar 13 2008 Lynda Fassa is Planet Green's babies and family expert.They know they are making a lot less trash, and they can work laundering the covers into a doable schedule in the building's shared laundry room-something they say they couldn't have done with 100 percent cloth. + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: The Cloth Option By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Mar 11 2008 This post is part of a series on choosing the best diapering option for your baby. First let's look at the environmental impact of that choice: Disposable diapers make up 5 percent of landfill waste in the United States.About 18 billion disposable diapers were discarded in America last year, and the average American... + READ MORE