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Last minute holiday shopping: A green, ethical, and fun guide
The Green Mama gives a few tips for shopping green, ethical, and last-minute
No worries, I am not one to lecture about leaving shopping to the last minute. I am pretty sure it is the only shopping my family ever does. It seems to be made worse by my family’s disdain of typical consumerism. Yet, to handmake all the gifts I so desperately want to bestow on the teachers, friends, family, and many other loved ones I know, I would have needed to start months ago. And, I didn’t.
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Mama To Mama: The Minimalist Diaper Bag
The new year is a time for resolution and transformation. And the middle of January is a time for giving up on all your goals and resolutions…. I often find this true for myself, unless my particular resolution is actually making my days easier and more enjoyable. Welcome to my only resolution that has truly…
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Cloth Diapering 101: Updated.
Cloth diapers. It might be the thing that the parents in my Green Parenting 101 class are most curious about and have the most MIS-information about. As one student asked looking at my display table, “That cute thing is a CLOTH diaper?” Indeed, cloth diapers aren’t the ugly, bulky things held together by safety pins that many of us grew up with.
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Cast iron pans: safe and effective?
Dear ‘Cooking Safe with’ Julie: I regularly bring Chef Ellen King to talk with The Green Mama Cafe and she has taught us a lot about cast iron. She recommends them as the BEST pans with which to cook. I have looked for more information and everything I find suggests that not only are they…
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Can I recycle my baby’s carseat?
Dear D.: Carseat recycling is possible and of course it is preferable to throwing the plastic, metal, and material into the garbage where it takes landfill space and can leach flame retardants, plasticizers, and even heavy metals. Unfortunately, the alternative is recycling and there are few places that recycle them. I called one of these…
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Cloth diapering 101 (these aren’t your mama’s cloth diapers)
Cloth diapers. It might be the thing that the parents in my Green Parenting 101 class are most curious about and have the most MIS-information about. As one student asked looking at my display table, “That cute thing is a CLOTH diaper?” Indeed, cloth diapers aren’t the ugly, bulky things held together by safety pins that many of us grew up with.
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