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I always love Kate's posts, but her most recent one has had me thinking, unusually hard. There has been a rapid influx in interest in green, sustainable living. It's been edging up, mounting for years, perhaps spurred by the wide-open information highway and the knowledge that the way we are living cannot last. For me, the urgency has been exacerbated by my son, this little being who will inherit my earth: the earth with cigarette butts and landfills and toxic clouds enshrouding major cities. I want to do something, I can't articulate it. Kate does it perfectly.
"We click our tongues and shake our heads back and forth, marvelling at the blatantly obvious dim-wittedness of generations past. Then we clean up after PB&J assembly with an electric blue liquid that comes with a skull and crossbones and a small print warning that says DANGER: THIS STUFF IS, UHHH, POISON."
Kate goes on to discuss the satisfaction she takes from her own small actions: using cloth diapers, stepping away from the toxic chemicals. Living vividly, inspired by her Liam.
I'm jumping on the bandwagon, or trying. Part of the problem, though, is finding stuff that doesn't have toxic crap built in. It's there, increasingly, but still can be hard to find. That's why I love websites that carry nothing but the good stuff, and Grass Roots is a fabulous website for totally green products for the whole family. The baby section is especially stellar: everything from bedding to disinfectant.
I'm bookmarking it, and using it.
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11-03-2007 @ 7:33PM
sweetsalty kate said...Thanks so much for passing on Grass Roots. I should add - I don't feel like I'm succeeding much at all in detoxifying our house and family. We've got a really long way to go .. but I appreciate so much hearing from other moms and dads who are trying the same. I've learned about so many alternatives - and gotten bottomless inspiration - from the comments on this post. Thanks!
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11-04-2007 @ 1:25PM
Jen said...Here is another green cleaning site: http://www.squidoo.com/safecleaning
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11-12-2007 @ 1:59PM
samantha said...i use all of this stuff. check out these adorable organic baby clothesfrom uncommonly cute. the "world peas" tee is the best.
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