Organically Growing

The offical blog of HappyGreenBaby.com

Bonkers for Bamboo June 30, 2008

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When I think of bamboo, I think about the stalks of “lucky bamboo” that I have in my living room – growing strong, tall and brilliantly green, despite the fact that I only remember to fill the vase with water about every 3 months or so. Turns out the brilliant folks at Bamboosa are taking this fast-growing (renewable) resource and making the coziest damn baby clothes you’ll ever find (and that’s saying something).

Bamboo is a great choice when you’re looking for eco-friendly fabrics: It requires very little water and can survive drought conditions, (like my living room) as well as flooding. Bamboo’s natural anti-bacterial agents means it can be grown without pesticides or chemicals. Plus, it’s 100% biodegradable.

I’ve known many a baby to bask in the silky softness of a bamboo onsie and my friend Molly (a new mom) swears the Bamboosa hooded towels are “the best.” And considering how much research she does, I think that’s a killer endorsement.

 

What We’re All About June 27, 2008

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In a nutshell (an organic nutshell, that is) Organic Growing is a blog all about living our lives, and raising our babies, as friendly to the Earth as we can be.

For some of us, “living green” means composting every scrap of a leftover lunch and making organic baby food from scratch. For others, its enough to be using a non-toxic toilet bowl cleaner and recycling the milk jugs (who has time for toilet scrubbing?). For all these shades of green (evergreen or lime?), the point is that we are building a greater awareness our choices make on the Earth.

Raising a baby can pose a whole new series of challenges for eco-conscious folks. Your new little bundle of joy requires a lot of stuff (diapers, clothes, bottles, crib bedding, nursery furniture, towels, bubble bath, more diapers), but you’re concerned about leaving the earth a better place for your little Nobel-Prize-winner-in-training, so you don’t want to become some sort of crazed consumer, filling your home with crap that’s bad for you, baby and the earth.

You know what you’d like to do, if you lived in an ideal world, and you were so damn sleep-deprived (using cloth diapers, making food, breast feeding exclusively) … but where do you begin??

So here we are, at the heart of what you’ll find in the Organically Growing blog: A start.

Check in with us periodically and you’ll find quick tips and helpful hints for adding a little green to your daily life. No eco-evangelism. No all-or-nothing predicaments. Just good, green ideas. Plus, we’ll be showcasing the coolest, eco-friendly baby clothes and gear you’ll find anywhere. Seriously cool stuff.

Tune in and, remember: Raising a happy green family is all about baby steps.