I read a few days ago that Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band and participant at the recent Live Earth concert uses cloth diapers for his infant son August, who he says is being raised green. According to Matthews he uses cloth diapers because "diapers are number 3 piece of garbage" in the landfill waste stream. This is starting to be a trend among celebrity parents. Anna Belknap of CSI New York is a Fuzzi Bunz fan. So are Brad Paisely and his wife Kimberly Williams of Father of the … [Read more...]
Drop That Bleach!
No surprise here but bleach is not very good for the environement. Adding chlorine (in conventional bleach) to an organic-rich waste stream (like rinse water) leads to the formation of environmentally hazardous byproducts, such as dioxins. Dioxins are carcinogenic. But if chlorine is bad then how do you get your laundry looking bright and white? Well, truthfully I am not so concerned with my duds looking super pearly but I think the following product has potential just the same. Drop that … [Read more...]
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