Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care

Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care | Alan Greene | Praise for Dr. Greene

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Raising Baby Green...

	Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care Alan Greene Jossey-Bass, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care?from feeding your baby the best food available to using medicines wisely. Consumer advocate Jeanette Pavini includes information for making smart choices and applying green principles to a whole new universe of products from zero-VOC paints for the nursery, to pure and gentle lotions for baby?s delicate skin, to the eco-friendly diapers now in the marketplace, as well as specific recommendations for hundreds of other products.

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Great Book!

As parents of 2 young girls, my husband and I decided that we should do more to preserve the environment for our children and our children's children. Starting our girls at an early age was important to us. This book is a great resource and has given us the tools to beging making much needed change in our daily habits and routines.

Praise for Dr. Greene

This is my favorite book on this topic! I am the Co-Founder of Pregnancy Awareness Month and the Co-Director of PureStyle Living, as well as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Mother of a 3 year old. I am so happy that Dr. Greene has written this necessary and incredibly helpful book. This will be on my MUST BUY LIST for all of my friends and family that are pregnant or newly parenting. It is wonderful that in the last 3 years since I was pregnant that the information and the access to safer and less toxic products (not to mention organic baby food) has increased by 300% (my own personal statistic, based on a sample size of my own experience). To me this book is the best go-to book out there on this topic, and the most comprehensive. Thank you Dr. Greene for writing this and for your constant and consistent efforts to make the world a safer and healthier place for children and their parents.

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Isn't Thrift a Green Quality, too?

Raising Baby Green was easy and quick to read and is a book I will keep around simply for the fact that Dr. Greene has put together an impressive resource guide of websites where one can find lots of information on greening one's life and home. I'm sure this book will be a great reference in the future when I'm looking to buy something, that being said, I had two problems with this book.

First, after about the second chapter this book starts to read like an advertisement to buy buy buy! For example, there is repeated references to bringing you own organic cotton sheets to wherever you give birth and using them to replace the sheets at the hospital/birthing center. Now call me pragmatic, but 300 count organic cotton sheets cost between $125-$175 for my bed, thus, these are not the ideal sheets TO GIVE BIRTH ON. They will be ruined and I know when I'm expecting a baby I don't generally have $175 dollars to throw away. Nor does he address the impracticality of packing home sheets covered in birth mess for washing.

While Dr. Green does repeatedly say you can do as little or as much greening as you like in your home, he really does seem to push for more. There comes a point when ripping up your current hardwoods floors which are perfectly good to put down new floors made from cork which is a renewable resource stops being green. If you gut your entire house to "remodel green" the question becomes, are you really being green? Or are you just buying into the latest fad and wasting valuable, usable resources?

This green baby guide seems to have bought into our consumer culture hook, line and sinker, which is the reason I was going to give it 4 stars, but I dropped that down to 3 stars when I ran into my second problem with this book: Mis-information.

On page 248 there is a section titled "How to Drive Green." Two of the suggestions given are changing your air filter (which he says will save you $130 in fuel economy) and filling your tank at night. Now if you google "10 gas saving myths" you will find several articles about, well, gas saving myths and both of these are on there. Neither filling up at night nor changing your air filter really increase you fuel economy.

Green goes on further to say that filling up at night, "decreases evaporation during pumping, so anything that escapes won't be cooked in to the ozone." So, those fumes I see/smell when I pump gas at night don't go into the ozone? Because it's night? So . . .where do they go? To the pub for a beer?

If Greene has mis-information about fuel economy in his book that can be disputed by a simple google search, it makes me wonder what else he got wrong.

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Just use the Internet

Unless you hate the Internet, just do research online for free instead. I didn't read anything in here that I couldn't have found on the Internet.

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