Eco Fashion Hot Trend

Eco-designer for eco-conscious emerging eco-fashion movement is designer Linda Loudermilk. Her “luxury eco” line of clothing and accessories uses sustainably produced materials made from exotic plants including bamboo, sea cell, soya and sasawashi. The latter is a linen-like fabric made from a Japanese leaf that contains anti-allergen and anti-bacterial properties. Loudermilk also incorporates natural themes in each season’s line—her most recent one being an oceanic motif.

Green Products For Green Living

Green Products For Green House Cleaning- Open a window and let those pollutants out! Yet even in this season, when a vase of nice smelling flowers can fill a room with a lovely natural scent, many consumers stubbornly keep using synthetic room fresheners and fragranced cleaning products that are full of VOCs and other toxic chemicals. These can make our indoor air unhealthy, provoke skin, eye, and respiratory reactions, and harm the natural environment.

People think that if a freshener smells clean that it is okay. But, think again...... According to a study published in New Scientist in 1999, in homes where aerosol sprays and air fresheners were used frequently, mothers experienced 25 percent more headaches and were 19 percent more likely to suffer from depression, and infants under six months of age had 30 percent more ear infections and 22 percent higher incidence of diarrhea.

In choosing alternatives, however, consumers need to be alert to greenwashing. "Just because a product says it's natural doesn't mean it's nontoxic. It is important to make sure your products are non toxic cleaners.

As a consumer you might consider paying to offset the amount of CO2 in your day-to-day living produces as a way to erase—or at least clean up—your environmental slate.

Earth Friendly TreeHouse

Okay, Moms....If you are tired about worrying if the latest toy you have has lead paint. I have a great earth friendly playhouse that any child would enjoy! Here’s a smaller option for you, your kids, and their dolls to enjoy- this recycled wood treehouse from new online green retailer ReForm Rules School is made from recycled cherry and elder wood and stands 22″ tall. It’s easy to assemble and comes with retractable stairs, rope ladder, bucket and pulley, and three platforms for hours of doll (and human) fun!

Is Your Home Safe and Healthy?

Is Your Home Safe?
Cleaning products containing toxic chemicals are linked with asthma, allergies, behavior problems in children, and cancer. Pregnant mothers and their babies are especially vulnerable.

"We are conducting a vast toxicologic experiment in our society, in which our children and our children's children are the experimental subjects." pediatrician Herbert L. Needleman.

Cleaning products often contain harmful chemicals that are not listed on the label. Only 1% of toxins are required to be listed on labels. This is mainly because the products don't make any claims about safety. Companies can also classify them as "trade secrets" to avoid listing them. Many of the ingredients labelled "inert" are actually more toxic than the active ingredients.

When considering cleaning products, they should be:
* Biodegradable
* Formulated without dye
* Nonflammable
* Contain no ammonia, acids, alkalis, solvents, phosphates, chlorine, nitrates, borates, or volatile organic compounds

If you have a poison emergency or a question about poisons and you're in the United States, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222"

Healthy Homes and Families

This week I am on vacation and wanted to explore healthy homes and healthy families. One of my favorite web doctors is www.drgreene.com Parents have become more and more conscious of how important it is to preserve the planet for their children–and out of this consciousness, the green baby movement was born. This is the first definitive, up-to-date guide for parents on how to raise happy babies "green," that is, in a manner that is healthy for them and also for the earth. Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises on healthy choices during pregnancy and childbirth, feeding babies only the best food available, and using medicines safely.

Why Go Green?

Why Go Green?


According to GreenBabies.com "We were impressed enough to base our business on organic cotton when we came to understand the firm conviction of the organic farmer, which is:

Soil is an entire ecosystem of it's own, filled with diverse living organisms that work in a harmonious cooperative that allows crops to grow. It is not dry, dead dirt that must be sprayed with toxic petroleum derived chemicals in order to be forced to produce commodities for sale and consumption with no thought for the lasting destruction left behind.

In the early 1990's this way of thought was sweeping through the cotton fields of California and the high plains of Texas. Third and forth generation farmers, whose families depended on the crop for their livelihood, were converting back to organic, to the methods their grandfathers and great grandfathers used, because of a deep love of the land and a belief that it was their responsibility to future generations.

This is the noble, natural start for the organic fibers that wind up on our babies backs!

Where does it come from?

Who made it?

Who touched it?

Under what conditions?

What will happen to it when I'm done?

Big ad agencies get paid a lot of money to help us FORGET to ask these questions!

BUT IT IS IMPORTANT! How you feel about things! Your values and beliefs! Where your money goes, what happens to the planet! The quality of things, the intention behind the invention! What your baby uses and smells and touches!

These are some of the things we've learned about organic cotton and why we feel it's an important choice:

More energy is now used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to till, cultivate and harvest all the crops in the U.S.

Conventional cotton occupies only 3% of the world's farmland, but uses 25% of the world's chemical pesticides and fertilizers.

In the U.S. alone, it's estimated that 800 million pounds of pesticides will be used on cotton this year!

Some of the chemical used on conventional cotton include the infamous defoliant Paraquat and insecticides like Parathion which is 60 times more toxic that DDT!

With organic farming, crops are rotated to protect the soil and farmers use compost and naturally derived mineral and plant products for fertilizer.

Eco Fashion Designer-Saving Our Water

Water, like air, is essential to sustain life and maintain basic human dignity
Did you know:
In 2004 worldwide, 2.2 million deaths were attributed to unsafe water – nine out of ten of these deaths were children under the age of five.
One of the largest public health issues of our time is lack of clean water.

Purchase these Linda Loudermilk Water is a Human Right limited edition products and wear your conviction in style! Additionally, if you wish to participate or donate directly to Mikhail Gorbachev’s Green Cross International Global Campaign for the Right to Water, go to www.greencrossinternational.nett and click on “Programs” for the Water Campaign. If you would like to buy a necklace to contribute to ind Loudermilk's mission to clean water visit her site, http://www.lindaloudermilk.com/waterneck.html