There is one way moms can go green that doesn't require too much money: cloth diapering! You've heard me blog about it before, but I wanted to bring it up again because it is in the news. Here is an article featured in Time magazine: Diapers Go Green. It mentions Cotton Babies (a website I've ordered from before) and bumGenius diapers (my favorite brand). Too cool!
This slideshow is very powerful. It is about female circumcision practiced in parts of our world. I just don't see how there can be public outcry against this practice being done with little girls but not the same reaction when it is performed on boys.Finally, if you are registered to vote in NJ, know that you can confidently go to the polls on Feb. 5th and make a worthy contribution! I've had people ask me about whether or not they can vote in a certain party without previously declaring their affiliation. The answer (in New Jersey) is that if you HAVEN'T voted in a primary as a dem or a rep in the past, you can go in and choose one or the other this time around. If you have already voted as a dem/rep, you must stick with that line for this election. Please note, you can switch party affiliations easily, but the date to do so was about a month ago.
Great stuff on NPR this morning about Barack Obama's senate record. They are doing 1 hour on each candidate this week (Hillary, Edwards, and Kucinich) and then the Republican candidates next week. You can listen to it online whenever you'd like. Try the link above. I love Brian Lehrer and seriously think that one of the reasons why I like going to swim class on Monday mornings with T is so that I can listen to his program in the car!
3 comments:
I think cloth diapering was big when our moms had babies??? I know my mom used them and many of the women I worked with in Ithaca did. There used to be a service in town that would pick up the soiled diapers and bring fresh clean ones daily or weekly (back in the day, not now). I wish we had a better washer, I think that's the rash problem with our CDs (even with double rinsing and presoaking). I cannot wait to be in our own house!
Too bad that shop in Ithaca wasn't there when I was there. I may have started out CDing from the beginning. =(
Of course, the more I think of it, I think my mom was the odd one... in the south, in the 70s, breastfeeding and cloth diapering??? Not too many of my friends' parents did this. ???
Hey Sheryl,
Bridget told me about your blog, so I thought I'd check you out. We cloth diaper at our house with our 6 week old, and I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't! Our favorite diaper is from Crickett's (www.crickettsdiapers.com). They are fitted hemp diapers and they are the best I've found! I also use a hemp prefold wrapped with a Chinese prefold when I run out of Crickett's.
It's so exciting that the media is finally showing cloth diapering in a good light!
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