As I write, my son is preparing for his last big day out of the summer. He’s going hiking with friends. He’s filling his many-pocketed pants with all of the essentials: compass, magnifying glass, pen & paper, little bottle (“What for?” “For play!”), binoculars, and SNACKS! A lot of snacks. My son stuffs his [...]
Watching children scrap perfectly good food off a tray into a garbage bin is alarming. On Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, the piles of wasted food and half-used packaging—even unopened, packaged food—hauled away after school lunch was the most shocking part of a very shocking series. School lunch waste is preventable, but it requires changing thinking [...]
This Friday morning, August 13th, catch us on CHCH News Morning. The show is live from Hamilton with feeds into Toronto, London and the Horseshoe area.
We’re scheduled for a short time slot just after 8:00AM. It’s a chance to see some of our favorite back-to-school items.
WHEN: Friday, August 13th
TIME: Just after 8:00AM
WHERE: CHCH [...]
In our Focus on Plastic, we want to take positive steps to reduce the use of plastic for our families. For the rest of this week, I’ll write about plastic-free products for children.
Two Big Issues with Plastic Use
The first issue, off-gassing.
New car smell. You know that characteristic smell and that of [...]
I had no idea until someone sent me a link this morning that today is “No Plastic Day.”
What better time to start our Focus on Plastic. Be sure to see today’s post on plastics hit you coming and going.
Plastic is pervasive in our lives. Some of us have made efforts to avoid plastic because of a sense that natural materials are better for our families and better for our babies. Let’s add some concrete reasons to our avoidance of plastics.
We need to face the costs of plastics at both [...]
Plastics, oil spills, petro-chemical ingredients in everyday products, and pre-polluted babies. Fitting together pieces of the news every day is devastating. This month I am going to face up to plastics and face them down.
For two weeks this month I am going to focus on plastics: why we need to become [...]
This Sunday, 60 Minutes will run a segment on phthalates, the plastic softeners that are, according to CBS, “ubiquitous.” Soft plastics may be in many places, but they are not in all places any more than disposable diapers are in every home. Parents can and do choose natural, chemical-free products for the health [...]
A funny thing happened when byNature.ca booth neighbors arrived at the Children’s Trunk Show in Toronto last week. We were the only cloth diaper vendor at the show, and the response was really quite positive. Many stopped by and talked to us, and they were really impressed with what they were seeing and [...]
Every day should be a day when we commit to sustainable living. For a lot of us, we have committed to conscious living and we look at the choices we make to lower our environmental impact from big issues like how we transport ourselves to smaller issues like which bunch of broccoli to buy. [...]