Comments for Green For The Mini http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog Eco-Logistics Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 Comment on Diaper Guilt by jennifer w. http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/04/20/diaper-guilt/#comment-12 jennifer w. Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:40:42 +0000 http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/04/20/diaper-guilt/#comment-12 aloha print it is. how much does he weigh? When i raised my babies, the first two had cloth diapers and my friends chipped in for a month worth of diaper service, which was cheaper than disposables and disposables were likely to leave rashes etc. because who knows what they were made from. Of course that was 30 something years ago and most people used cloth diapers. By the time my son was born, 4 years later, disposable was the norm and as you say they are so easy. I don't know about internationally, but American's tend to go for the easy, the convenient. I mean how many people cook meals every night as opposed to ordering out? How many men carry lunch pails as opposed to stopping at Burger King. One of the games my 2 yr old granddaughter invented for herself was "Fast Food Restaurant Worker" She will go behind a counter or make a counter and say, "Want Burga, want fren fry? How many? For pete's sake, she doesn't pretend to stir cakes... but back to diapers, yes disposables are easy, but in truth it is what you get used to doing, how much time to alot for tasks and eventually you get used to the extra time and your right, change only happens 1 person at a time. aloha print it is. how much does he weigh? When i raised my babies, the first two had cloth diapers and my friends chipped in for a month worth of diaper service, which was cheaper than disposables and disposables were likely to leave rashes etc. because who knows what they were made from. Of course that was 30 something years ago and most people used cloth diapers. By the time my son was born, 4 years later, disposable was the norm and as you say they are so easy. I don’t know about internationally, but American’s tend to go for the easy, the convenient. I mean how many people cook meals every night as opposed to ordering out? How many men carry lunch pails as opposed to stopping at Burger King. One of the games my 2 yr old granddaughter invented for herself was “Fast Food Restaurant Worker” She will go behind a counter or make a counter and say, “Want Burga, want fren fry? How many? For pete’s sake, she doesn’t pretend to stir cakes…
but back to diapers, yes disposables are easy, but in truth it is what you get used to doing, how much time to alot for tasks and eventually you get used to the extra time and your right, change only happens 1 person at a time.

]]> Comment on Check out this wardrobe I found!!!!!! by jennifer w. http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/04/06/check-out-this-wardrobe-i-found/#comment-11 jennifer w. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:22:55 +0000 http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/04/06/check-out-this-wardrobe-i-found/#comment-11 when i am wondering around in my daughter's brooklyn neighborhood i see put out shelves and wardrobes. i hate to think of these wonderful pieces of cast off furniture being thrown away and burned. Save an old wardrobe today! when i am wondering around in my daughter’s brooklyn neighborhood i see put out shelves and wardrobes. i hate to think of these wonderful pieces of cast off furniture being thrown away and burned. Save an old wardrobe today!

]]> Comment on Wal-mart goes green? by jennifer w. http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/22/wal-mart-goes-green/#comment-6 jennifer w. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:17:13 +0000 http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/22/wal-mart-goes-green/#comment-6 Again, i live in the rural south. Walmart is the only department store within 1 hr. in any direction. I have a love/hate relationship with Walmart. I hate their employee policies, their "green" policies, their unlivable wages, their unwillingness to hire full-time . . . and I could go on forever. Of course they want their manufacturers to use their green policies, whats it going to cost them? But you are right, slowly but surely green will be on the agenda for the U.S.A. I will be curious to see what happens when we get a different President. Again, i live in the rural south. Walmart is the only department store within 1 hr. in any direction. I have a love/hate relationship with Walmart. I hate their employee policies, their “green” policies, their unlivable wages, their unwillingness to hire full-time . . . and I could go on forever. Of course they want their manufacturers to use their green policies, whats it going to cost them? But you are right, slowly but surely green will be on the agenda for the U.S.A. I will be curious to see what happens when we get a different President.

]]> Comment on Is green the new black? by jennifer w. http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/15/is-green-the-new-black/#comment-5 jennifer w. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:40:33 +0000 http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/15/is-green-the-new-black/#comment-5 I am all for boxes, for our kids, we got a whole line of boxes, tied them together with twine, & let the kids color or paint them. It was a train, with the kids sitting in the different boxes, or they painted animals on them and it was a circus train. I am all for boxes, for our kids, we got a whole line of boxes, tied them together with twine, & let the kids color or paint them. It was a train, with the kids sitting in the different boxes, or they painted animals on them and it was a circus train.

]]> Comment on Caveat Emptor, or personal responsibility vs big business? by jennifer w. http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/16/caveat-emptor-or-personal-responsibility-vs-big-business/#comment-4 jennifer w. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:27:14 +0000 http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/16/caveat-emptor-or-personal-responsibility-vs-big-business/#comment-4 i am constantly advocating for less government interference, let the market be run by the consumer, however, consumers will buy just about ANYTHING. Disposable diapers are a wonderful example, bad for the environment, not great for the kids, and expensive; but oh my gosh so easy, so now they are the standard, not the exception. Speaking of corn, I live in the rural south and one of the favored heating methods is the corn heater. it is like a wood stove only uses corn kernels as the burnable product. It is so well liked that there is often a years waiting list to buy one. Also in this area everyone is on septic systems, we don't have sewer systems. I wanted to buy a biodegradable toilet and it was not considered acceptable by our septic inspector, mostly because she'd never heard of such a thing. i am constantly advocating for less government interference, let the market be run by the consumer, however, consumers will buy just about ANYTHING. Disposable diapers are a wonderful example, bad for the environment, not great for the kids, and expensive; but oh my gosh so easy, so now they are the standard, not the exception.
Speaking of corn, I live in the rural south and one of the favored heating methods is the corn heater. it is like a wood stove only uses corn kernels as the burnable product. It is so well liked that there is often a years waiting list to buy one. Also in this area everyone is on septic systems, we don’t have sewer systems. I wanted to buy a biodegradable toilet and it was not considered acceptable by our septic inspector, mostly because she’d never heard of such a thing.

]]> Comment on Toxic baby bottles!!?? by Adam Fields http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/03/toxic-baby-bottles/#comment-3 Adam Fields Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:04:36 +0000 http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/03/toxic-baby-bottles/#comment-3 While I think this warrants some better research, and certainly a better reading of the available data, the evidence presented here is pretty thin, and also biased. 1) This report is not from "The State of California", it's from an environmental policy group that happens to be in California. 2) The reverse-U curve cited in the report is usually found when examining sociological and threshold effects. In the hormonal context, it's usually something like "a little bit of this hormone has a beneficial effect, but a lot does some damage". I've never seen it represented as the inverse in a harmful context. By the logic they present there, there's a sweet spot where exposure to the chemical (bisphenol A) is a problem, but if you get <b>more</b> than that, it's as if you got less. That doesn't make any sense to me, and I'd like to see an explanation of why that might be the case, rather than the vague "numerous studies have shown". 3) This report, from the European Food Safety Authority, seems more rational on the subject, and also makes the important distinction (which the report you linked to does not) that people aren't rats, and that toxicity studies in rodents aren't necessarily applicable to humans: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/science/afc/afc_opinions/bisphenol_a.html Again, maybe there's a problem here, but there are plenty of environmental chemicals, and singling this out as a particular vector based on this evidence is a little alarmist, I think. While I think this warrants some better research, and certainly a better reading of the available data, the evidence presented here is pretty thin, and also biased.

1) This report is not from “The State of California”, it’s from an environmental policy group that happens to be in California.

2) The reverse-U curve cited in the report is usually found when examining sociological and threshold effects. In the hormonal context, it’s usually something like “a little bit of this hormone has a beneficial effect, but a lot does some damage”. I’ve never seen it represented as the inverse in a harmful context. By the logic they present there, there’s a sweet spot where exposure to the chemical (bisphenol A) is a problem, but if you get more than that, it’s as if you got less. That doesn’t make any sense to me, and I’d like to see an explanation of why that might be the case, rather than the vague “numerous studies have shown”.

3) This report, from the European Food Safety Authority, seems more rational on the subject, and also makes the important distinction (which the report you linked to does not) that people aren’t rats, and that toxicity studies in rodents aren’t necessarily applicable to humans:

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/science/afc/afc_opinions/bisphenol_a.html

Again, maybe there’s a problem here, but there are plenty of environmental chemicals, and singling this out as a particular vector based on this evidence is a little alarmist, I think.

]]> Comment on Toxic baby bottles!!?? by Jennifer Lance http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/03/toxic-baby-bottles/#comment-2 Jennifer Lance Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:10:17 +0000 http://www.greenforthemini.com/blog/2007/03/03/toxic-baby-bottles/#comment-2 A fellow blogger passed your site on to me, and I am excited to watch your blog unfurl. I couldn't agree more with you on plastic toys, BPA, etc. You may want to visit my blog: http://www.ecochildsplay.com A fellow blogger passed your site on to me, and I am excited to watch your blog unfurl. I couldn’t agree more with you on plastic toys, BPA, etc. You may want to visit my blog:
http://www.ecochildsplay.com

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