Green Baby

by Susannah Marriott

A practical handbook for eco-friendly minded parents furnishes a host of useful tips and advice on how to make the best choices for one's child while minimizing the impact on the planet's environment, covering everything from baby food and diapers to toys.

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting, Adult

190 pages, hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Ella]

To be honest, I didn't find anything particularly new in this book, but it is a rather good compilation on how to make your baby care greener. It does promote a lot of green product ideas, but unfortunately doesn't have enough ideas on making your own - eco products cost much more and are not very affordable to all parents. Still, some greener choices are inspiring. Overall a very quick and easy read.

[Cristina]

Terrible read. Any book that advocates an anti-vaccination stance as somehow 'green' has no basis in reality. Not only was this book judgemental and unrealistic, it's based in ideologies that have nothing to do with trying to live lighter on the planet.

[Leah]

Encourages women to express milk using only their own hands. Need I say more.

[Björn Þórðarson]

This book is full of false claims and very unrealistic for a modern parent. Some of the advices are shockingly horrible and truthfully dangerous. Like the one with anti-vaccinations.

[Gillian]

How does being anti-vaccination help the environment? By reducing population??? And call it what it is... The website link included in the book was not about “vaccine awareness.” Did my bit for the environment by recycling this book and keeping it out of public circulation.



Edits for typos of frustration ;)

[Amy]

The information in this book was very enlightening and had some good tips on being more earth friendly and healthy for your baby. I don't think that I could implement all the green suggestions, but some of them are just no brainers. Definitely recommended for anyone interested in being more healthy for themselves or new babies

[Jennifer Kyrnin]

interestingly enough, my copy is called Green Baby

I finally just skimmed this book and then gave it away. The advice it gives is good, but I found being the mother of a toddler and baby too time consuming to really implement all the suggestions.

[Suki]

For me, this book was a general overview of green ideas. It was one of those books that can make you feel good for the decisions you've made so far about being green and then gives you suggestions for going one step further.

[Charlene Mason Gallego]

A very concise, helpful, compact guide to making the right green choices for you and your baby.

[mari]

Reading for Eco-Libris' Green Book Campaign. Come by my blog on November 10th to see my review.

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[Tricia Price]

Mostly just depressed me because there's so much more that I could do to be green, but who's got the time? Not really a lot of information I didn't already know.