Four wheels bad, two wheels good

With this great spring weather we’ve been having here in the frozen north, it was time to get the bikes back out and try to get back to leaving the car at home for short trips.
Yesterday was sunny, warm and all the streets were clear for a quick six-minute trip to one kids’ preschool. It was [...]

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Na na na na na

As I was breastfeeding my toddler for what felt like the umpteenth time yesterday, I started to try to think about the postive aspects of nursing forever and ever amen. This is what I am going to try to focus on instead of trying to figure out why this baby just does not want to be weaned. [...]

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Plastic baby bottles + heat = hormone disruption

This story by my colleague Michelle Lalonde at the Montreal Gazette had me rounding up our plastic sippy cups and the kids’ drinking cups and checking their bottoms for the right recycling symbols – if it has a 7 inside that little triangle, there’s a good chance they contain the dangerous chemical bisphenol A.
Here’s what Environmental Defence had [...]

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Inspiration for the new year

It’s the first day of the year, fresh with possibilities.
I’m reading a book called Raising Your Baby Green, and liked this line from the introduction: “Raising your baby green doesn’t require a revolution in your lifestyle or creature comforts. Do as much or as little as you want.”
Doing something greener seems to be on the mind [...]

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