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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
Thorough and Trustworthy
This book is proving itself to be a thorough and trustworthy reference. I'm finding that each time there's a new and worrisome problem in the news (first it was lead paint on the toys, and now it's toxic plastic in the baby bottles), I can turn to reassuring, authoritative advice in Raising Baby Green. Check out the box on page 132 for help in choosing safe baby bottles...
Published on October 31, 2007 by D'sMom
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44 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
Isn't Thrift a Green Quality, too?
Raising Baby Green was easy and quick to read and is a book I will keep around simply for the fact that Dr. Greene has put together an impressive resource guide of websites where one can find lots of information on greening one's life and home. I'm sure this book will be a great reference in the future when I'm looking to buy something, that being said, I had two problems...
Published on May 27, 2008 by Brenda Murray
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
Thorough and Trustworthy, October 31, 2007
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
This book is proving itself to be a thorough and trustworthy reference. I'm finding that each time there's a new and worrisome problem in the news (first it was lead paint on the toys, and now it's toxic plastic in the baby bottles), I can turn to reassuring, authoritative advice in Raising Baby Green. Check out the box on page 132 for help in choosing safe baby bottles (if you don't have the book, you can look it up here on Amazon.) There's a huge amount of information packed into this book, (great index, by the way) and thankfully it's not preachy, just very helpful!
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44 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
Isn't Thrift a Green Quality, too?, May 27, 2008
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
Raising Baby Green was easy and quick to read and is a book I will keep around simply for the fact that Dr. Greene has put together an impressive resource guide of websites where one can find lots of information on greening one's life and home. I'm sure this book will be a great reference in the future when I'm looking to buy something, that being said, I had two problems with this book.
First, after about the second chapter this book starts to read like an advertisement to buy buy buy! For example, there is repeated references to bringing you own organic cotton sheets to wherever you give birth and using them to replace the sheets at the hospital/birthing center. Now call me pragmatic, but 300 count organic cotton sheets cost between $125-$175 for my bed, thus, these are not the ideal sheets TO GIVE BIRTH ON. They will be ruined and I know when I'm expecting a baby I don't generally have $175 dollars to throw away. Nor does he address the impracticality of packing home sheets covered in birth mess for washing.
While Dr. Green does repeatedly say you can do as little or as much greening as you like in your home, he really does seem to push for more. There comes a point when ripping up your current hardwoods floors which are perfectly good to put down new floors made from cork which is a renewable resource stops being green. If you gut your entire house to "remodel green" the question becomes, are you really being green? Or are you just buying into the latest fad and wasting valuable, usable resources?
This green baby guide seems to have bought into our consumer culture hook, line and sinker, which is the reason I was going to give it 4 stars, but I dropped that down to 3 stars when I ran into my second problem with this book: Mis-information.
On page 248 there is a section titled "How to Drive Green." Two of the suggestions given are changing your air filter (which he says will save you $130 in fuel economy) and filling your tank at night. Now if you google "10 gas saving myths" you will find several articles about, well, gas saving myths and both of these are on there. Neither filling up at night nor changing your air filter really increase you fuel economy.
Green goes on further to say that filling up at night, "decreases evaporation during pumping, so anything that escapes won't be cooked in to the ozone." So, those fumes I see/smell when I pump gas at night don't go into the ozone? Because it's night? So . . .where do they go? To the pub for a beer?
If Greene has mis-information about fuel economy in his book that can be disputed by a simple google search, it makes me wonder what else he got wrong.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent, January 12, 2008
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
Although I was hoping for more some tips during pregnancy, this is an excellent book for raising your baby green. It has some fantastic tips on everything from painting your room to laundry detergents. Some of these tips are even helpful for you even if you are not expecting a child or work with children.
I highly recommend it.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Fantastic Book!, January 2, 2008
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
This book was a gift for a friend who is pregnant with her first child. I heard an interview on NPR's People's Pharmacy and expected the book to great. I was thrilled. It was better than I imagined. My friend loved it too and is excited to apply some of the great advice. I recommend this book to anyone who has children or is thinking of starting a family.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
The BEST baby book - essential for every parent!!!!!!, October 2, 2007
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
This book is incredibly helpful and I am so grateful to finally have a resource like this. With all of the harmful things in our environment today, it is hard to navigate through it all and know you are doing the very best to raise a healthy child. This book helps me feel empowered. I am giving this book at every baby shower I go to. If you only buy or have time to ready one baby book - this is the one!!!!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Very informative book and well worth the read, July 16, 2008
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
I think this is a very good to start raising a green baby. I wasn't the most eco-educated person out there, but I tried to do my part. When my wife and I started to try to have a baby, I wanted to have a healthy baby and started to do more research. What I like about this book is that it has a ton of information and resources and all laid out in a logical manner. The book was very easy to read, although I did not read every single page. I took note of a lot of tips (just bought some castile soap from Trader Joe's w/ my reusable bag) and websites. I liked the pages on the chemicals you should not purchase. I actually wrote them on back of my printout of the Environmental Defense Fund Seafood Selector guide. I used that chemicals list to check against sunscreen that I was looking to purchase, which I found that most sunscreens have one or more of those chemicals even the ones that say organics. I won't follow every single advice in the book just because of practicality or cost reasons, but at least I'll be a more educated parent on raising a greener baby. As with every book, you should use your own common sense when following an author's advice.
On a side note, there is so much information out there and sometimes conflicting information. It seems to me that one study will contradict another study that was done just a few months ago!! Case in point is Brenda Murray's review on when to fill-up your car. One study says it doesn't matter and another says it does matter (take a look at the comments on her review). I live in Phoenix and they actually do say you should fill your car up at night (or early morning) not because of air pollution, but because of how the regulators (I think) on the pumps work. It actually cost less to fill-up when it the temperature is cooler than when it is hot. I wish I could find the Arizona Republic article that talked more to the technical side of why this is the case and why the state is trying to change the regulators.
Lastly, in Brenda Murray's review, the author (Alan Greene) actually comments on her review. Some people might find this self-serving or being an ego maniac, but I found it very refreshing as he wanted to provide additional insight. I don't know if many authors would do this, but I found it very refreshing for the author to do this and the tone of his comment was not negative or preachy. In my opinion, he does really seem to care about the subject.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Wonderful!!!, January 7, 2008
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
What a great book!!! So much detailed information, with interesting facts and studies, I could hardly put it down. This book is a must for anyone thinking about having children, or just wanting to improve the quality of their life. You'll soon realize that there is a lot you can do to make your house and your lifestlye a healthier one.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Great Book, every new parent should own a copy., January 2, 2008
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
I thought this book was an excellent source of information for those wanting to live a more "natural" lifestyle. It contains tons of information on product materials, even to the point of being scary as to what we expose our children/family to on a daily basis. I do think, however, that it should be titled to include the entire family and not just baby since most of the infomation in it is not soley directed at baby care. It would make the book more appealing to a larger audience.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
My new favorite baby gift, October 16, 2007
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
I love giving books to expectant parents, especially books written by experts who are both reassuring and inspirational -- and that's Dr. Greene to a T. For your next baby shower, you could package this book with some of the products mentioned, or a coupon to come over and help the new parents "greenproof" the house. We can take nesting to a whole new level with this fun and engaging guide!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Raising Baby Green, January 25, 2008
This review is from: Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Care (Paperback)
Raising Baby Green has numerous terrific ideas for parents (or anyone else for that matter) who are looking for ways to become more environmentally friendly. From cloth diapers to alternatives to chemical cleaning products - this book will take you through the basics of choosing green products.
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