Comments on: Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/ Crafting the Super-Natural Life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:10:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: The Worsted Witch » Oh Baby! Natural Baby Nurseries http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-11316 The Worsted Witch » Oh Baby! Natural Baby Nurseries Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:04:29 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-11316 [...] Related posts: 1. EllaRoo Baby Carriers 2. Mail Call: Used Baby Bottles 3. An Eco-Friendly Nursery is a Healthy Nursery 4. Chemical Pollution Harms Kids’ Brains 5. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids [...] [...] Related posts: 1. EllaRoo Baby Carriers 2. Mail Call: Used Baby Bottles 3. An Eco-Friendly Nursery is a Healthy Nursery 4. Chemical Pollution Harms Kids’ Brains 5. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids [...]

]]> By: The Worsted Witch » Mail Call: Finding Eco Products http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-8696 The Worsted Witch » Mail Call: Finding Eco Products Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:32:11 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-8696 [...] Related articles: 1. Martha Stewart Living Jan 2007 2. Totally Bamboo 3. Vinegar: Disinfectant of Champions 4. Test Kitchen Witch 5. Eco-Me Home 6. Hub’s Guest Review: Seventh Generation Laundry Liquid Detergent 7. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids 8. Implements of Green 9. Eulogy for Swiffer [...] [...] Related articles: 1. Martha Stewart Living Jan 2007 2. Totally Bamboo 3. Vinegar: Disinfectant of Champions 4. Test Kitchen Witch 5. Eco-Me Home 6. Hub’s Guest Review: Seventh Generation Laundry Liquid Detergent 7. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids 8. Implements of Green 9. Eulogy for Swiffer [...]

]]> By: The Worsted Witch » Martha Stewart Living Jan 2007 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-4428 The Worsted Witch » Martha Stewart Living Jan 2007 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:03:30 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-4428 [...] Related articles: 1. Chemical Pollution Harms Kids’ Brains 2. Hub’s Guest Review: Seventh Generation Laundry Liquid Detergent 3. Eco-Me Home 4. Vinegar: Disinfectant of Champions 5. Test Kitchen Witch 6. Eulogy for Swiffer 7. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids [...] [...] Related articles: 1. Chemical Pollution Harms Kids’ Brains 2. Hub’s Guest Review: Seventh Generation Laundry Liquid Detergent 3. Eco-Me Home 4. Vinegar: Disinfectant of Champions 5. Test Kitchen Witch 6. Eulogy for Swiffer 7. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids [...]

]]> By: The Worsted Witch » Pesticides in Produce http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-2619 The Worsted Witch » Pesticides in Produce Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:22:09 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-2619 [...] Related articles: 1. The Pesticide-Parkinson’s Equation 2. Grass! On! The! Loose! (Chekhov’s Eco Tip) 3. Lawn & Order 4. Vinegar: Disinfectant of Champions 5. Eco-Me Home: Green Cleaning Solutions 6. Pollution in People 7. Eulogy for Swiffer 8. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids 9. Why Pesticides Suck Reason #785 [...] [...] Related articles: 1. The Pesticide-Parkinson’s Equation 2. Grass! On! The! Loose! (Chekhov’s Eco Tip) 3. Lawn & Order 4. Vinegar: Disinfectant of Champions 5. Eco-Me Home: Green Cleaning Solutions 6. Pollution in People 7. Eulogy for Swiffer 8. Maybe Baby: Chemicals & Kids 9. Why Pesticides Suck Reason #785 [...]

]]> By: aleta http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-605 aleta Mon, 15 May 2006 23:10:44 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-605 Hear, hear! Excellent post. I'd be interested in learning more about wood processing, with tips especially on what to do with old, used wood (how to dispose of it properly, or is it safe to recycle?). Is there a cheap alternative? We've got a lot of pressed wood around the house that my roommate wants to reuse to make garden boxes and a compost bin, but I'm trying to convince him to stay the hell away from the stuff, lest the toxins re-enter the environment through water drainage, and critters (including ourselves) interacting with and/or eating the plants. Hear, hear! Excellent post. I’d be interested in learning more about wood processing, with tips especially on what to do with old, used wood (how to dispose of it properly, or is it safe to recycle?). Is there a cheap alternative? We’ve got a lot of pressed wood around the house that my roommate wants to reuse to make garden boxes and a compost bin, but I’m trying to convince him to stay the hell away from the stuff, lest the toxins re-enter the environment through water drainage, and critters (including ourselves) interacting with and/or eating the plants.

]]> By: EarthEcho » Blog Archive » Carnival of the Green #27 http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-600 EarthEcho » Blog Archive » Carnival of the Green #27 Mon, 15 May 2006 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-600 [...] Maybe Baby The Worsted Witch (a.k.a. Jasmin Chua) offers this post on how synthetic chemicals are undermining our fertility and our children’s’ futures. [...] [...] Maybe Baby The Worsted Witch (a.k.a. Jasmin Chua) offers this post on how synthetic chemicals are undermining our fertility and our children’s’ futures. [...]

]]> By: The Purloined Letter http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-572 The Purloined Letter Thu, 11 May 2006 22:20:19 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-572 I'll be passing this around to my friends. Great info. I’ll be passing this around to my friends. Great info.

]]> By: Liz http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-567 Liz Thu, 11 May 2006 13:46:50 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-567 Great info here, Jasmin. What I find most interesting is how someone like Daily Green who is environmentally-aware, discovers that industry has poisoned his body, yet still goes through any means necessary to bring a child into a (known) polluted world. I know the pull of reproduction is strong, but it is still somewhat startling to me. (and this also makes my decision not to have children much easier to justify to others...maybe we're sterile and don't know it.) As for Severine's question: Have you considered a in-tap or reverse osmosis water filter? I don't personally have one (we have deep well water), but if I lived in a city, I would definitely filter the water from the tap instead of relying on bottled water. Great info here, Jasmin. What I find most interesting is how someone like Daily Green who is environmentally-aware, discovers that industry has poisoned his body, yet still goes through any means necessary to bring a child into a (known) polluted world. I know the pull of reproduction is strong, but it is still somewhat startling to me. (and this also makes my decision not to have children much easier to justify to others…maybe we’re sterile and don’t know it.)

As for Severine’s question: Have you considered a in-tap or reverse osmosis water filter? I don’t personally have one (we have deep well water), but if I lived in a city, I would definitely filter the water from the tap instead of relying on bottled water.

]]> By: Severine http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-553 Severine Wed, 10 May 2006 19:29:28 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-553 This article is very informative, very scary, and leaves me with a renewed feeling of damn-I-shouldn't-bring-a-kid-into-this-world... But besides that, I still wonder what water we should be drinking here in the city of Los Angeles.... It might be a very stupid question because you probably already covered big cities, but I haven't seen it, and it's a daily concern in my family. There is Biota which uses compostable bottles, but I don't believe they go in the recycling bin (somebody prove me wrong!!), and it takes something special for them to actually biodegrade (also, what other toxic stuff is there in this one?). Then I don't want to drink Fiji water for the normal reason readers here wouldn't. That leaves me with the tap water, which I understand has more regulations than bottled water, yet I can't get myself to do it. Not only is it disgusting tasting (chlorine tasting mostly) but I read somewhere else that the water situation here is disastrous... So without using the un-dead plastic bottled water covered in toxic waste, the ever polluting filters, or the unsure state of our tap water in this city, what's a family to do? This article is very informative, very scary, and leaves me with a renewed feeling of damn-I-shouldn’t-bring-a-kid-into-this-world…
But besides that, I still wonder what water we should be drinking here in the city of Los Angeles….
It might be a very stupid question because you probably already covered big cities, but I haven’t seen it, and it’s a daily concern in my family.

There is Biota which uses compostable bottles, but I don’t believe they go in the recycling bin (somebody prove me wrong!!), and it takes something special for them to actually biodegrade (also, what other toxic stuff is there in this one?).
Then I don’t want to drink Fiji water for the normal reason readers here wouldn’t.
That leaves me with the tap water, which I understand has more regulations than bottled water, yet I can’t get myself to do it. Not only is it disgusting tasting (chlorine tasting mostly) but I read somewhere else that the water situation here is disastrous…
So without using the un-dead plastic bottled water covered in toxic waste, the ever polluting filters, or the unsure state of our tap water in this city, what’s a family to do?

]]> By: kyrie http://www.worstedwitch.com/2006/05/09/maybe-baby/#comment-539 kyrie Wed, 10 May 2006 03:37:20 +0000 http://www.worstedwitch.com/?p=208#comment-539 thanks for this post, jasmin- lots of stuff i knew, but never really put together in one place. it's good to have a reminder that stuff like eating organic and not using chemicals in our home makes a (big!) difference. thanks for this post, jasmin- lots of stuff i knew, but never really put together in one place. it’s good to have a reminder that stuff like eating organic and not using chemicals in our home makes a (big!) difference.

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