EcoMoms

I've been making regular visits to the Green Mom Finds website. It's like having a best girlfriend who knows about all of the best earth-friendly, toxic-free things you need for your family. As interest in "going green" increases, more and more "green" products are entering the marketsphere. It's great to have a website like Green Moms that helps moms find the good stuff.

The International Herald Tribune recently did a story about the EcoMom Alliance. The story also mentioned greenandcleanmom.blogspot.com, eco-chick.com and the web-based organization the Center for The New American Dream which advocates reducing consumption and offers brides a gift registry that can "help you celebrate the less-material wedding of your dreams."

I think that moms are at the forefront of the green movement in America because we make most of the decisions about what the family brings into the house and consumes. Becoming more aware of what other moms are doing helps me make better decisions for my family.

In the International Herald Tribune article about the EcoMoms Alliance, Patricia Leigh Brown writes:

At last year's Step It Up rallies, a day of environmental demonstrations across the country, the largest group of organizers were "mothers concerned about the disintegrating environment for their children," said Bill McKibben, an event founder and the author of "The End of Nature." Women have been instrumental in the environmental movement, from turn-of-the-century campaigns to save the Hudson Palisades and California sequoias to the Love Canal toxic waste activist Lois Gibbs. In public opinion surveys, women express significantly higher levels of environmental concern than men, said Riley Dunlap, a professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. In recent years, he said, "local lifestyle activism," much of it driven by women, has been on the rise, a trend that is likely to continue, he said.

Rock on ladies!