Comments on: Daycares Going Green - Discuss with your group: Helping childcare centers go organic and become more environmentally friendly. From KIWI’s August/September 2010 issue. http://www.greenmomsmeet.com/2010/07/green-daycare/ A meeting place for parenting leading a green lifestyle Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Manda Aufochs Gillespie http://www.greenmomsmeet.com/2010/07/green-daycare/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Manda Aufochs Gillespie Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:08:00 +0000 http://www.greenmomsmeet.com/?p=602#comment-190 This is a GREAT topic Kiwi. Kudos to you. I have worked with a couple of the foremost green daycares in the country as part of my business, The Green Mama LLC, and have found that it is a movement truly at its infancy but about to take off running! The Little Green Treehouse in Chicago, IL, was my first client. They are a relatively large daycare and they saw green as both the right thing to do and as the trend of the future. As with any green daycare, they paid very close attention to improving their indoor air quality, sourcing organic food, and having healthy toys, furniture, plates/utensils, etc. What I was thrilled about, however, is that they also chose to do cloth diapers. This saved the parents attending approximately $50/week and helped ensure the little ones in their care got the health benefits of cloth--they also kept two semi truck loads of diapers out of the landfill in their first year of operation. Wow! On follow-up, they said this decision was the one that they were finding EASIEST to maintain. You can learn more about The Green Mama, including lots of tips for how parents and childcare providers can grow greener, at www.thegreenmama.com. Thanks again. manda aufochs gillespie founder/president the green mama, llc m: 604-417-6888 general line: 773-299-8502 growing greener families www.TheGreenMama.com www.twitter.com/thegreenmama www.facebook.com/TheGreenMamaLLC www.chicagonow.com/blogs/the-green-mama/ This is a GREAT topic Kiwi. Kudos to you. I have worked with a couple of the foremost green daycares in the country as part of my business, The Green Mama LLC, and have found that it is a movement truly at its infancy but about to take off running! The Little Green Treehouse in Chicago, IL, was my first client. They are a relatively large daycare and they saw green as both the right thing to do and as the trend of the future. As with any green daycare, they paid very close attention to improving their indoor air quality, sourcing organic food, and having healthy toys, furniture, plates/utensils, etc. What I was thrilled about, however, is that they also chose to do cloth diapers. This saved the parents attending approximately $50/week and helped ensure the little ones in their care got the health benefits of cloth–they also kept two semi truck loads of diapers out of the landfill in their first year of operation. Wow! On follow-up, they said this decision was the one that they were finding EASIEST to maintain.
You can learn more about The Green Mama, including lots of tips for how parents and childcare providers can grow greener, at http://www.thegreenmama.com.
Thanks again.

manda aufochs gillespie
founder/president

the green mama, llc
m: 604–417-6888
general line: 773–299-8502

growing greener families

http://www.TheGreenMama.com
http://www.twitter.com/thegreenmama
http://www.facebook.com/TheGreenMamaLLC
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/the-green-mama/

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