Sustainability is at the forefront of everyone’s minds but I’m hearing the same questions and concerns:
- Does it really matter?
- It’s too expensive to go green or organic!
- How can I make a difference?
- Where in the world do I start?
That’s why I’m SO excited to introduce you to Sustainable Baby Steps!
Sustainable Baby Steps is dedicated to answering the sometimes perplexing question of “How do I go green?” It offers clear, understandable information without the feeling of impending doom. It’s here to help get you started, as well as keeping you going.
It’s about connecting with your sense of purpose, taking small steps toward greener living, and impacting the world around you in a positive way without overwhelming yourself.
I’ve been working long and hard building articles and content to share with the world. Right now you can find:
- Answers to the question, Why Go Green?
- Information about the dangers of pesticides.
- Ways to stop receiving junk mail.
- Ideas to create eco-friendly holidays.
- Over 100 ways to save water.
- And a LOT more!
In the coming months the content will expand to include information on family living, travel, and more ways for you to get involved in the movement.
You can subscribe to the Going Green! monthly newsletter to stay up-to-date with the site, find great information and inspiration and even special offers from sustainable companies.
And right now, Sustainable Baby Steps has joined forces with some of the coolest names in sustainability to bring you…
The Great BIG Giveaway!
In collaboration with some great businesses, Sustainable Baby Steps is hosting a giveaway of multiple awesome, organic and sustainable prizes to get you stepping toward greener living. You can win one of these great prizes:
GladRags is awarding one lucky winner a Color Pad Sampler Kit worth $88.99. This sampler kit includes Day Pads, Night Pads, and Pantyliners, plus a laundry bag for washing and carry bag for on-the-go! Perfect for yourself or as a gift and helps you save money and resources every month!
ECOlunchboxes is offering a $50 ECOlunchbox Kit , which includes ECOlunchbag, 3 matching napkins, Oval ECOlunchbox, bamboo spork. This lunchbox kit is 100% plastic-free, waste-free, lead-free, BPA-free, PVC-free and vinyl-free. In other words, it’s healthy for people and the planet!
Hip Mountain Mama is giving away one $50 gift certificate on any of their Beautiful Handmade ‘Hippie’ Clothing, Natural Wood Toys, Handmade Bags, Natural Art Supplies, Namaste Knitting Bags, Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Products, Unique Gifts, and so much More. Hip Mountain Mama is a Natural Attitude for any Altitude.
AffirmWater is donating a Combo Pack worth $58 – includes 32oz Hope bottle w/ sports cap and loop cap with caribiner, 100% recycled PETE, waterproof bottle carrier, Flat cap, Bottle brush +an Organic cotton Peace tee. It’s the perfect way to ditch plastic water bottles and spread the message!
Rethinking Everything Magazine is giving away a one year subscription! This magazine offers inspiring stories of personal change (monumental, earth-shattering, life-altering change! This subscription also includes access to all back issues as well!
Mountain Rose Herbs is providing one lucky winner with an Epicurean Organics gift package, including one bottle each of organic Rainbow Peppercorns, organic Pumpkin Seed Oil, Pumpkin Pie Spice, and West Indies Rub. All of these delicious gourmet ingredients are certified organic and Kosher, packaged in reusable/recyclable glass containers, with 100% post consumer waste labels, and 2% of all proceeds are donated to the Organic Farming Research Foundation.
Bag the Habit is contributing a Luxe Tote in Plum and 2-Pack of Reusable Produce Bags! The Luxe bag includes padded handles, premium recycled fabrics, and a sewn-in carrying pouch that doubles as an interior pocket. Because it’s not about hating plastic – it’s about loving your reusable bag!
Lily’s Garden Herbals is offering their specialty Lily’s Garden Herbals Product Sampler, including 2 oz All Purpose Clean, 2 oz Glass Clean, 2 oz Bowl Clean, 1 oz Wood Clean, as well as 2 oz Poison Ivy External Use tincture and .5 oz Boo-boo Goo all made by herbalist Kim Falcone using organically grown herbs and high-quality essential oils to create non-toxic cleaning and household products.
Soapberry’s Soapnuts is gifting one winner a 7 oz Soapberry’s Soapnuts, good for approximately 70 loads and including detailed instructions and uses with 2 washing bags. Soapnuts are your one ingredient laundry soap with dozens more uses and they are completely biodegradable, organic, sustainable & hypoallergenic.
BioBag is offering a BioBag Sample Pack which includes 1 Max Air compost bucket, 1 box of Food Waste Bags (25 bags), 1 box of Tall Kitchen Bags (13 bags), 1 box of Lawn & Leaf bags (5 bags) and 1 box of Dog Waste Bags (50 bags). All BioBags are certified compostable., made from GMO Free Crops and contain NO polyethylene. Happy Composting!
Enter To Win!
There are several ways to enter and the more you enter the more chances you have to win!
- Leave a comment telling me one thing you’re doing to Go Green OR what one thing you’d like to know more about.
- Sign up for Sustainable Baby Steps’ Going Green! newsletter
- Add a Sustainable Baby Steps badge to your blog or website!
- Blog about this giveaway, linking back here AND to Sustainable Baby Steps
- Share this giveaway OR the Sustainable Baby Steps website on Facebook.
- Like Sustainable Baby Steps on Facebook
- Tweet this giveaway (you can use the ReTweet button below)
Be sure to add a SEPARATE comment for each entry to have them all counted!
Comments are now closed! Winners will be announced soon!
You have until November 2nd at 8pm(ish) PST to enter to win! All winners will be chosen using Random.org and announced that evening.
I'm Tara Wagner, life coach and creator of the Digging Deep process, where I coach women out of survival mode to recreate their lives and families.
One thing we’ve done to go green is get rid of disposable paper products like paper towels. We’ve got a drawer full of dishtowels and cloth napkins instead around here!
One of my (many) things I’m doing to go green is growing (some) of our own veg
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Am planning to use cloth diapers in a few months when baby is here- would love to know more about best brands and greener laundry options.
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One thing we’ve done is stopped buying aluminum foil and plastic wrap, and plastic containers (using pyrex containers intsead).
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And my green baby-step – I’ve done away with disposable items in the kitchen and am using reusable napkins, towels, and sandwich bags for lunches.
I have a few “green” things I am adament about, particularly: cleaners and reusable bags. These two items are HUGE pet peeves of mine. As for something I would like to know more about: composting in a small Las Vegas back garden.
This is an amazing giveaway and a GREAT blog!
I shared the new website on facebook. Looks good!
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We use cloth instead of paper napkins, floor wipes (for spills), we compost, we recycle, we bring cloth produce bags to the grocery store and to the CSA so we don’t use the plastic bags they provide, we use cloth and canvas shopping bags, we have a low flow toilet and a low flow shower head. We use stainless steel water bottles, we have a filter on the water coming into the house from the city, we have copper piping on all water lines in and pvc on outgoing water, we recycle anything and everything, we shop at thrift shops, consignment shops, dumpster dive, trade, swap, borrow or go without until we happen to find something we have needed on the side of the road! Amazing what people throw out!
We’ve taken a couple baby steps around here. We shop farmers markets, compost and have made growing our own food an educational family activity. We just harvested the last of this summer’s watermelons.
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We’re moving to 5 acres and starting a sustainable fiber farm (or as close to it as we can get) we’re using a composting sawdust toilet, reclaimed rain water and reducing our footprint to under 700 square feet for 7 people.
Our babysteps are more for an ogre sized baby
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We are trying to add new things all the time. We use cloth napkins, started a garden, bring our own grocery bags, use rain barrels, etc. In the process of selling all belongings and hitting the road. i would love to know more about “greening” our RV/bus when we get it.
We are switching to cloth napkins and also getting rid of paper towels in the kitchen!
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I just liked the facebook page! : )
Awesome Site Tara!
My husband and I have improved a few different areas, though we aren’t nearly as far as we should be! I recently got a new car and really went for smaller, more fuel efficient as my priorities. We want to run a car on veg oil, but the timing/home situation isn’t right for that project right now!
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We have eliminated paper towels and napkins. I made rags and fabric napkins. I thought it would be much harder than it is but it’s going great. What great prizes.
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I use cloth menstrual pads instead of disposables. It’s cut way back on the trash.
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I’ve been reexamining our material possessions. Reusing and recycling lots of stuff as I get rid of it, as well as re-examining what comes into out home.
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I’ve decided to go vegan recently. I’ve been vegetarian since I was 10, but have been quite dependent on dairy for most of those years. I guess I never realized how awful the dairy industry is, and how much it supports the meat industry.
I try to minimize my impact in every way I can… and try to teach others about what I learn as I actively seek out information about the choices I make in my life.
What a fabulous giveaway! Thanks for the chance!
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One of the thing I doe to be “Green” is cloth diapering my daughter!
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Just blogged about the giveaway.
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I told the world about your giveaway and your new site on facebook. =)
Leave a comment telling me one thing you’re doing to Go Green OR what one thing you’d like to know more about.
We’ve gotten rid of many disposable paper products, replacing them with cloth.
I try to be green in a variety of ways — the basics, reduce, reuse, recycle — and buying local and organic whenever possible — even learning to make my own food products like jams, cheese, and sodas!
I am pretty new to tweeting, but I think I just retweeted about your new site…? lol
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My baby steps: Well they are the normal ones, like using our own drinking bottles rather then buying plastic. I use reusable bags at the grocery even for produce and grains. I use the diva cup. We worm compost. No chemicles in our home, just essential oils and vinegar for cleaning. We drive a hybrid, all though it still takes gas at least it gets 48 miles a gallon, although I would love to read an article on your new site talking about weather or not hybrids are actually good/bad on the envirnment or not. My big thing is consumerism, I am not a fan. I try very hard to only buy products that are made in the USA, which really helps curve the spending and thoughtless shopping. Any ways nothing uber amazing but babysteps. I love the concept of your new site, cant wait to dig through it, and learn some new tricks!!!
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I’ve gone Green by using GladRags for past couple years now as well as Diva Cup and The Moon Cup/The Keeper cups. I feel very good since I’ve done this.
I’ve also gone Green by using as many natural, household ingredients for as many uses as possible before buying products to clean with. These are: White and Apple Cider Vinegar, Honey, Salt, Lemon Juice, Hydrogen Peroxide, Baking Soda, Olive Oil. Since then, I’ve discovered that Baking Soda makes the best underarm deoderant, as well as a great teeth whitener and cleanser. Honey is great for the hair and skin and for acne and healing of some wounds/scratches, Lemon Juice and Olive Oil make a great floor and furniture cleaner and polish, and the list goes on!
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We’ve taken several steps including cloth-everything for diapering, elimination communication (diaper-free!), vermicomposting and outdoor composting, cloth hankies (two layers of flannel), cloth menstrual pads and Diva Cup, reusable containers, vinegar and baking soda cleaners, enviro-friendly detergents… but there’s always more we can learn and try!
We go green by recycling, living simply, and being mindful of where our food comes from.
Would love to hear more about green beauty (an area I still have a lot of bad habits in LOL)
congratulations on your new venture!
and, hooray! I’m a newsletter subscriber now, too
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one of the many things we have done is recycle LOTS of stuff, since our program allows so much, I cram a ton into the can they gave us to use. We also compost a ton of stuff in a ginormous pile, especially when cleaning out the pantry. crackers, old soup mixes (the spice & bean ones that get pushed to the back til they get found 6 yrs later), etc, all into the pile. I use as much glass for leftovers instead of disposable containers. I try to create less so that I don’t have to find a way to recycle or re-use it.
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I use cloth menstrual pads.
Love it Tara! Well, I am anti-consumerism, live simply, avoid plastic, cloth everything, crunch, crunch, crunch…dreadlocked so I don’t have to waste my energy or the environment’s energy on using hairdryers, straighteners. I make organic lotion and shampoo for eczema so I don’t have to consume other more commercialized products. I purchase local or handmade. I am anti-commerical products and find that even in the hippy towns -some stores that I won’t name are becoming more commercialized and it makes me not want to buy from them. I love farms because without farms we would have no food (or food I wouldn’t want to eat, NO GMO) I like real sugar and not hfcs. I love pretty grocery bags, tupperware not ziplocked, water out of filtered tap not water bottles.
am retweeting it now. (the button doesn’t work where i’m at now-blocked, but I will rT it.)
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We do as much as we can to lighten our load on the planet. We’ve switched to reusable almost everything, napkins, towels, washcloths, diapers, mama pads, water bottles, etc. a few years ago and it’s just a part of our lives now. We recycle as much as we can, we buy almost all second hand clothes, furniture, household items. With 5 kids, I feel like we need to be as diligent as possible about taking care of our lovely planet. I’m busy right now collecting second hand hankies to use this winter instead of tissues. We’re still a long way from where we should be, but we’re getting there!
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I just stumbled on this via a fb post from gladrags! What a great idea, I’m looking forward to reading up on your blog.
The two main things we do to go green are cloth diapering our children and I aslo use cloth pads about 50% of the time. I would love to expand my stash enough to go cloth 100% but I’m working on it!
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I am hanging all of my laundry to dry! I’ve made it through October only using the dryer once!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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We buy organic, bring our own bags, buy in bulk and use cloth napkins and cloth to name a few, but we are always looking for new ways to ‘green’ our daily living.