Attachment Parenting &
Eco-Businesses


A great example of someone who has been successful at combining Attachment Parenting and environmentally sound business practices is Catherine McDiarmid, owner of Born to Love, (www.borntolove.com) a Canadian cloth diapering mail order business. Born to Love has been in operation for 17 years, and Catherine works from home. She reports that "with 85% of Canadian babies wearing "disposable" single-use diapers, that adds up to a total of some 1.7 billion diapers per year in Canada alone. They chop down 2.4 million trees to make these diapers and when you count the non-renewable resources, such as natural gas, used to make the diapers and their packing material, I felt that I had to try to make an impact." Cloth diaper advocates cite our already overflowing landfills and the risk of infection and disease from disposable diapers that are improperly disposed of as some of the main reasons to use cloth.

Alison Trider, owner of Slightly Crunchy, (www.slightlycrunchy.com) a company that sells Attachment Parenting items, advises parents to breastfeed. "This means savings on formula production, less waste from packaging, less water used, fewer bottles manufactured, more $$ in your pocket!" Allison also notes that "when parents utilize Attachment Parenting, we don't need all the fancy toys & gizmos (playpens, fancy strollers, baby swings, walkers, etc, etc)