One of the obstacles I have encountered to raising my kids fully green is that it’s hard to find the stuff you need. The big baby chains do carry BPA-free bottles, but the closest one is a good 20-minute drive away. Cloth diapers? Forget it – I got the ones I have been using from someone selling them on Craigslist. Otherwise, my option would have been to order a few hundred dollars’ worth of stuff online and hope it works out.
My current brilliant business idea is to start a “green living” store that sells everything you need – Earth-friendly cleaning, garden, and personal care products as well as supplies for making your own, a good selection of cloth diapers so you can see and practice with what you’re buying, humanely raised meats, and inexpensive, US-made organic and recycled-fiber clothes for the whole family (a girl can dream, right?).
According to this article from the Calgary Herald, eco-minded moms and dads there already have many such options, everything from organic baby food lines to consultants who will offer up a tailored plan for greening up your home.
I love this idea. I know there are no shortage of green products out there, but for someone like me who needs to touch and fiddle with something before I buy it, buying online isn’t an option and neither is wasting time and gas driving all over looking for someplace that carries the items I want. Anybody out there in the Rust Belt want to start such a business? I’ll let you have my idea for a lifetime discount….
