What We're Reading: "Raising Baby Green"

"In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care—from feeding your baby the best food available to using medicines wisely. Consumer advocate Jeanette Pavini includes information for making smart choices and applying green principles to a whole new universe of products from zero-VOC paints for the nursery, to pure and gentle lotions for baby's delicate skin, to the eco-friendly diapers now in the marketplace, as well as specific recommendations for hundreds of other products."

Accolades include:

• Winner of the Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal for “BEST PARENTING BOOK OF THE YEAR”
• Dr. Greene provides a lucid, helpful guide for parenting in the 21st century." —Julius B. Richmond, MD, Harvard Medical School, Founding Director of Project Head Start, and Former U.S. Surgeon-General
• "I found Raising Baby Green a wonderful guide to raising healthy babies and children. The book reflects Alan Greene's evolution as a pediatrician and it brings together science, expert opinion and experiential knowledge in an easy-to-follow book. It is a gem." —Philip Lee, MD, Former United States Assistant Secretary of Health, Chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco, Professor at Stanford University
• "Dr. Alan Greene is the passionate voice for those just born and those not yet born. Listen to him."—Walter Robb, president, Whole Foods Market

"Raising Baby Green" is available as part of CGB's Lending Library. To learn more about Dr. Greene, click here.