Wow! The air today!

It's time to think about clean air in your home. Everyday there are more, and more factors to include into making your in-home air quality better. Here are some small tips to think about when redecorating your home:

• Use no VOC paint. It takes the paint smell out of your home. For those who suffer from allergies and other breathing problems - this will eliminate any breathing problems along with other risk factors VOC's bring to the table. A great paint company that brings no VOC paint is Yolo paints.
• Use organic fabrics. These fabrics do not have the carcinogens in them that a lot of textile fabrics have. They are completely pesticide free, and can now be found at a lot of local fabric stores. Make sure you look for the organic symbol.
• FSC and Organic furniture. These products may cost a little more, but they help your health in so many ways. Just the use of an organic mattress can help you sleep significantly.
• Natural wood flooring and recycled carpet tiles -- you can never go wrong. When picking out any hard flooring make sure to look for chemicals that you don't want or need. Flooring companies are now coming out with natural stains that won't effect any family members health.

These are just a few suggestions. If you would like more information feel free to email your questions to info@MeandMybabyDesigns.com or check out our newsletter at www.MeandMyBabyDesigns.com.

Happy Earth Day

Wow, Can not believe that Earth Day was started in 1970, and we still have so much to do. Here are just a few things we can do within our own community:

• Campaign for clean air: www.wecansolveit.org is great sight for helping on a local, national, and global level.
• Organic Foods: find out where your local organic farmers markets are. Kansas City has a great one at Minor Park - it is also a fair trade market. Plus, learning how to cook locally grown foods can help in so many ways. Our website(www.meandmybabydesign.com) has information on local markets under Green Connections
• Carpool: Take turns driving our children to school - Or start a local carpool for your work community. It is amazing how much money all of us can save.
• Start Green Cleaning: In schools, offices, and at home. It is so important that we create great indoor air quality,and this is just one of the ways. Our website(www.meandmybabydesign.com) has more information on how to green your cleaning on our MMB Newsletter.
• Start a recycling program: Even if you live in a condo, apartment, townhouse, or house. You can make this happen. Local composting, and having event trips once a month to your local recycling plant helps. Our website(www.meandmybabydesign.com) has information on recycling plants under Green Connection.
• Advocate to your local government about Green Urban Development: Having local parks and bike trails helps with obesity levels. Planting trees helps are air quality. While we are on this subject: Why shouldn't our local cities demand the best environment for ourselves and our families. Why not wind farms? Our they uglier than the power lines? NO! What about reusing the commercial buildings we have and greening them up(LEED Certification), and educating our local builders to have greener practices? It's not that hard...just a little time is needed. Our national government is really starting to step-up the pace - how about the local government step-up too.
• On a family level - why not start advocating for mercury-free vaccines. Shouldn't all children's health be a priority for every ones future.

These are just a few steps... need a starting point bring your totes when shopping. If we all did this WOW the carbon emissions would go down.

Until next blog: Happy Earth Day to all,

Miche

In The Beginning......

Hi Everyone,
Wecome to Me & My Baby Designs new blog site.
Our firm hopes you are able to gain knowledge from the infrmation we bring you. Our firm will show projects, along with interesting material we my find along the way.

The launch of the new website is this Thursday, and we are really hoping everyone enjoys all the information that we have on the site. The new site will include the MMB Newsletter, Green Links national and local, and so much more. The link to the new website will be posted on Thursday at 4:00 p.m. central time.
Enjoy,
Miche McKown-Brown, Allied Member ASID
Owner/Interior Designer