Green Babies; our future

When people say 'it's not easy being green' as our beloved Kermit the frog said so many years ago - I hear myself saying, but it is easy, if you have the 'know how' that is; if you live a 'Clean Life'. Unfortunately though at this stage, that is only a partial truth - being Green can still be a daily struggle. Whether you have found yourself thirsty for water on an outing with only plastic bottled options or have been searching for months for a sofa that isn't made with Formaldehyde based glues - being a Yippy (cross between a yuppy and a hippy) has a few difficulties.

At times it can seem impossible to win, you can be putting your heart and soul into being green, to be faced by friends and family, who really can't work out why you care so much. Then there are others that just simply don't know the science behind being green and therefore have no impetus to change. I myself am the first to admit that my change to true modern environmentalism was relatively late and initially triggered more by a concern for health than the world.

My hope is that my generation is the last generation of late adaptors. If we can bring kids up with being 'green' as an every day part of life - perhaps they will be less inclined to continue on our path of excess consumption and environmental degragration.

So whether you bring your kids up with eco-nappies, worm farms, recycling, creative eco-craft, organic food or water wise strategies - remember that it is not just what you are doing now that has benefit - it is the belief system that these actions instill in our children, that will provide ongoing protection for the earth, long after our own eco-funerals.

Did being a good parent just get harder? Possibly, but I am sure we are all up to the challenge.