You inspire and motivate me to continue juggling to give my family and beyond the best of who I am.

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As we approach Earth Day 2011, demand thorough, accurate coverage in your local media of reusable cloth diapers, a solution that reduces waste by half for households with babies in cloth diapers. At minimum, cloth diapers have a 40% less impact on the environment than do single-use throwaway diapers.

That was the Question of the Day back in January when Judy Aagard of Tiny Tots Diaper Service in California approached us with the idea of doing a simultaneous cloth diaper change. It sounded fun, and we loved the idea of tying it to longer-term cloth diaper advocacy efforts, but we had never done anything like this before.

Executive Director’s Note: I’ve had the opportunity to work with Catherine Bolden, of The Willow Store, on several RDA projects, and have found her to be consistently willing and helpful.  I finally had the opportunity to meet her in person at the Real Diaper Industry Association annual meeting this fall.  Talking with her, I realized [...]

The Real Diaper Association is pleased to announce the formation of two new Real Diaper Circles, led by two great leaders.
Selina Francis, of Delaware, came to cloth diapers first as a low-income mother trying to save money. Years later, her experience as an aesthetician made her aware of the chemical components of disposables and she [...]

Since the party goes so quickly AND there was ANOTHER cloth diaper Twitter party going on at the same time (my cup runneth over!), I wanted to make sure our followers had a chance to catch the highlights.  First of all, thanks to our sponsors, @TheWillowStore and @FuzLife, for providing great prizes at the party!

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This post was written in response to questions over at The Mommy Blog and is cross-posted here with permission.
Emily of Mommy Made Green had the following questions to kick off this wool segment: “”The one area of cloth diapering I haven’t tried yet is wool, I would love to learn more about wool. What are [...]

Using cloth diapers will save thousands of dollars over the 2-3 years of your baby’s diapering phase. Getting started doesn’t have to be expensive. Avoid purchasing everything your baby will need from birth to potty learning at the very beginning. Buy only what you need for the current stage of your baby (or newborn if [...]

Yesterday, we (RDA) received notification that we weren’t invited to submit a full grant proposal for a grant for which we had submitted a letter of inquiry. I spent a few hours sobbing over tea and some overly sweet cookies. Okay, I didn’t do that, but I was pretty bummed – I had thought we [...]

Thanks to all who participated – the photo contest was a huge success! We had lots of high-quality entries – – look to see some of the photos appearing in our materials in the coming year!
Huge thanks also to our sponsors, who are providing all of the prizes for this contest!! We had [...]