http://realdiaperevents.org Real Diapers. Real Babies Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:41:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 100% Reusable Cloth Diapers campaign has gotten off to a great start. In this first leg of the campaign, RDA members and other cloth diapering experts have been contributing their best advice to help other parents succeed with using cloth diapers at night. We've received more than 50 responses. ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/nighttime-cloth-diapering-roundup I recently attended a screening of The Story of Stuff followed by a talk by its creator, Annie Leonard, hosted by the San Diego Grantmakers coalition. She spoke to a room full of environmental funders about obstacles faced by the movement and she gave them suggestions about where they ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/rda2010 A couple of months ago in our weekly Monday night cloth diapers Twitter chat, a person called @MrMikeSings appeared, talking enthusiastically about the cloth diapers that he uses on his child. In the six months or so that I've been attending these chats, I have seen VERY FEW men ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/meet-mr-mike I met with the Board of Directors of RDA on Friday to talk about the past year and to make plans for 2010. We actually meet via conference call every week to keep on track with our ongoing projects, but like to devote time every year to acknowledging what ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/rda-2009-wrap-up As an organization, Real Diaper Association supports the use of 100% reusable cloth diapers. We are concerned about the waste created by disposable products, no matter whether that waste is sent to a landfill for 1000 years, flushed and disposed of through wastewater treatment, or composted and disposed of as yard ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/100-reusable-cloth-diapers-every-time I am excited to announce that the Real Diaper Association has a accredited a new leader from the Emerald Coast of Florida!  Marissa Evans of Growing Green Bums has finished her leader training in Nonviolent Communication and is implementing her vision for advocating for and supporting parents and caregivers in ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/new-ecrdc For our family, finding a daycare provider willing to use cloth diapers on our baby would be an absolute requirement. Any reasonable daycare provider would either accept our diapers without question or be willing to learn to use them even if they had never seen them before. If ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/tips-for-getting-your-cloth-diapers-into-daycare Our family recently had the opportunity to go down to Panama for three weeks to visit my brother and sister-in-law who run an island resort down there. Since I can't stand the thought of buying disposable diapers (much less putting them on my kids), I, of course, planned to ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/cloth-diapering-in-the-rainforest-a-travel-tale In discussions this summer with the great group of volunteers who were helping with the RDA Real Diapers Real Babies Photo Contest, someone suggested using the winning photo on a one-year calendar magnet. The full-size 12-month calendar of winning cloth diaper photos makes a great gift for all cloth ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/calendar-magnet-from-rda This week, I attended a class on nonprofit volunteer management. I’m part of a local charity working to clean up my state’s dirty air. During the class, I sat next to the organization’s brand new, first paid employee—our Volunteer Coordinator, Erin. At the beginning of our class, ... http://realdiaperevents.org/archives/walking-in-a-leader%e2%80%99s-shoes