Green Diapers #
Not being a parent, I was going to ignore the Ask Pablo column of yesterday and the Green Lantern column of today (linked above) until I noticed that they’re about the same topic. An interesting time to compare the dueling green-living columnists of Salon and Slate (respectively).
The Lantern, as usual, offers more links to outside sources on the subject, but also draws on his personal experience. Pablo offers some greater history and an interesting and unexpected solution. In the end, they both offer the same answer:
The bottom line is that cloth diapers are greener than run-of-the-mill Pampers and Huggies, as long as you’re committed to an energy-efficient laundry regimen. But that commitment takes more than just an EnergyStar washing machine and a clothing line for air drying. It also takes time, a commodity which will be in startlingly short supply once your offspring drops.