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By Dr. Alan Greene

Dr. Alan Greene

Raising Baby Green

Alan Greene, M.D., is a beloved practicing pediatrician, leading authority, and spokesperson for the green baby movement. Named "the Children's Health Hero of the Internet" by Intel, Dr. Greene teaches at Stanford University School of Medicine.

As Past President of The Organic Center, founding partner of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment and an Advisory Board member of Healthy Child Healthy World, Dr. Greene has an impressively green resume – and a wonderfully down-to-earth perspective. That could be because he has four children himself.

"In my job as a pediatrician at Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University School of Medicine over the last ten years, I've seen how clinical experience, science, research, and technology have increased the choices that doctors and parents can make," says Dr. Greene. "But there’s also an important new set of choices parents can make that can have a beneficial impact on the environment."

Make yourself a promise to reduce water waste with these three simple steps:¹

Fix faucet drips by replacing the washers. Stopping a drip that’s going at a rate of one drop per second saves twenty-five hundred gallons per year.

Decrease hot water use. Install low-flow shower heads or cut your time in the shower to save up to 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

Switch to a tankless water heater to save three hundred pounds of carbon dioxide and as much as $390 a year.

REFERENCES :
1.“Saving Water in the Bathroom.” Eartheasy. www.eartheasy.com
/article_bathroom_water_save.htm.


From Raising Baby Green , Copyright © 2007 by Alan Greene. All rights reserved. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc


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