Fresh and clean

i am going to start this blog by saying, no i am not a saint, no not everything in my possession is 100% eco friendly and organic and yes, i have shopped at walmart once or twice. Not everyone is perfect but what i am getting at is that i have a passion to learn and grow. As i look forward to moving into my first house with my fiance, it is a fresh clean start to living in a way it will not only bring harmony to our life but help make a positive impact on the earth, living together has a natural progression of, marriage, babies, and happily ever after... with all of that on my mind i would like from here out to just be full of ways to keep our home clean safe happy and healthy and do the same to the plant.

My mom, being the hippie i have always known her to be and my dad born in Portland Oregon, raised us with all the basics of a hippie life, love all, do no harm to people, animals, or the earth because all of those things lend a hand in the quality i life we have. The term you body is a temple was always push onto my sisters and i but obviously as children it made no sense. Some days i wake up and wish i had been some sort of baby genius and had retained and not fought everything my parents tried to tech me, that it all clicked when i was a toddler and that way i wouldn't have to start fresh so many times. But, life happens, we live and we learn.

My adventure for today is organic/eco friendly bedding. i mentioned this to my fiance and like a typical man his response was "whats wrong with the ones we have?' then i proceeded to explain to him what was so wrong with cotton, and i still dont think anything clicked. So for those of you who are like my fiance and need proof i have done a little home work for you. Some of this stuff i knew but still shocked me, it breaks my heart that we just let companies like the continue...

Whats wrong with cotton?


"The nonprofit Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) reports that cotton uses 2.5 percent of the world’s cultivated land yet uses 16 percent of the world’s insecticides—more than any other single major crop."

"Three of the most acutely hazardous insecticides, as determined by the World Health Organization, are well represented among the top 10 most commonly used in producing cotton. One of them, Aldicarb, “can kill a man with just one drop absorbed through the skin,” says OTA, “yet it is still used in 25 countries and the U.S., where 16 states have reported it in their groundwater.”

"that the fertilizers used on cotton are the most detrimental to the environment, running off into freshwater habitats and groundwater and causing oxygen-free dead zones in water bodies."

"A third of global cotton cropland and 45 percent of world cotton production now uses genetically engineered seeds. This poses a whole other set of issues, as some scientists fear that the proliferation of such “Frankenseeds” can lead to pest immunities and even the unleashing of so-called “super pests” that can resist virtually any pesticide."