When child No. 3 came around, Nora Cates wondered if there wasn't a better way than shelling out the cash for all those disposable diapers. "It was very expensive," she told me (and as anyone who has ...

THE combination of coffee and cloth nappies could be the first step to easing Mother Nature's worries. A group of parents have met over a cuppa for the first time as part of a movement towards ridding ...

Disposables, cloth. Cloth, disposables. Fifty years after Procter & Gamble introduced affordable throwaway diapers, dubbing them Pampers, the battle over baby's bottom rages on. The brand brought on a ...

DESPITE higher costs and environmental concerns, nearly all Australian parents still use disposable nappies for their babies, a survey has found. The consumer organisation Choice surveyed 1,217 ...

Tucked in between the towering trees and beautiful beaches of WA's southern coast, the small town of Denmark has developed a reputation for being a "green" haven. For years, Denmark has attracted ...

After his daughter was born, Alon Cohen couldn’t stop thinking about the number of diapers the family was sending to landfill. In the past, he and his wife had taken out the trash once a week; now it ...

In March, the Green Lantern wondered: Are cloth diapers really better for the environment than disposables? The piece is reprinted below. I’m about to have my first child, and my husband and I are ...