Gwyneth Paltrow – An Eco Friendly Parenting Perspective
An Eco Friendly Parenting Perspective from Celebrities
In the book Healthy Child, Healthy World, author Christopher Gavigan spoke to many celebrities about what small changes they’ve made to contribute to the health of the planet and create a more wholesome environment for their families. Adapting an eco friendly lifestyle doesn’t have to be the extreme image and single-handedly saving the Earth. It can be something as simple as becoming more in tuned to what the ingredients of what you put in and on your body or use around your home. Or making your children aware of how precious our natural resources and wild life are.
Here are a few excerpts from Gavigan’s book of celebrities talking about the changes they’ve made and awareness they’ve come to in leading an eco friendly lifestyle for themselves and for their families.
“My mom has always been conscious of the environment and health issues. When I was growing up, we would go to farmers’ markets and even had wheatgrass in the kitchen. She started a curbside recycling program in Santa Monica, CA, in the seventies, and each week I drove with her to the recycling center.
“It wasn’t until later that I understood the harm that can come from pesticides and other chemicals in food. As soon as I did, I tried to eat foods that were organic, grown locally, and not processed or full of preservatives. That was reinforced when I became a parent. When I’d read about what pesticides do to small animals, I thought, Why would I expose my child to that?
“Now, we also do other things to protect our family’s health, from installing a water-filtration system to using nontoxic shampoos. I try to open the windows in the day — an old-fashioned airing out — even in winter, because the air inside the house is often more polluted than the air outside.
“I just want my kids to be as healthy as they possibly can. And I feel like eating well is the best start for living well.”
Gwyneth is an excellent example of how eco-values we’re taught increase by generation. She was fortunate to have been raised by eco-conscious parents and now she has become one herself and is taking it to another level. Her children will then pick up where she left off and will bring leading an eco friendly life to the next level again.
I am so happy to see this article! Christopher’s book is great, because celebrities influence such a large amount of people. The power of their words and actions is absolutely incredible! It is encouraging to see them being vocal about the need to lead eco-friendly lifestyles, because I am doing the same thing, in my own small way, and feel supported and encouraged by this article.
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[...] “My mom has always been conscious of the environment and health issues. When I was growing up, we would go to farmers markets and even had wheatgrass in the kitchen. She started a curbside recycling program in Santa Monica, California, in the ’70s, and each week I drove with her to the recycling center,” Paltrow said to author Christopher Gavigan in his book Healthy Child, Healthy World. (Source: Planet Forward) [...]