"Why can't I have Lunchables?"

Even though my daughter is only 2 ½, I can almost hear the wailing begin. As a parent, trying to cut down on disposable packaging can be a trying task. With all the "cool" (read "wasteful, unhealthful") stuff on the grocery store shelves strategically aimed at kids, the teachable moments are many. A kid's desire and elemental reasoning can be mortal enemies.

Danny Seo shows how house plants can brighten up a home and help you live a green lifestyle. Eco-living can be economical, fun, and functional in the LIME Original Series, Simply Green with Danny Seo. It’s a hip and modern take on the classic reuse, reduce, recycle rules, with simple but stylish ideas for going green!

Danny Seo shows off the innovative ways urban dwellers are going green. City-gal Cheryl Terrace built a chic Tribeca loft with healthy construction methods, and filled it with colorful eco-friendly designs.

Michel Nischan takes a tour around Renee Loux's kitchen as she explains the benefits of green cleaning; from homemade cleaning products to earth friendly items, Renee explains why it's important to go green.

Dr. Andrea Pennington is building an eco-friendly baby room! Find out how easy it is to keep your newborn healthy and well, without products that harm the environment. Andrea learns about the best linens and baby furniture, the benefits of eco-friendly diapers, and how to use feng shui in baby’s room!

Another day, another neurosis about eating right and living a good life. Su Avasthi on why it ain't easy being green.

It might not always seem true, but most of us do care about the environment and want more sustainable choices as consumers. At the same time, we've become more design-obsessed, with Michael Graves and Todd Oldham making sleek toasters and chairs for the big-box retailers, while style-purveyors like IKEA and West Elm continue to proliferate. It's only natural that as interest in and access to contemporary design increases, earth-conscious consumers now demand modern style as well. The "crunchy" aesthetic, once the standard among green shoppers, no longer suits us all.

I see there’s a flushable diaper in town. My town, to be precise. gDiapers are based in Portland, OR, where clean, green living is ingrained. Flushable diapers hold the promise of not choking the landfills for the next 500 years (the time it takes a traditional disposable to degrade. They are not bleached with dioxins and the ingredients get “re-absorbed back into the eco-system in a neutral or beneficial way.” You can even compost them (JUST the wet ones though). The flushables are manufactured in the USA from sustainably farmed trees made into fluffed wood pulp. The covers are cotton and elastene, the diaper liners are breathable polyurethane coated nylon, not PVC. They are made in China, though under China Labour Watch, and the company claims to be continually looking for ways to improve working conditions of their labor force. They sound like an eco-Mom’s dream come true (well, after a full night of sleep and one uninterrupted, non-baby related conversation).

Eco-conscious college living: not just for off-campus hippies cooped up in co-ops anymore! At the University of California-Berkeley, sophomore Rachael Robertson lives in what’s being billed as America’s first green dorm room, replete with energy-saving devices and a free supply of natural toiletries.

Check out the latest green-lifestyle newsflashes in The Grist List: U.S. manufacturers will begin selling biodegradable socks made from corn next year. A group of Southern California surfers is protesting a planned highway that could damage a legendary break in California known as Trestles. Sony Pictures just picked up “EV Confidential,” a whodunit documentary about the death of the electric car (green celeb Tom Hanks is all over the trailer). And the foxy young eco-warrior Thomas Hand – of Project BioBus and the Road to Detroit campaign – now has a spot of honor in Cosmopolitan magazine's 2005 Bachelor Blowout. Hand describes his love of the outdoors and why a single flower bests a dozen roses.