Fleurville Eco-Friendly Diaper Bags

Let us gladly elaborate on the function, style and environmentally friendly diaper bag that Fleurville has designed for the busy parent in mind. Let us explain. . .

Eco-Friendly? How? This bag is PVC free which means that is free of ployvinyl chloride (PVC). In its production fleurville explains that "PVC fuses vinyl chloride molecules with toxic metals such as lead and cadmium which are added as plasticizers and stabilizers" thus creating harmful byproducts.

So why would any manufactuer use this method? Guess. . .it's cheap. Fleurville is committed to providing PVC free bags because it's an environmentally sustainable method. And it doesn't end there--Fleurville makes their diaper bags and totes with Green-LAM . Green-LAM repels moisture, is resistance to UV rays and is ultra durable.

Functional? How? Well let us brag that we've used this bag and it is wonderful! What we love the most is that you can reach in with one hand. Any mama and daddy know that after having a baby, we are only able to use one hand many times, especially if we have a toddler at our feet as well. The Mothership is ultra functional, with a removable insulated bottle holder, changing pad, a zippered sack which is leak proof, a carabiner/key clip for those wandering keys, multiple interior pockets and a shoulder strap that --gasp--stays on one's shoulders. The Mothership is ultra spacious--a godsend for us--as we are parents of 2 in diapers.

A must have? Yes! Where do you find it? Right here at VannyBean--just click on the picture above.

Thank You Pure-Ecommerce

Now that we have launched VannyBean, we want to thank Pure Ecommerce for their guidance and expertise they have offered us since VannyBean's inception. It is Pure Ecommerce's guidance that has allowed us to be bold and take steps to feature such products as organic baby clothes, sustainable "green" nursery furniture, eco-friendly diaper bags, and other accessories for a healthy childhood.
Pure Ecommerce has consulted with us on many different levels including details surrounding product selection, site design, essentials for customer service and ecommerce business practices. It is no doubt, we will continue to seek the helpful advise of Pure Ecommerce to assure we run a successful online business and offer our customers the best in products and assistance.

Thanks Pure E!

Happy Green Bee on the Today show and VannyBean

VannyBean proudly sells Happy Green Bee clothing line, as featured today (October 22nd, 2008) on the NBC Today show. Happy Green Bee's founder, Roxanne Quimby, was able to share her story and philosophy as a Top Female CEO and strong advocate for natural products and organic cotton kids clothing. You might know her more from her former company, Burt's Bees, which she recently sold for hundreds of millions.
Ms. Quimby's new pet project is Happy Green Bee whose mission is "to create cheerful gender-free clothing with sustainable earth friendly manufacturing practices in an effort to meet and increase the demand for organic children's clothing that not only looks and feels great but is contributing in positive ways to the welfare of our planet."
Happy Green Bee—a company producing organic cotton playwear for infants and children—creates children's clothing and accessories made with nontoxic dyes and no chemical bleaches or finishers. In addition, Happy Green Bee products are made in fair-trade-certified factories that are monitored for worker health and safety.

Happy Green Bee's site www.happygreenbee.com provides useful, yet alarming information on conventional cotton practices. Read below to better understand why organic cotton is not only wonderful for your baby, but for the planet

"Clothing made with organically grown cotton does not retain toxic residues; it is a pure, natural, and breathable fiber.
Before the 1950s, cotton-growing mainly involved sustainable techniques, but now cotton is one of the most environmentally damaging crops grown in the world, resulting in wide-scale water pollution, chronic illness in farm workers, and calamitous effects on wildlife. Conventionally grown cotton occupies only three percent of the world's farmland, but uses 25 percent of the world's chemical insecticides, including Parathion, which is at least 30 times more toxic than DDT! As insects develop pesticide resistance over time, farmers desperate to keep up yields often resort to genetically modified cottonseed and heavier and heavier cocktails of pesticide poisons. Ironically, less than ten percent of those chemicals actually accomplish their task—the rest are absorbed into the plants, the soil, the air, the water and eventually, our bodies.
Cotton occupies only 3% of the world's farmland, but uses 25% of the world's chemical pesticides. Worldwide, 25 to 75 million agricultural workers suffer from acute pesticide poisoning" (http://www.happygreenbee.com/)

See Ms. Quimby for yourself at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27319792#27319792

We, at VannyBean, find her to be inspiring.