Lynda Fassa, Green Babies

 
Lynda Fassa, Green BabiesLynda founded Green Babies, the world’s oldest organic cotton baby clothing company, out of her New York City apartment 15 years ago after the birth of her first daughter.

Green Babies can be found in hundreds of better specialty stores and is a featured staple in Whole Foods Markets and Wegmans Markets. Hundreds of thousands of babies have been clothed in Green Babies, including many celebrity children.

Green Babies recently opened their first free standing store Green Babies, An Environmental Store in historic Nyack, NY. The store is a showcase of natural and safe choices for babies and families.

Lynda is on an eco-mission to make green choices easy and fun for today’s busy families. In addition to her work with Green Babies, Lynda has authored two books on her philosophy the “natural is better”: Green Babies, Sage Moms and Green Kids, Sage Families, both from NAL Penguin.

The non-food expert for the Organic Trade Association, Lynda lives in Westchester County, NY, with her husband and three daughters.
Why Does Wearing Organic Cotton Matter If We Don’t Eat It?

Why Does Wearing Organic Cotton Matter If We Don’t Eat It?

Lynda Fassa, founder and designer of Green Babies

Fifteen years ago when I founded Green Babies, the term “green” was so disassociated from fashion (or anything else for that matter), that people would ask my husband and business partner: “Green Babies, what’s that?” And he’d answer, “It’s an adoption agency for Martian children.” “Oh”..they’d say, slowly nodding and backing away. Sometimes I’d tell them what it really was and they looked equally perplexed. Things have changed, for the much better and brighter, but the question still remains: Why does organic cotton matter?


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