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Children’s Furniture 
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Healthy & Safe Baby Nursery Know-How
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It would be ideal if everything in a newborn’s nursery were best for the environment in every way—after all, we want to give our children a wonderful world to grow up in. But if you have limited time and resources, the most important task of green design for a newborn’s environment is to reduce exposure to toxic materials. |
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Elements of a Green Baby Nursery
The most important aspect of green design for a newborn’s environment is to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals as much as possible. A nontoxic nursery is especially important because newborns spend most of their life in the nursery—an average of 16 to 17 hours a day.