Craftsbury Kids featured in Reason Magazine
I was interviewed for a piece in the June issue of Reason Magazine regarding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, along with several members of the Handmade Toy Alliance. Here’s an excerpt:
“Leibovitz’s CraftsburyKids.com is one of many websites featuring carefully curated collections of safe toys, books, and clothes for the wary parent. There are sellers to cater to every anxiety about Chinese toys or other threats from the industrialized world. Some emphasize green practices, reusable materials, and local inputs. Others stress tradition, operating on a toy variant of the “slow food” motto, “If your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize it as food, don’t eat it.” Some stand in opposition to big-box stores, striving to offer cheap, communinity-oriented alternatives to Wal-Mart…”
Read the full article at Reason.com/
-Cecilia
