Green Options

David Schiraldi has seen the future and it is clay.  The Case Western Reserve University professor and his research team are developing a clay aerogel that transforms common clay into a super lightweight material that could be used as insulating or packing foams, magnets, conductors, and yes, even high tech kitty litter that weighs only 1/10 as much as conventional clay litter.

How could we not want the safest, healthiest litter for this little lady?

Our hunt for an alternative cat litter began when our vet said that clay litter was a respiratory irritant. The more we researched cat litter, the more we learned that clay wasn’t just bad for our sweet kitties, it was bad for the planet. Clay, which makes up about 90% of the cat litters on the market, does not biodegrade. On top of that, much of the clay used in cat litter comes from strip mining. Yikes! Luckily there are all sorts of good options out there!

Editor's note: We're happy to introduce the newest member of the Green Options blogging team, Eldad Granot. Eldad owns a sustainable marketing company in Raanana, Israel, and will cover sustainable business and development in his home country.

You, too, may find it rather intriguing to that the book of Genesis states that the origin of Man is the “dust of the ground” or “clay” (in other translations). Well, science has long

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