While I am finishing up my vacation, hope you find this post from 2007 helpful in your “green” quests!
By now I am sure that most of you know that bleach is incredibly toxic to both you and the environment around you. As I have mentioned before, chlorine bleach releases dioxin, furans and other organochlorines [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about your feet – and what you can bring into your house by not leaving your shoes at the door. Turns out that 90 to 99% of bacteria found on the exterior of the shoes is transmitted to the floor in your house when you wear your [...]
If you have not seen this documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand yet, you are missing out on a spectacular TV event. I watched it for the first time the other night, but I saved it on my DVR to watch again sometime soon. “Home” is a National Geographic special that illustrates the planet’s fragile state [...]
You know that smell – that freshly painted room that looks great but gives you a headache. In fact, if I am gone all day long and it’s warm out, when I get home I can still smell the paint in my house from 4 months ago when the landlord repainted it prior to [...]
