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Sanitizing Laundry
When I was at the CleanMed 2010 conference a couple of weeks ago in Baltimore, a nurse asked me how she could sanitize the clothing she wore at the hospital without using chlorine bleach. I personally have never been concerned about killing germs on my clothing, but I...
Make Your Own Laundry Soap/Detergent
While searching for something else, I came across this great page about making your own laundry soap/detergent. It's so good I had to share it with you. If you're interested in doing this, this page has 10 recipes and more than 200 comments from people who have made...
Built It Green
Though this website is oriented to the needs of the San Francisco Bay Area, it contians much general information on green building that is useful anywhere. Their free downloadable Green Building Guidelines are an excellent place to start if you are designing new...
Building Green
A huge amount of information on green building and green building products, compiled and commented on by people who know this field. Their free-access GreenSpec directory contains entries to "more that 1,800 environmentally-preferable building products with...
Bugs ‘R’ Done
Highly effective indoor and outdoor insecticide and repellant that kills and repels disease-carrying cockroaches, flies, mosquitos, fleas, ants and fire ants. Contains "pure orange peel oil, nature's own botanically-derived insecticide. In combination with...
Boxwood Design Studio
Custom-embroidered items for the home made from undyed, durable, absorbant, luxurious linen. Choose from a generous-sized apron, napkins and napkin rings, handkerchiefs, laundry bags and shoe bags, guest towels, and accent pillows. Embroideries include initials,...
Bountiful Gardens
Operated by the non-profit group Ecology Action, they are the only source for all Biointensive and Grow Biointensive™ books, pamphlets, and videos, which teach gardeners the sustainable techniques of growing organic soil while gardening. Training materials in...
Fragrance is Hazardous to Your Health
A new study done by The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics shows that many popular fragrances contain secret chemicals not listed on the labels, and that some of these chemicals are associated with hormone disruption, allergic reactions, and other negative health effects. In...
Botanic Gold
A "nontoxic multi-use botanical soap...the most powerful chemical free all-purpose cleaner available anywhere...has over 1000 uses...a silky golden non-toxic liquid soap powerful enough to completely free your home from all toxic cleaning chemicals including your...
Drain Pipe Repair
Question from yellowflowers We have a 3-4" PVC drain pipe under our house that has come apart. With research, the only choice that I believe we have is to use toxic PVC Cement to glue it back together. I can't seem to find any concrete information about how long it...
