Safer Cleaning Stuff and Tips for Your Home

A new study just released by EWG in California says that toxic cleaner fumes could contaminate classrooms. Widely used cleaning supplies emit more than 450 contaminants into the air, including chemicals that trigger asthma and may be linked to cancer.

Think about all the chemicals that we are encouraged to buy for our home as well: stuff to clean windows, baby's room, ovens, toilets, even vegetables! How many of those cleaners can we really trust? This is a quote from the press release:

Popular Household Brands are also a Big Problem:
The 20-plus cleaning products EWG tested included a handful of popular brands such as Comet Disinfectant Powder Cleanser, which produced 143 air contaminants when used as directed, more than any other product tested. Comet fumes included formaldehyde, benzene, chloroform, and four other chemicals identified by the state of California as causing cancer or reproductive harm. Among the others tested were the general purpose cleaner Simple Green and the air freshener Febreze Air Effects, which produced 92 and 88 air contaminants, respectively.

Here are some Safe Cleaning Tips for Your Home Environmental Working Group

Holiday Decorating: Enough Stuff Says Scrooge

Are you seeing all the Christmas decorating stuff in stores these days. Last week I saw a blowup supersize mechanical Santa that moons people driving by your house. A Christmas dream!!

This year try to buy less stuff for decorating or at least buy smarter and greener. Here's a blog with some suggestions.

Ideal Bite Center of Attention: "Holiday Decorating
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Feeling Fluish?

The marketing bandwagon is in full swing selling us pills and potions to protect us from the flu (especially since the government is making such a hash of it.)

This morning on the news the guest came with a whole table full of bottles and jars of vitamins and concoctions. As a parting shot she said you might actually try Grandma's home remedy of chicken soup. Seems Grandma knew what she was talking about.

If you decide to try the good-for-you food route, here's an article about organic foods actually being healthier in this flu season. Apparently when you take away all the chemicals of regular farm industries, the plants actually produce more of the good stuff to protect themselves from disease and thereby are better for us when we eat them.


Organic food might reduce heart attacks - 14 March 2002 - New Scientist

Ideal Bite | Winter Games

There's frost on the roof today. Welcome November!
Consume less fuel this winter by winterizing your home. Here's one checklist from Ideal Bite.
Ideal Bite | Winter Games

Climate Change Video

Consumerism and the environment are inextricably linked! Most who support the latter are aware of the dangers of the first.

In Canada we now face the shameful reality of being one of the worst nations when it comes to accumulating stuff and one of the worst when it comes to government action to care for creation.

Check out this video.