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The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes. By Dan Chiras. An overview of the pros and cons of fourteen natural building methods. Includes straw bale, rammed earth, cob, cordwood, adobe, earthbags, papercrete, and more. The common goal is to create a house that is economical, energy efficient, nontoxic, and pleasing. This comprehensive sourcebook offers in-depth information that will guide your choice of the materials and methods for building a sustainable natural home. More… | Dan Chiras EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Healthy Home: An Attic-To-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living. By Linda Mason Hunter. The Healthy Home provides scientific information, helpful statistics, and comprehensive advice on how to make your home safe. It includes chapters on water, indoor air quality, hazardous household products, furnishings, pets, and safety. It also includes a healthy home inspection checklist as well as a section of recipes for homemade nontoxic household products such as scouring powders and dishwater soaps. More... | Linda Mason Hunter EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Complete Organic Pregnancy. By Deirdre Dolan & Alexandra Zissu. How to minimize your exposure to the toxins in everything from food, cleaning products, and cosmetics to furniture, rugs, air, and water. Step by step, this book shows you how to choose the right face cream, plastic water bottles, household cleaners, types of fish, and more, and tells you where dangerous chemicals are lurking, why it's so important to avoid them when pregnant, and what you can do before, during, and after your pregnancy to protect your child. More… | Deirdre Dolan EcoSpeakers Info >>

Creating a Safe & Healthy Home. By Linda Mason Hunter. Shows homeowners how to take back control and manage home health and safety in a responsible way. The book shows you how to diagnose common health and safety issues around the home, and gives practical techniques for correcting these potentially life-threatening problems. A wide range of home health and safety issues are covered, including carbon monoxide, radon gas, asbestos, lead, formaldehyde, water contaminants, and accident hazards, as well as making your home secure against intruders. Provides practical, step-by-step instructions that show how to remedy these problems. More... | Linda Mason Hunter EcoSpeakers Info >>

Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World. By Diane MacEachern. Explains how women can harness the "power of their purse" and intentionally shift spending to products and services that have the greatest environmental benefit. Targets twenty types of products, including cars, cosmetics, coffee, food, paper, appliances, and cleansers, where women's dollars can make a dramatic difference. Provides easy-to-follow guidelines and lists to help women choose the greenest options. More… | Diane MacEachern EcoSpeakers Info >>

Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home. By Linda Mason Hunter and Mikki Halpin. A step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic, ecofriendly products. Room-by-room and stain-by-stain, Green Clean breaks environmentally conscious cleaning into simple principles and easily mastered techniques that let readers set their own goals and develop their own cleaning plan. Also includes recipes for safe, simple, and economical cleaning solutions as well as the lowdown on the best eco-friendly cleaning products on the market today. More... | Linda Mason Hunter EcoSpeakers Info >>

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Better Basics for the Home. By Annie Bond. Offers more than 800 simple and practical alternatives to common household toxins, covering everything from skin care to gardening. More… | Annie Bond EcoSpeakers Info >>

Clean & Green. By Annie Bond. The result of years of experimentation. Not only an encyclopedia for environmental cleanliness, but also a laundry list of solutions for everyday. More… | Annie Bond EcoSpeakers Info >>

Diet for a Poisoned Planet: How to Choose Safe Foods for You and Your Family. By David Steinman. An in-depth look at the contaminants in foods. Steinman also tells his own story of fishing in the Santa Monica Bay as a child and how he went on to testify before Congress as an expert witness on the contamination of his own body by the fish he ate. More… | David Steinman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Home Enlightenment: Practical, Earth-Friendly Advice for Creating a Nurturing, Healthy, and Toxin-Free Home and Lifestyle. By Annie Bond. A comprehensive guide to creating a toxin-free, environmentally friendly home with an eye toward bringing health and harmony to those living there and those living on the earth as a whole. More… | Annie Bond EcoSpeakers Info >>

Human Biology. By Dan Chiras. Provides students with a clear and concise introduction to the general concepts of mammalian biology and human structure and function. With a focus on health and homeostasis, Human Biology enhances students' understanding of their own health needs and presents the scientific background necessary for students to think critically about biological information they encounter in the media. The completely revised content and new art and photos provide students with a more user-friendly text, while learning tools maximize comprehension of the material. More... | Dan Chiras EcoSpeakers Info >>

Human Body Systems: Structure, Function And Environment. By Dan Chiras. Written for readers who want to learn about their bodies, it focuses primarily on the organ systems that comprise the body. Readers will learn the main parts of each system and how they operate, as well as what happens when things go wrong. More... | Dan Chiras EcoSpeakers Info >>

Prosperity Without Pollution: The Prevention Strategy for Industry and Consumers. By Joel Hirschhorn. Explains why only a preventive environmental strategy can work. Growing population, consumption, and industrialization cripple current, rather haphazard, remedial efforts. More... | Joel Hirschhorn EcoSpeakers Info >>

The Safe Shopper's Bible: A Consumer's Guide to Nontoxic Household Products, Cosmetics, and Food. By Dave Steinman and Samuel S. Epstein. Rates thousands of household products, personal care products, foods, and beverages. Its extensive charts list products by brand name and rate them each for short-term and long-term health hazards. Readers can find out at a glance which products are more or less likely to provoke allergies or irritation, cause birth defects or cancer, trigger neurological problems, or pose other health hazards. In addition, the charts provide recommendations for the safest foods, toiletries, and everyday household purchases. More... | Dave Steinman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown. By David Steinman. Draws the connection between personal health and a healthy environment and argues both that global warming is a greater threat to national security than terrorism and that a "sound environmental policy" will enhance our standing in the world and strengthen our economy. More… | David Steinman EcoSpeakers Info >>

Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth. By Diane MacEachern. Covers a wide range of environmentally protective actions in home, apartment, garden, garage, supermarket, school, office, and community. More... | Diane MacEachern EcoSpeakers Info >>

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