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Books on lifestyles and personal choices that are at the same time both healthier and more sustainable. These include reducing toxic chemical use and exposure in the home, choosing health promoting transportation options, and eating for health and sustainability.

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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 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 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 >>

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 commodities that have the greatest environmental benefit. Targets twenty 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 so women can choose the greenest option. More… | Diane MacEachern 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 >>

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 >>

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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