Green Guru Network

Many cleaning products available on the market contain “everyday” carcinogens like formaldehyde and napthelene, reproductive toxins and hormone disruptors, ingredients that cause liver, kidney and brain damage, allergies and asthma.  One cost saving option is to create a simple non-toxic cleaning kits from ingredients you probably already have on hand.

There are a host of products, other than those used for basic cleaning, that often contain carcinogenics. Care2 shares this list, from Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (New Society Publishers, 2007) by Liz Armstrong et al, offering a list of items you can simply eliminate from your home. Read more

Dave Chameides posted this simple article on Care2 highlighting why not to purchase bottled water.  Consider the great alternatives.  Try stainless steel water bottles.  You can get Kleen Kanteens with stainless lined caps.  Avoid plastic. It's that simple Avoid Plastic.  Some folks are resorting to water fountains, bringing a mug with them and filling it when they arrive. Waiting for water until the get to where they are going and asking their host for water

.  We used to "go outside and play" and  thirst was one of the great motivators for heading home to the kitchen.  (What a great opportunity for Mom to check up on us.)