Green Options » MCS http://greenoptions.com/tag/mcs Posts tagged 'MCS' Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:56:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/10/02/naturally-clean-the-seventh-generation-guide-to-safe-healthy-non-toxic-cleaning/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/10/02/naturally-clean-the-seventh-generation-guide-to-safe-healthy-non-toxic-cleaning/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:56:34 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/10/02/naturally-clean-the-seventh-generation-guide-to-safe-healthy-non-toxic-cleaning/ The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic CleaningDid you know that the Greek root of the word “ecology” means “house”?  If everyone created a healthy, green environment in our homes, it would extend to the greater good for the planet.  My evolution into environmentalism began with caring about endangered species issues to natural beauty products to vegetarianism to green cleaning.  Seventh Generation and the Children’s Health Envrionmental Coalition’s Blue Buttefly.org have teamed up to create a green cleaning guide for safer homes titled Naturally Clean:  The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning.

Naturally Clean is written by Jeffrey Hollender, Geoff Davis, Meika Hollendar, and Reed Doyle. The book is divided into seven sections:

  1. Case for Change at Home: These chapters are about the chemicals in household cleaners and the negative effects they have on our health, including cancer, asthma, hormone disruptions, and multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS).

    Like almost anything else, there is a good side and a bad side to all the molecular manipulation chemists practice. There are safe chemicals, and there are unsafe chemicals. Our problem today is that we don’t really know which are which.

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