Green Living & Eco Friendly Home..Learn To Go Green

Get your home really clean with green cleaning products!

Step-by-step guide reveals how to make your own green energy and start living more eco-friendly! Teaches a very easy and cheap way to build and use a renewable energy system.

There are many improvements people do that can make a house healthier and more environmentally friendly. Take a look at these Eco Friendly Home Improvement Ideas.....

Indoor Air: Believe it or not.....construction materials, insulation, furniture, carpeting, padding, paints, household cleaners, drawn by this moist atmosphere, combine to contaminate the indoor air which then stays trapped inside.

Many homes are full of toxic and nasty air every single day. Perhaps look into an electric friendly air purifier. They can reduce the chemicals floating around in your air and improve the quality of the air in your home.

Our air purifier can be called the best because it helps reduce all three of the major forms of air pollution: particles such as pollen, pet dander, dust, and cigarette smoke; microbes such as mold and bacteria; and gases and odors. That's especially critical since the Environmental Protection Agency consistently ranks indoor air pollution among the top five environmental risks to public health.

Hot Water Heaters: Consider swapping your conventional hot water heater for a solar hot water heater. The great thing about Solar Water Heaters is the fact they the fuel they use is FREE...Sunshine. The downfall to switching, the COST. Solar hot water hearts can ranger well over $2000..

There are two types of active solar water heating systems:.

Direct circulation systems
Pumps circulate household water through the collectors and into the home. They work well in climates where it rarely freezes.

Indirect circulation systems
Pumps circulate a non-freezing, heat-transfer fluid through the collectors and a heat exchanger. This heats the water that then flows into the home. They are popular in climates prone to freezing temperatures.

To get the full benefits of a solar heater you must have an area for the solar collectors that is large enough and has the proper exposure to the sun.

You know that good, healthy feeling you get when you've just cleaned house? Sorry to spoil it, but you may have just made your home dirtier.

Think of it this way. You wouldn't let your kids play with toxic chemicals, so why would you let the baby crawl over a floor that's just been wiped with them? That's much more dangerous than the orange juice that was just there.

How dangerous? Just take a look at these statistics.

• Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home.


• Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involved in poisoning.


• Organic pollutants, found in many common cleaners and even air fresheners, are 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out.


• A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the "acute one-hour exposure limit" for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.


• Common cleaners give off fumes that have been linked to increasing the risk of your kids developing asthma, the most common serious chronic childhood disease.


• 1 in 13 school-aged children has asthma. Rates in children under five have increased more than 160% from 1980-1994.


• Children are highly vulnerable to chemical toxicants. Pound for pound of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food, and breathe more air than adults. The implication of this is that children will have substantially heavier exposures than adults to any toxicants that are present in water, food or air.


• If your home is anything like the average U.S. home, you generate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each year (the EPA designates toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach as hazardous waste).

Many homes are now considered a toxic waste dumps. The average home today contains 62 toxic chemicals. That is more than a chemistry lab! More than 72,000 synthetic chemicals have been produced since World War II, and those are the same chemicals that have been found in many homes across the nation!

Here are some facts about products that are found in many homes.

• Bleach has been linked to reproductive problems in men and learning and behavioral problems in children.


• Everyday household cleaners are the number one cause of poisoning of children.


• Behavioral problems have been linked to exposure to toxic chemicals and molds.


• Carpet cleaner solution is extremely toxic to children. The fumes given off by carpet cleaners can cause cancer and liver damage.


• Laundry detergents, household cleaners and pesticides have been linked to breast cancer.


• Glass cleaner's may contain ammonia. Fumes from ammonia can irritate skin, eyes, and respiratory system.


• Toilet Bowl Cleaners are one of the most dangerous cleaning products. Can contain chlorine and hydrochloric acid. Harmful to health simply by breathing during use.


• Formaldehyde, phenol, benzene and toluene are found in common household cleaners, cosmetics, beverages, fabrics and cigarette smoke. These chemicals are cancer causing and toxic to the immune system.


• An EPA study stated that the toxic chemicals in household cleaners are 3 times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor air.

Four Ways You Can Get Clean

Your home should be the safest, healthiest, cleanest place in the whole world. So we've put together some pretty easy things you can do to make your family safer and your home healthier. And, as it turns out, what's good for your home is good for the earth and everyone else on it, too. So let's make our homes healthy. Let's clean our hearts out. Let's "Get Our Homes Clean".

1. Get the dirt. Educate yourself about what you bring into your home.
   


2. Have a clean-for-all. Put on the gloves and get rid of the nasty stuff in your home. Responsibly, of course. Your local waste collection service has guidelines for proper household hazardous waste disposal, as well as collection sites for things like paint, batteries, and cleaners. Whatever you do, please don't toss this stuff in the garbage.


3. Welcome healthy into your home. Commit to carefully considering everything that crosses your doorstep. Here are some safe, healthy things to have in your home:
   
   
   
   • Cleaners that are truly cleaner. Credentials on Get Green Clean products: nontoxic, natural, biodegradable, concentrated, and hypoallergenic.
     
   
   
   • Fresh air. Open your windows to reduce indoor air pollution.
   
   
   • Plants. Besides being nice to look at, they can absorb harmful gases and help clean the air.
   
   
   • Organic cotton bedding. Avoid standard bedding treated with chemicals.
     
   
   

1. Choose organic produce when you can protect yourself from hazardous chemicals. Non-organic apples, imported grapes, bell peppers, and strawberries, in particular, have large amounts of pesticide residue that has been linked to neurological disabilities in children, Parkinson's and cancer.

2. Use non-toxic personal care products. Some antibacterial soaps and toothpastes contain a chemical called triclosan that can accumulate inside your body and may harm your health.

3. Use non-toxic and natural household cleaning products. Americans use an average of 25 gallons of toxic hazardous chemical products per year in their homes, most of which are in household cleaning products. Many common everyday chemicals can harm your health, causing headaches, skin rashes, eye irritation, coughing, wheezing, and more.

4. Choose flea pills for your dog and cat instead of flea collars or powders. Toxic insecticides in flea and tick collars leave behind hazardous chemicals that can get on your skin, furniture, and floors and linger in your home long after you have used them. Many of the chemicals have been linked to neurological problems such as learning disabilities in children and Parkinson's.

5. Avoid chlorinated household products such as paper towels, toilet paper, and coffee filters because studies have linked chlorine and chlorination by-products to cancer. Unbleached and recycled products can be found at many stores. Buying tissue paper products made from post-consumer content also helps curb global warming pollution and save forests, water, and energy.

6. Drastically cut the amount of energy your computer and monitor use by putting them in sleep mode when they aren't in use. And avoid screen savers- those moving images on your monitor can cost an extra $50 or more of electricity a year!

7. Plug televisions, computer equipment, game consoles and stereos into power strips that can be switched off at night or when not in use. Even when you think these products are off, together their standby consumption can be equivalent to that of a 60-watt light bulb running continuously.

8. Replace regular light bulbs with a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL). A CFL costs more upfront than a standard bulb, but in the end can save you $30 to $60 on electricity during its lifetime-and it keeps 1 ton of global warming pollution out of the air.

9. Inflate your tires once a month or as necessary. If every American kept their tires properly inflated, we could save 2.8 billion gallons of gasoline a year- and help curb global warming pollution.

10. Swap a flight for the train or stay local if you can. Air travel is one of the fastest-growing sources of global warming pollution: the average jet pumps almost 1 ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for every passenger it carries roundtrip from Los Angeles to New York.

The Environmental Protection Agency has denied California's waiver request to cut global warming pollution from automobiles. This decision ignores the science and the law.

Seventeen other states plan to implement similar programs. EPA's action is nothing more than a heavy handed stroke to limit the authority of states to fight global warming and protect our environment.

It is reported that EPA Administrator Johnson's staff even recommended approving the waiver because it met all the necessary standards.

California is leading the country to fight global warming, and the EPA and Administrator Johnson are holding them back.

Click here to sign the petition to let the EPA know this is crazy

The Green Ribbon Pledge is a new initiative to "conserve energy for a secure future". By encouraging energy efficiency, the campaign seeks to raise awareness about the need to end our dangerous dependence on fossil fuel consumption and work toward a sustainable future. Conserving energy is the single most important thing we can do to secure our future from the negative effects of unreliable, unsafe and environmentally damaging energy sources.

This moment in time presents a remarkable opportunity for Americans to work together to create a better future. A future in which the air will be clean, ecosystems will be preserved, economics won't depend on pillaging the Earth and wars killing innocent civilians over oil will cease. This is a realistic vision. A coalition of economists, environmentalists, advocacy groups and concerned citizens have endorsed the Green Ribbon Pledge as a solution to reduce our excessive energy consumption and demand alternatives. Fundamentally, the Green Ribbon Pledge strives to spark lifestyle changes that will ripple through America leading to true security that can only be found in smart, safe and sustainable energy sources.

The Goal

The Green Ribbon Pledge was created to educate and inspire individuals, families, organizations, companies and officials about the collective power to reduce dangerous energy use and make smart, informed choices about our energy use and alternatives. The emphasis of the Green Ribbon Pledge is on the power of individual action to create change--the pledge gives each American the opportunity to contribute in a significant way. The public symbol of the green ribbon acts as a visible reminder of the pledge and communicates that individuals are taking action for a more secure future. By taking the pledge online at www.greenribbonpledge.org and wearing the green ribbon, you can voice your commitment to energy conservation and help spread the word.

The Green Ribbon Pledge is working to create a positive, inclusive and united movement toward a safe and secure future through raising public awareness of the need to conserve energy and establish energy independence. Please join us!

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