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GreenGuard’s Green Home Checklists
Poor indoor air quality contributes to asthma and negatively affects children’s health. GreenGuard has put together a few checklists – Renovation and Nursery are the newest – for you to use in your home. Please follow the links and click on the house to learn about potential sources of indoor air pollution and how to [...]
Continue reading...What Is The True Price of Gas?
13. July 2011
What’s the true price of gasoline? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting explores the “external costs” of gasoline use in the U.S. — including pollution and the health problems caused by it. “The Price of Gas” video is such an eye opener! - Jayme M. Carleton, Second Nature http://jaymecarleton.com Making Sustainability Second Nature™
Continue reading...Coal-Fired Plants Linked to Asthma
6. July 2011
A friend of mine, Gretchen with TM4Group, emailed me this article. She was in Philadelpha last year and she was saddened by the density of housing within the manufacturing sector. Homes were literally inside the manufacturing compounds. Although we do not have coal-fired plants on the west coast of significance, this article has some very interesting [...]
Continue reading...Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World’s Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds
29. June 2011
I wanted to share this article with you all. Even though I personally promote and support sustainable gardening practices, I know that a few members in my family use Roundup. My hope is that this article will persuade them to change their ways and leave the chemicals out of their gardening routine. - Jayme M. Carleton, [...]
Continue reading...Moms Urge Toys “R” Us to Live Up to Its Promise to Pull Toxic Toys from Shelves
9. May 2011
I have never really been a fan of Toys “R” Us or Babies “R” Us. The employees seem to know nothing about their products, management can be rude, aisles of baby stuff seems out of place AND there is no to very limited knowledge of safety or toxicity reports. This is very hard for the [...]
Continue reading...Take the Farm to Schools
27. April 2011
I recently checked out the website for Farm to School and absolutely adored the video they had on their main page. I love the movie Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and relating it to food just felt so right! Farm to School connects schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals [...]
Continue reading...Learn About the Green Access Home at Suncadia
18. July 2011
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