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Start by purchasing What Can I Do? Lisa Harrow's A-Z guide to caring for the planet, now available in separate editions for the US, The UK, Australia, and NZ.
Updated Information
Lisa's updated topics to What Can I Do?, available here for free:
Latest Additions
- Increase energy efficiency and save money through trigeneration
- The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop Global Warming.
- Organic food and handmade beers
- Modern Miracles, or Another Toxic Nightmare?
- Thirty Different Pesticides Used in One Tomato Field?
- Plastic: Is it Beneficial or Destructive to Life on Earth.
- PVCs and Breast Milk
- PVC, Our Health, and National Security.
- Sailing on a Sea of Plastic
- Serious Hazards in House Dust
- Take Action Against a Misleading Auto Advertisment.
- All About Birds
- Useful Birdwatching
- Million Solar Roofs
- Power from the Sun
- Your New Car
- Facts, News and Re-Usable Bags
- Sea Turtles and Plastic Don't Mix
Serious Hazards in House Dust
On March 22nd 2005 a report entitled “Sick of Dust: Chemicals in Common Products—a Needless Health Threat in our Homes” was released in the US. Samples of dust from 70 homes around the country had been analyzed in the autumn of 2004 and the results showed that every one contained all the hazardous persistent chemicals that were being tested for: alkylphenols, brominated flame retardants, organotins, perfluorinated chemicals, pesticides and phthalates. Every one of these chemicals is suspected of causing cancer, allergies, and immune system damage, as well as being linked to hormone disruption, which can in turn cause reproductive and developmental problems. Household products should not contain contaminating chemicals that can adversely affect us and our environment. There are other options, based on Green Chemistry Principles. Consumers must become more aware of the issue and begin pressuring for change. Start here. Download the report, read it and give copies to everyone in your community. Learn where the dangers lie, find out which companies are already using healthier materials in their products, and support them. This is something that affects us all.