Pick a new thing to do, once a month. The best choices cost little and take very little effort. There are green possibilities for every individual, small business, and corporation.
1. Start very small and don’t expect to go green overnight. Think in global terms.
2. Get educated; read all the fine print on products. Sign up for automatic email updates on green sites. Go ahead with the reusable bags. People will eventually catch on.
3. Think sustainable and not consumerist. Don’t fall for all the advertising! Where and who made the products that are to be purchased? What is the living conditions of the employee? Can anyone ethically sport a sweatshop garment and truly not care?
4. Forget about status. It won’t feed or heal a person. Shop at yard sales, thrift stores, and rethink purchases. Live without if possible. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
5. Realize that products’ ingredients are not regulated. Many do this under “fragrance” or “inert” ingredients. Many toxins are in cleaners, cosmetics, and lawn treatments.
6. Rethink plastic. Try to find safer alternatives to chemicals if at all possible.
7. Find an alternative organic lawn treatment for weeds instead of using 24D. It is in many products at the major retailers, used agriculturally, in lawn services. (24D was ½ of Agent Orange along with 245T).
8. If you or your child is allergic or presents a nervous condition, try going green at a faster rate. Many changes can lessen the body burden and improve the situation.
9. Remember that all the water in the world exists today. What is placed or dumped tends to be persistent. Skip the antibacterial in soaps if possible, don’t flush your extra meds, and dispose of toxics properly.
10. Be willing to spend a little extra on greener products. Keep in mind the cost of health care when thinking of expenses.
Poison Control Nationwide Hotline 1.800.222.1222
National Biological Information Infrastructure
How Pesticides/Herbicides Work
Detailed Pesticide/Herbicide Lookup
Beyond Pesticides Organization
Do it Yourself and Safer Pest Control
Alternative/Sustainable Farming Methods
Rachel Carson Council on Herbicides/Pesticides
Publications by the United Nations Environment Programme
Basic Green-ology and Groups
The Green Guide
How Green Are You? From National Geographic's Green Guide
Simple Little Things Anyone Can Do to Help the Planet
The Sustainability Institute
Green Thinking Blog
Nature Conservancy
Treehugger
About Bisphenol A in Plastics / Commonly in Baby & Water Bottles
Reusable Bags & other Alternatives to Bisphenol Plastic
Chemicals Found in Pets
Wikipedia Stockholm Convention POP Chemical Information
Links to Greener Supplies & Cosmetics
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap
Burt's Bees
7th Generation
Dr. Hauschka Skin Care/Cosmetics
Less Toxic Guide to Products
Guide to Companies that Signed the EU Safe Cosmetics
Compact
Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database
Aviva Natural Products Canada Store
Do it Yourself Green Cleaners
Ecover
Tom's of Maine
Shaklee Products
Local Harvest Community Supported Farms & Cooperatives
Healthy World Store
Publications for Greener Living
Organic Gardening
Mother Earth News
Health
American Academy of Environmental Medicine
National Institute for Health Household Product Safety Lookup
Endocrine Disruptors Explained for Women
Complete Report from Prague on Endocrine Disruptors
Natural Resources Defense Council Info and How To Avoid the Disruptors
Detailed Info Paul Goettlich's Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology
Mindfully.org
Pollen Count for Memphis Area from Weather.com
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
Babies Naturally (Lots of Scientific Research)
Integrative Medicine Environmental Health Links
World Health Organization Information on Endocrine Disruptors
Links for Children / Nature Play
Green Hour (Ideas for One Hour of Unstructured Play Outdoors)
Wildlife Habitats: Create One for Your Backyard
Online Wildlife Expeditions
National Wildlife Federation Home Page
Tiki the Penguin: Living With Care
Tiki: Global Warming
Town Tox Lookup from National Institute for Health
Green Building Links
US Green Building Council
Energy Effeciency and Renewable Energy Site
Green Building Grants for Industry, Nonprofits, Government
Green to Green Organization/Compare Building
Clean Ingredients Site/Cleaners
Sustainable Packaging Organization
Green Seal Products / Certification Standards
Energy Star
Green Roof Systems
EERE High Intensity Lighting Info
EERE and the Home
EERE Vehicles and Fuel Info
Eco Choices Environmental Products
Dioxins
Victor Yushchenko from Ukraine: A Case of Dioxin Poisoning?
Chlorine, Pollution, and the Environment
Facts about PCB's.
UN Dirty Dozen POP's (Persistent Organic Pollutants)
Pulp and Paper Mill Pollution Information
Reach for Unbleached Paper Mill Pollution Information
Forest Sprayed Before Trees Harvested for Paper
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver
Green Housekeeping by Ellen Sandbeck
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore
An Inconvenient Truth Al by Gore
Vietnam and Iraq Veterans, Children, and Families
Current Research on Dioxin Containing Herbicides Used in Vietnam
Dr. Alvin L. Young Special Collection of the National Agricultural Library
Veterans Administration
Chemicals Sprayed and Volumes for Vietnam
Agent Orange Group Resources
The Ugly Agent Orange Truth
VVA Addresses the Need for Study/Children of AO Exposed Veterans
Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign
Recommendations of Vietnam Agent Orange Relief Campaign
Birth Defects Vietnam & Iraq
AO Defects Blogspot
Birth Defects Research Site by Betty Mekdeci, Executive Director
World Health Organization on Depleted Uranium
World Health Organization on Agent Orange
Global Research on Locations of Depleted Uranium
DU Fact Sheet from Iraq Veterans Against the War
National Gulf War Resource Center
United Nations Site Main Homepage / Seek AO & DU Information Here
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