Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home

There is a revolution going on in America-a green revolution. From organic foods to recycling, millions of families have adopted safer, better, and more responsible ways to live. The latest front in this revolution is the home itself, as households across the country adopt ways to keep their homes clean and healthy-and ways to do it that are environmentally sane. Green cleaning products are "going mainstream," the washington post says, and sales of natural household products have surged by some twenty percent a year for the past five years. GREEN CLEAN is the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using natural, safe products. A friendly, accessible introduction explains what green cleaning is, how it can work for your home, and why it's important. Room by room and stain by stain, GREEN CLEAN offers non-carcinogenic strategies for cleaning deeply and more efficiently. GREEN CLEAN breaks environmentally conscious cleaning into simple principles and easily mastered routines, with beginner, expert, and advanced techniques that let readers set their own goals and develop their own cleaning plan. Spot illustrations enliven each chapter, showing time-saving techniques, products, and equipment. Room-by-room chapters teach how to make spotless everyplace from under the kitchen sink to the shower curtain and windows. Also included are recipes for safe, simple, and economic cleaning solutions and the lowdown on the best eco-friendly cleaning products on the market today. GREEN CLEAN is an indispensable reference for today's home. Produced in Melcher Media's innovative, patented DuraBook¨ format, GREEN CLEAN is waterproof and stain-resistant, meaning that you can keep it right under the sink or in a bucket with your cleaning supplies without ruining it. The book is also fully recyclable, itself proof that green products can be better products.

There is a revolution going on in America-a green revolution. The latest front is the home, as households across the country adopt new ways to keep their homes clean and healthy-and ways to do it that are good for the environment. Green Clean is the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic, ecofriendly products. Room by room and stain by stain, Green Clean breaks environmentally conscious cleaning into simple principles and easily mastered techniques that let readers set their own goals and develop their own cleaning plan. Also included are recipes for safe, simple, and economic cleaning solutions and the lowdown on the best eco-friendly cleaning products on the market today. Green Clean is an indispensable reference for today's home.

Linda Mason Hunter, formerly an editor with The Des Moines Register and Rodale Press, has authored several books, including The Healthy Home, which the New York Times dubbed "a sort of Whole Earth Catalog for the home." She is the founder of Healthy Home Designs, co-founder of GreenHome.com, and is currently working on a new edition of The Healthy Home, to be published in Fall 2005.

Mikki Halpin is a freelance writer and editor who writes frequently about environmental concerns. Her most recent book is It's Your World: If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.