Synopses & Reviews
Your ecofriendly guide to safer, healthier housekeepingWant to go green as you clean? This authoritative guide provides expert, proven advice on cleaning your home with organic, nontoxic, sustainable resources. From the kitchen and bath to the living room, laundry, and even your garage, you get green solutions for every common cleaning chore.
Discover a new way to clean — learn how natural methods can save you money while improving your health and the environment
Get ready to go green — prepare your house and assemble cleaning tools
Protect your family — know the right cleaners to avoid (and which ones you can make yourself)
Tackle your inside spaces — get green cleaning solutions for every room in the house and improve the efficiency of your appliances
Go the extra mile — go beyond cleaning with ways to conserve energy and reduce waste
Open the book and find:
A room-by-room breakdown of green cleaning tips
Recipes for making your own cleaning products
Cost-free changes to clean green
Tips for improving your sleeping environment
Small changes to ease cleaning and save resources
Ways to consume fewer resources
An appendix of clean, green organizations and programs
Synopsis
An authoritative guide to reducing household exposure to hazardous chemicalsThousands of household products contain toxic ingredients. Today, more and more people are seeking more natural cleaning methods to reduce their exposure to harsh chemicals. From the kitchen and bath to the living room and laundry, Green Cleaning For Dummies provides readers with green solutions to every common cleaning chore. Focusing on organic, nontoxic, sustainable alternatives to conventional cleaning products, it's packed with suggestions and tips for effective cleaning, and even offers green solutions for sprucing up patios, garages, vehicles, and the exterior of a house.
Synopsis
An authoritative guide to reducing household exposure to hazardous chemicals
Thousands of household products contain toxic ingredients. Today, more and more people are seeking more natural cleaning methods to reduce their exposure to harsh chemicals. From the kitchen and bath to the living room and laundry, Green Cleaning For Dummies provides readers with green solutions to every common cleaning chore. Focusing on organic, nontoxic, sustainable alternatives to conventional cleaning products, it's packed with suggestions and tips for effective cleaning, and even offers green solutions for sprucing up patios, garages, vehicles, and the exterior of a house.
Elizabeth Goldsmith, PhD (Tallahassee, FL), is a professor and Fulbright Scholar with an expertise in work and family, consumer economics, and healthy indoor environments. Courses that she teaches include textiles and consumer sciences, consumer health issues, consumer buying theory, and the evaluation of housing design. Betsy Sheldon (Indianapolis, IN) is a lifestyles author and editor with a passion for sustainability issues.
About the Author
Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, PhD, is a professor and Fulbright Scholar with expertise in work and family, consumer economics, and healthy indoor environments.
Betsy Sheldon is a lifestyles author and editor with a passion for sustainability issues.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Part I: A Greener, Healthier Way to Clean.
Chapter: 1: Cleaning House in a Brave Green World.
Chapter 2: What’s Green Got to Do with It?
Chapter 3: Adding Up the Pluses of Cleaning Green.
Part II: Getting to Work.
Chapter 4: An Ounce of Prevention.
Chapter 5: Assembling Your Hardware.
Chapter 6: Mixing Things Up: A Green Cleaner Cookbook.
Part III: Cleaning Green, Room by Room.
Chapter 7: Everything in the Kitchen — Including the Sink.
Chapter 8: Coming Clean in the Bathroom.
Chapter 9: Airing the Dirty Laundry Room.
Chapter 10: Creating a Clean and Healthful Sleeping Environment.
Chapter 11: Greening and Cleaning the Living Room.
Chapter 12: Transitioning from Home to the Great Outdoors.
Part IV: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 13: Ten (Or So) Ways Your Grandparents Got It Right.
Chapter 14: Ten Steps — Beyond Clean — to Green Your Home and Your Life.
Appendix: Green Resources.
Index.