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General Building Ecology
(relationship of buildings and health)
Creating a Healthy Household: The Ultimate Guide for Healthier, Safer, Less-Toxic Living
by Lynn Marie Bower, 2nd Edition (The Healthy House Institute: Indiana) 2000.
Creating a Healthy Household offers practical suggestions for improving
virtually every aspect of your home's indoor living environment. With
chapters devoted to cleaning products, personal-care, clothing, linens,
interior decorating, life-styles, housekeeping, air and water quality,
and reducing electromagnetic radiation, no other book matches its thoroughness.
It's an essential reference for anyone interested in their family's health
and well-being. Containing an impressive 704 pages, this book is the only
one of its kind and is a complete reference library all in one book. With
hundreds of listings for new companies, products, catalogs, sources, web
sites, and a comprehensive index, its simply indispensable.
The Healthy Home: An Attic-To-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Livinge
by Linda Mason Hunter, founder of Healthy Home Plans [photo of book] One of the first groundbreaking books written about the importance of a healthy home. This book provides a complete picture of indoor health, including a healthy home inspection checklist. The New York Times called the book " a sort of Whole Earth Catalog for the home, The Healthy Home has tips on soundproofing, safety, detecting carcinogens and an appendix of products and services.
Home Safe Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household Products
Debra Lynn Dadd (Tarcher/Putnam, 1997). Home Safe Home offers more than 400 tips, including do-it-yourself formulas for inexpensive, safe products to replace harmful substances we are exposed to in our own homes. Whether you suffer from unexplained headaches, fatigue, or depression, or if you worry about the link between increased use of toxics and the rising rate of cancer, the many suggestions in this book can make your life virtually toxic-free!