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Green Cleaning: From the Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on green cleaning from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
Green cleaning products
- Here's our guide to Buy Green: Cleaning Supplies, and how to assemble a cleaning kit of your own.
- McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry -- the Cradle to Cradle guys -- have picked a Cradle to Cradle cleaner.
- Method, Seventh Generation, Mrs. Meyers, B_E_E, and Ecover () are all solid choices for green cleaning products. Even Clorox has joined the green cleaning game with their Green Works products.
- Here's a look at two specialty cleaning services that employ eco-friendly methods.
Cleaning techniques
- Read up on How to Go Green: Spring Cleaning for tips on sprucing up and organizating your home after a long winter.
- TreeHugger roots into the question, what do I do about clogged drains? and offers a more natural alternative to busting out the Drain-O.
- Get some good advice on taking care of your floor the way grandma used to.
- Some valuable techniques on how to use tea tree oil around the home.
- In the battle between hand washing and machine washing the dishes, who really wins?
Cleaning and health
- Planet Green's Detox Your Home series includes info on how to keep toxics out of your bathroom, kitchen, living room, laundry room, and more.
- Most of us share our home with dangerous substances—here is a review of some of the pertinent knowledge and how to steer clear.
- Pots, pans, plastic: all are possible causes of Toxic Shock Syndrome. This Canadian report looks at over 4,000 common chemicals and their links to your health.
- Conventional dry cleaning is anything but green. Carbon dioxide and Green Earth are two friendly alternatives that get the job done.
- TreeHugger interviews Gregor Barnum, Corporate Consciousness director for Seventh Generation.
Books we've reviewed
- Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living
- Clean Sweep: The Ultimate Guide to Decluttering, Detoxing and Destressing Your Home
- Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home
- Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy Non-toxic Cleaning
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