Healthy Home

Is Vinegar the Best Germ Killer?
Even plants have natural germ-killing properties. Learn how to make your own health- and eco-friendly disinfectant with herbs and essential oils to replace the products in your home that contain synthetic chemicals.

Good for Stopping Germs, Bad for the Planet?
Is being sanitary at odds with being eco in your house? Should you use hand towels or paper towels? Hand sanitizer, or soap? Disinfectant spray, or UV wand? Shopping cart handle cover, or antibacterial wipes? Common ways to kill germs can be hard on the environment -- and detrimental to your health. Here's how to weigh your options and stay healthy while helping the planet, too.

Top 10 Green Gift Wrap Ideas
The most brilliant ways to wrap your gifts, in merry and bright eco-friendly alternatives to single-use wrapping paper.

Is Your Furniture Hazardous to Your Health? 4 Lessons to Learn About Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde, a chemical commonly found in furniture and cabinets, can contaminate your home and harm your health. These four lessons will teach you how to eliminate your exposure to formaldehyde -- creating a safer, healthier home for you and your family.

Blogs

Room Resolutions: Decluttering & Redecorating Ideas for the New Year

Try eco-decorator Cheryl Terrace's top three ideas to lighten up your home for the new year — and get great ...

Do Natural Window Cleaners Work?

Don't think eco-friendly natural window cleaners really work? Gotten streaks when you've tried them in the past? Try these nontoxic ...

3 Places Where Germs Survive a Typical Spring Cleaning

These three little jobs target germs that congregate in places that don't make the spring cleaning list.

More blogs

Dreaming Green: 8 Ways to Create an Eco-Home

Guide to Buying Eco-Friendly Furniture

Breathe Easier in Your Home: Air Filter Guide + 8 Simple Steps

5 Gift Ideas for Creating a Green & Healthy Dorm Room

Top 7 Toxins in Your Home

Living Close to the Land: Mainstream Family Learns Homesteading Ways

How to Iron as a Toxin-Free Alternative to Dry Cleaning

The Best Eco-Friendly Ways to Get Clothes Really Clean

Childcare Centers Going Green: A Guide for Parents

10 Ways to Deal with Dust Mites and Get Real Allergy Relief

Accidentally Eco: Cheap and Lazy Is the New Green

50 Ways to Reuse Your Yoga or Fitness Mat

10 Most Important Ways to Be a Virtuous Consumer

Dryer Sheets or Fabric Softener: Which Is Greener?

NRDC Publishes Green Scorecard for Tissue & Paper Towel Brands

Why Disinfectants and Antibacterials Are Overkill + 5 Health-Safe Alternatives

How Eco-Friendly Is Bamboo?

15 Ways to Go Green for as Little as .... FREE

Gaiam Media

Know Your Options in Health-Friendly, Eco-Friendly Pillows

Green guru Danny Seo takes you on a tour of pillow options made and filled with natural, health-friendly and eco-friendly materials that are healthier for you and for the planet. From Seo's Simple Steps to a Greener Home DVD by Gaiam.

Easy Organic Gardening Tips with Danny Seo

Danny Seo and Katherine Whiteside tour her organic garden and offer amazingly simple and effective tips for fertilizing, controlling insects and killing weeds without using chemicals.

How To Green Your Kitchen

From making homemade cleaning solutions to buying earth friendly products, Michel Nischan and Renee Loux show how easy it is to green your kitchen.

Why Organics Are Better For Your Health

Chemicals, hormones and pesticides. Sound yummy? These are all things that can be found in regular food. Michel Nischan breaks down the principles of organically grown food and why it's better for your health.