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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.

6 Ways to Green Your Thanksgiving Dinner
You don't have to go cold tofurkey to green your Thanksgiving meal. Try these six ways keep Thanksgiving traditions while putting eco-friendly twists on your feast, starting with slashing the carbon footprint of your turkey dinner with all the fixin's.

Affordable Green Ways to Tackle 6 Home Decorating Challenges
"Keep it simple -- and sustainable -- by making easy, affordable changes to create a beautiful space right where you are," writes Jeanne Storck. From eco-organizing to VOC-free paint, sustainable lighting, container gardens and more, find out six simple and affordable ways to transform your home into a greener and more stylish living space.

Dreaming Green: 8 Ways to Create an Eco-Home
Want to make your home more stylish AND healthier for your family and the environment? Lisa Sharkey and Paul Gleicher transformed their Manhattan brownstone into an eco-smart, eco-fabulous home. Read about eight green ways they improved their home -- plus get ideas for how to make your own home more eco-friendly.

Blogs

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.

3 Steps to Take If You Have CCA Wood in Your Backyard

I don’t make many mistakes when it comes to keeping toxic chemicals out of my house — and off ...

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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?

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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.