Benefits of Organic Cleaning Products
Organic Cleaning Products are Toxin Free
Have you noticed that many stores are now carrying organic cleaning products? Before you purchase, it is best to go to a sight like EWG for great advice.
A popular movement towards green cleaning has been underway for the past few years. Here are a few basic points to remember when shopping in the store or on your favorite green online store.
What is Green Cleaning?
- This is cleaning that is done with organic cleaning products; these are toxin free products that do not present the harmful chemicals of common commercial products. Green cleaning companies are supposed to be held to much higher standards than are required by either federal or state regulations.
- What is the Purpose of Going Green?
The purpose is to finally address the large variety of illnesses that have sprung from exposure to commercially branded cleaning products. Not only have people suffered from the use of such products; our environment has taken quite a toll from them as well.
- What is the Benefit of Green Cleaning?
The benefit of green cleaning is that we discover and use healthful and safe ways to maintain our clean environment. We protect our health when we live green because we minimize if not eliminate toxins in our environment. Often by living green we can avoid illnesses that toxins can present, and allow our bodies to heal if we’ve already gotten sick from toxin exposure. Continue reading
Ed Begley Jr – Green Before it was Fashionable!
Ed Begley Jr on Living Green
Guest Video/Blog from The Hour Interview with Ed
The actor and environmental activist talks about 40 years of living green. Continue reading
Farm Raised Vs Wild Fish
Another Great Guest Blog from EarthTalk
Concerns About Farm Raised Fish
(Green Living Zone is pro wild fish over farm raised in favor of maintaining sustainability.)
| Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss |
Farm-raised fish can still absorb mercury, since most fish farms are located in the ocean, close to or abutting the shoreline. They can also absorb PCBs and dioxins, as the near-shore waters they occupy are the first stop for run-off from land-based sources of pollution.
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Dear EarthTalk: I thought “farm raised” was the way to go when buying fish, to avoid mercury contamination. But are there other concerns about farm raised that make some fish a poor choice for good health? What are the safest fish to buy and which should be avoided? And what about those frozen blocks of fish I get at Trader Joe’s? Are they safe to eat?
—Tim Jeffries, Springfield, MA Continue reading
Natural Weed Control to be Eco-Friendly!
A Green Post from GreenLivingZone.com by Karen Ann Teeters
Natural Weed Control
One of my Favorite recycled Earth Talk Question and Answer Columns
as seen in E Environmental magazine, reprinted with Permission from E.
You could pull those dandelions out and have them in a salad or here are a few natural weed control techniques from the Earth Talk experts! – Karen
Dear EarthTalk: I pruned back an overgrown bush in my back yard last fall and now the soil around it is covered in dandelions and other weeds. Is there any way to get rid of these weeds without resorting to RoundUp and other chemical herbicides?
– Max S., Seattle, WA
Weeds are nothing if not opportunistic. While you may not have bargained for getting one form of eyesore (weeds) by clearing another (an overgrown bush), dandelions and other fast-growing, quickly spreading plants know no bounds when some new territory opens up. They will colonize and spread out given the slightest opening—after all, that‘s what defines them as weeds.
Of course, conventional herbicides such as Monsanto‘s RoundUp will take down the weeds in a jiffy, but the negative effects on people, animals and the environment may be both profound and long-lasting. Independent studies of RoundUp have implicated its primary ingredient, glyphosphate, as well as some of its “inert” ingredients, in liver damage, reproductive disorders and Non-Hodgkin‘s Lymphoma, as well as in cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, nerve and respiratory damage. Continue reading
First Earth Day in America and Local Events
History of the First Earth Day in America
Earth Day
By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day
Courtesy of:
http://earthday.wilderness.org/
Get a List of the Local Earth Day Events in Your Area Here:
http://earthday.envirolink.org/
What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it start? These are the questions I am most frequently asked.
Actually, the idea for Earth Day evolved over a period of seven years starting in 1962. For several years, it had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country. Continue reading
Time for Green Living
Why GreenLivingZone.com?
Each person’s effort to live sustainably, peacefully, simply on this planet earth will be expressed in a unique manner. We are interdependent of each other and I believe to survive on this planet and to survive as a race that the majority of us need to make a different choice. Saving Gaia, our sumptuous green planet Earth is the biggest benefit of going green,stepping lightly and living simply. It is time to scale the consumption back.
Get out of the rat race and become a human being. You can read articles about how our individual actions effect the earth. Continue reading
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