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West Coast Green - Eco Green & Healthy Building
1 Comment Published September 19th, 2008 in Building Materials, Environment, Health, Home, Toxins.
Come explore eco green and healthy building tips galore at the West Coast Green conference coming up September 25 - 27, 2008 in San Jose, California.
The conference is open to the public, with homeowners day on the 27th. The conference features the latest and greatest in sustainable, green and healthy building. It will cover everything from clean tech, global warming, solar, wind and waste reduction to healthy building products. And, lots of educational presentations and networking opportunities.
There will even be a showcase house right in the middle of the San Jose Convention Center. It’s made out of shipping containers and it is dubbed the “Harbinger House”. Gregory Schaefer, the chef on Planet Green’s Daily news show, “The G Word”, came up with the name and it was voted in as the favorite.
How about that! A building conference where you can actually learn how to make your home castle - or work castle - efficient and healthy. That’s a surefire breath of relief for those of us with chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia or mold sensitivity. Asthmatics too, and…well, you get the picture.
This year Al Gore is the Saturday plenary speaker. There will be 400 exhibitors, 200 presenters and 14,000 attendees. And, even if you can’t make it, the presentations will be videotaped and available online.
Yep…West Coast Green has got you covered.
So, come check it out…you’ll get lots of cool, eco-healthy building and home ideas.
Sustainable, Guilt Free and healthy…
How Much Chlorine Is In YOUR Pool?
0 Comments Published March 3rd, 2008 in Environment, Health, Home, Toxins.Remember when you where a kid and you would go swimming? Your eyes would burn like crazy. And after a while you would get that kind of stiff feeling in your chest and a barky cough that went away (usually) by the next day.
Water logged.
Um, not really.
More like chlorine toxic. Yes, really!
Competitive [...]
Sweet Sheets
0 Comments Published February 19th, 2008 in Environment, Health, Home, Organic, Pesticides, Toxins.We wish the weather would hurry up and get a little warmer. Here in California we just got a nice taste of some spring like weather and then - wham - right back into winter.
It just makes us want to crawl in under the sheets.
And, we really like the fact that there are more [...]
CDC and FEMA find Formaldehyde in Katrina Trailers
0 Comments Published February 15th, 2008 in Air Quality, Building Materials, Cancer, Environment, Furniture, Health, Home, Nervous System, Toxins.The news is out today that the CDC and FEMA have found excessive levels of formaldehyde in the post Katrina trailers.
This is a tragedy that adds to the already sizable burden of Katrina tragedies.
But, it also brings out into the open the dangers of formaldehyde in building materials. Not just in the Katrina trailers. [...]