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That’s right, National Geo has a Green Guide. The Complete Reference for Consuming Wisely is an outstanding sourcebook and introduction to the world of green living and eco-friendly household and business practices. Even the case for organic clothing is made in a manner that can be urged on friends, family, and neighbors.
The science behind insecticides means humans are exposed too. We are at risk and should be making better choices every day. The thrift store and Salvation army stores should be empty, not mall retail racks. Re-use is on the upswing, and landfills may lessen as the twenty first century begins its upward swing.
It’s hard to believe that women put nanoparticles, sulfates, lead and mercury in metallics on their face every day. But makeup is just like food, people expect it to be OK since it on the market shelf. Not true.
Greening your life means taking away the growing ills modern industrialization and agriculture have integrated into daily consumer living. Making choices that patronize green growers, builders, and businesses help send the message that green matters.
Even those who have practiced eco-friendly consumer and lifestyle choices can find new source material here. There is a lot of text, good summaries, and lot of quick reminder blurbs. This makes excellent family reading and dinner table conversation. Some may find food for thought within its pages.
The National Geographic Green Guide Foreword is written by Meryl Streep. This book has a lot of stark news for those new to the green friendly scene. Causing cancer in lab animals and killing fish from agricultural runoff makes nursery plants and retail clothing suddenly a tough shopping decision. How much plastic do nurseries throw away? Lots. How many chemicals were ground into the earth to make that shiny new cotton?
Lots of material is covered in this densely written book. Vacuum cleaner filtration, elevated efficiency in farming, carcinogenic coal tar in dandruff shampoos, superbacteriated medicine cabinets, and more should suggest the range is vast and the depth is considerable. Fat locing chemicals and water loving chemicals are not healthy for some humans.
SVOC’s are Semi Volatile Organic Compounds. These are vapors of substances metastizing into the air in home and corproate and agricultural settings form furniture, bedding, flooring, paint, insecticides, fungicides, and more are poisoning up the everyday environment.
A comprehensive understanding harmful ingredients in cosmetics will make you never look ateyeliner the same way again.
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