The Healthy Home Workbook: Easy Steps for Eco-Friendly Living

by Kimberly Rider

A healthy home is one that's free of toxins and stocked with natural materials that are as good for the body as they are soothing for the spirit. The Healthy Home Workbook leads the way to creating a space that is friendly to the environment, reflects the owner's personal style, and won't break the bank. With the same engaging approach and sophisticated style that makes her a such a popular guest star of HGTV's Curb Appeal , Kimberly Rider clarifies...

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811850773
• ISBN13: 9780811850773
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

A good book!

This is a pretty good book with helping someone who is just learning about becoming green. It has tips and ideas that if you have no clue this will point you in the right direction.

It's not easy being green!

Kudos to Mrs Rider, this book really helps sort out all the information being tossed our way. "Going green" can be a daunting task she has made it easy. I have become much more aware of the products I bring into my home. I also love the tabs they are great for easy refrence. I keep this book by my bedside and refer to it constantly.

AN IMPRESSIVE RESOURCE FOR THE HEALTHY HOME!!

Five Healthy Stars!! This may well be one of the most iMPORTANT books you buy this year, because it may significantly upgrade your home and your lifestyle. This is one of the most beautifully conceived and elegantly laid out workbooks I have seen. Lots of inspiring photographs by Thayer Allyson Gowdy. And it covers a multitude of topics on the home; some covered more in depth than others. Plus there are many resources listed beyond the scope of the book. The operative word here is "home", not house. It not only covers hazards, dangers, and other factors and practices that affect our health in our homes and yards, but there are suggestions on cures, safer substitutes, design and layout of areas of the home. There is also genuine concern for the mind and the spirit of the inhabitants. Even Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) is covered and other relevant or near-relevant factors that may have escaped our interests or concerns. Due to the extensiveness of the workbook, some of this may not work for some of us: feng shui, dream journals, and shoes banned in the home? I don't think so!! But so much else DOES work! The general nature of the workbook also invites us to dig deeper on many topics that are only briefly touched on here. So get with it !! My greatest interest in the workbook is with 'the war' (my words) being fought in and around all homes, garages, gardens and yards. This war has many factors and concerns: germs, pollutants, pests, bad practices, the previously mentioned EMF, and toxins, much of which we bring into the home ourselves, and, after our usual appropriate cleaning, germs may be the least of our concerns. Kimberly Rider deserves a "Silver Star" medal for going through a typical home and analyzing problems and making suggestions in each area. Even practical ways to handle yard pests is worthwhile. My ant problem has been throttled thanks to Ms Rider. The enemy in the unseen war may well be generating toxins that greatly affect our health to the point of possibly setting us up for cancer, breathing disorders, skin diseases, and who knows what else. There is some curiousness to the layout of the workbook. But that's because there is so much overlap in each area. We meet the term EMF in the bedroom but it's effects are glossed over. A later chapter explains the serious concerns of EMF. One EMF chapter might have done the trick because it's everywhere in the home. But the great thing is that the "workbook" aspect allows us to move these cleanable plasticized pages around for reorganization. ***UPDATE*** I was concerned enough from the EMF chapter to purchase a microwave oven detector meter and an EMF meter. The microwave detector showed safe levels around the oven BUT the EMF meter showed dangerous levels of EMF within two feet of the microwave oven, exactly where food is usually prepared while the oven is operating. Also dangerous levels were emitted from the backside of the microwave where a chair was located. These have been taken