Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1146781 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

A book to be savored and returned to again and again!
"Most Americans, but especially children, have dozens of pesticides and other toxic compounds in their bodies, many of them linked to health threads. A source of many of these toxins? Common, everyday, run of the mill household consumer products. There's no polite way of saying this: your body is a landfill, a dumping ground for a mind-boggling array of toxic chemicals. So is mine. So is your child's..." Sloan Barnett writes. She continues to discuss other potential household toxins and simple steps that everyone can take to a healthier life and a cleaner planet.

"Green Goes with Everything" is divided into ten chapters, including: The Real Dirt on Clean, Scary Clean, Safe Clean, Clean Body, Clean Baby, Clean Food, Clean Water, Clean Water, Clean Air, Clean Energy. Each chapter starts with several items on plain green truth, and ends with five green-hot tips that you can use to improve your life.

This book is filled with useful information and convincing facts and statistics. I like Sloan Barnett's style of writing. She is able to convey complicated issues and facts in plain English. I can tell she did spend a lot of time doing research and investigation. Most of the important facts or data have official sources. Sloan noted over 160 sources for her information at the end of the book.

Going green is one of the most important trends of our century. I have always been interested in this subject and have even written a book on it (LEED AP Exam Guide, Outskirts Press, 2008), yet I still learn a lot from Sloan's book. For example, on page 54, she gives you a tip to use water, white vinegar and lemon juice to make your own safe and clean window cleaner. On page 92, she points out: "...Two common shampoo ingredients, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and its close relative sodium laureth sulfate (SLES), are surfactants or sudsing agents. They have been found in lab studies to cause severe epidermal changes in the skin of mice. However, as with coal tar, the FDA's position is that, since the products are in contact with the skin only briefly, they cause no harm..." She then gives you several alternative shampoo brands that are safe and effective.

"Green Goes with Everything" is an information-rich and reader-friendly book. It has a lot of useful information that can improve your health or even save your life.

This is a book to be savored and returned to again and again.

Gang Chen, a Book Reviewer for Bookpleasures
Author of "LEED AP Exam Guide" & "Planting Design Illustrated." LEED AP, AIA