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Creating the Green Home: Balancing Health and Sustainability NEXUS Green Building Resource Center, Boston 12.13.08
What is a Green, Healthy Home? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Name That Toxin! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Where can I find these chemicals? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Toxins and Toxicants in the Home:  where can they be found? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
How do they behave in our homes? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What happens after we’re done with them? How do they behave in the environment? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
There is no “safe” level of toxins in the body. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Body Burden  (ewg) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Other Environmental Dangers in the Home ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Where did they come from? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Precautionary Principle… ,[object Object]
Safer Alternatives for You and for Kids ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Safer Alternatives, cont. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
How to create sustainable lives? ,[object Object],[object Object]
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Eco Ethics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Greening your home 101 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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  1. Where you feel safe
  2. Game Ripping plastic with teeth Folding or playing with electrical cord Stomping around our house in shoes that have just been outside Leaving the toilet seat up Breathing in that fresh paint smell, new car smell or just cleaned smell Opening the microwave impatiently before it finishes cooking
  3. Speak about details on each
  4. Description of one chemical, example Plastic PFOA
  5. EWG
  6. Add details- how? What’s going on?
  7. 1998! Talk about EMF’s!
  8. Add more to this! Great!
  9. Have people choose commonly purchased items Write on board 4 groups each choose one item, map out the answers to the questions, large paper, markers Say, these maps demonstrate the web of life