About Green Clean

There is a revolution going on in America—a green revolution. From organic foods to recycling and solar heating, millions of families have adopted safer, better, and more responsible ways to live. The latest front in this revolution is the home itself, as households across the country adopt ways to keep their homes clean and healthy—and ways to do it that are environmentally sane. Green cleaning products are "going mainstream," the Washington Post says (9/18/2003), and sales of natural household products have surged by some twenty percent a year for the past five years.

Green Clean is the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using natural, safe products. A friendly, accessible introduction explains what green cleaning is, how it can work for your home, and why it's important. Room by room and stain by stain, Green Clean offers nontoxic strategies for cleaning better, deeper, and more efficiently.

Editorially and visually, Green Clean conveys three essential qualities: accessibility, expertise, and user-friendliness. Spot illustrations enliven each chapter, describing routines, techniques, and types of products. Room-by-room chapters show how to make spotless everyplace from under the kitchen sink to the shower curtain and windows—what cleansers to use, simple weekly routines, time-saving tips. Also included are an A-to-Z stain-by-stain guide for getting spots out; recipes for safe, simple, and economic cleaning solutions; and the lowdown on the best ecofriendly cleaning products on the market today. Green Clean is an indispensable reference for today's home.

Produced with the innovative, patented Durabook™ technology, Green Clean is waterproof and stain-resistant—and is itself proof that green products can be better products. "This book is not a tree," declare Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart in their landmark environmental design book, Cradle to Cradle, which was printed as a Durabook™. "It represents one step toward a radically different approach to designing and producing the objects we use and enjoy, a movement we see as the next industrial revolution."

About the Authors

Linda Mason Hunter's books include The Healthy Home, which the New York Times dubbed "a sort of Whole Earth Catalog for the home." She is the founder of Healthy Home Designs, cofounder of GreenHome.com, and is currently working on Creating a Self and Healthy Home, to be published in Fall 2005.

Mikki Halpin is a freelance writer and editor who writes frequently about environmental concerns. Her most recent book is It's Your World: If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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