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Living with a Green Heart: How to Keep Your Body, Your Home, and the Planet Healthy in a Toxic World - Softcover

Browne, Gay

 
9780806539003: Living with a Green Heart: How to Keep Your Body, Your Home, and the Planet Healthy in a Toxic World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0806539003 ISBN 13: 9780806539003
Verlag: Citadel, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

“If you want one of the shortest, fastest routes to getting toxic chemicals out of your life, get behind the wheel of Gay Browne’s Living with a Green Heart and you’ll get there in no time flat.”
—Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group
 
In an increasingly toxic world, the paths to environmental health and personal well-being run parallel. The journey begins with a few small steps.
 
Is the damage we’re doing to our planet literally leaving you sick, sore, and gasping for air? Want to take back our inalienable rights to clean air, clean water, and healthy food? In this quietly revolutionary book, environmental pioneer and founder of Greenopia, Gay Browne, shares a roadmap for making incremental changes that will not only transform your life, but heal the world we share.
 
From the home to the office, from the foods we eat to the clothes we wear, here are actions you can take today that will improve your Personal Environmental Health, and help you stop feeling overwhelmed, reduce illness, improve sleep, mood, and focus, and start making a difference, including:
 
*Make conscious choices when shopping, and support companies with good environmental stewardship and healthy products.
 
*Test your water for harmful chemicals, install an affordable water filtration system, and reduce your water use by utilizing water more efficiently.
 
*Work with your doctor to create a personal plan for detoxing your body. 
 
*Use only non-toxic and organic household products, and choose organic, eco-friendly fabrics made by sustainable and fair trade certified companies.
 
*Choose the method of transportation that makes the lightest carbon footprint. 
 
With these and many other actions, Gay Browne’s work has taught her that even the smallest change for the better, faithfully practiced, can have an immense positive impact on our minds, bodies, and spirits—not to mention the planet.

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Environmental pioneer Gay Browne is the world’s first and only personal environmental therapist and is the founder of Greenopia, a company dedicated to achieving personal and community environmental health through small and large habit and behavioral adjustments. Greenopia is a comprehensive bestselling series of city by city guidebooks listing local eco-friendly resources. Greenopia Los Angeles was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
 
In 1994, even before the U.S. Green Building Council established the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) guidelines for environmental building verification, Gay set out to create what she calls “an optimal personal environmental health space.” She began designing and constructing the first completely environmentally responsible home of its kind. Once completed, it was featured on the cover of the Los Angeles Times Home Section.
 
Gay travels the country speaking on environmental issues, sits on several boards, and holds various chair positions for environmental alliances, arts, and hospital foundations, and women’s and school groups. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her children and dogs. For more information, and tips on how you can live with a green heart, visit her website at GayBrowne.com.

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Living With A Green Heart

How to Keep Your Body, Your Home, and the Planet Healthy in a Toxic World

By Gay Browne

KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.

Copyright © 2019 Gay Browne
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8065-3900-3

Contents

Praise for LIVING WITH A GREEN HEART, 
Title Page, 
Copyright Page, 
Dedication, 
FOREWORD, 
INTRODUCTION: My Green Story, 
THE ELEMENTS: Air, Water, and EMFs - I choose to breathe healthy air, drink clean water, and spend time away from my devices every day., 
The Air That You Breathe - I choose to inhale and exhale clean air., 
Water Is Life - I choose to drink clean water., 
EMFs - I choose to be in a quiet and creative state of mind every day., 
PERSONAL CARE - I choose to use healthy products that respect my body., 
The Truth About Toothpaste - Practicing good oral hygiene gives me something to smile about., 
Deodorant - I am filled with gratitude and love for my body., 
Soap - I have a clean body and a healthy mind., 
Hair Care - My hair reflects my inner beauty., 
Sun Protection - I allow the sun to nourish my body., 
Makeup and Moisturizers - My face radiates happiness and love., 
Intimate Care Products - I choose to care for my body, my partner, and my planet., 
FOOD AND BEVERAGES - I am one with all that I put in my body., 
Dairy - I choose to drink milk that is healthy for me., 
Red Meat - I honor the life of cows., 
Poultry - I choose to consume healthy food from happy animals., 
Eggs - I choose to see each day as a new beginning., 
Something Fishy About Fish - I protect our oceans, our rivers, and our fish., 
Fruits and Vegetables - I choose to eat a plant-based diet., 
Grains, Flours, and Pasta - Each bite I take is a kernel of wisdom., 
Plant-Based Proteins - I welcome the nourishment of plants., 
Nuts and Seeds - I make nuts and seeds a part of my healthy diet., 
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice (and Not So Nice) - My life is filled with sweet things without adding sugar., 
Coffee and Tea - I am awake to the wonderful aroma of life., 
Alcoholic Beverages - I enjoy drinking responsibly., 
Nonalcoholic Beverages - I choose beverages that are good for me., 
HOME - I treat myself, my home, and my family with loving care., 
Household Cleaning Products - I use environmentally friendly cleaning products in my home., 
The Family Room - I am at peace in my healthy home., 
The Bedroom - My bed is a place of well-being., 
The Kitchen - The kitchen is the healthy heart of our home., 
The Bathroom - I let life flow freely without fear., 
The Garage - I treat every part of my home with care., 
Waste Disposal - I only buy things I need., 
LIFESTYLE, 
Pets - I care for all living creatures., 
Clothing - We wear our heart's creation., 
The Real Cost of Transportation - Act is an action taking flight., 
Socially Responsible Investing and Spending - I spend and invest my money with companies that make the world a better place., 
GET INVOLVED - I choose to live consciously and share lovingly., 
SO, WHAT DO I DO NOW? - I live with a green heart., 
GLOSSARY, 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 
Notes,


CHAPTER 1

THE ELEMENTS: Air, Water, and EMFs

I choose to breathe healthy air, drink clean water, and spend time away from my devices every day.


EVERY LIVING HUMAN BEING and animal on the planet needs air, water, food, and shelter to survive. The quality of and access to all of these requirements for life will decide how long and in what condition we will live. These shared elements are part of what's called the global commons, the Earth's shared natural resources. These resources have been heavily taxed over the past century due to industrial innovation and a growth in population. For all of us to survive and thrive on the planet, it is critical that we stop thinking just about ourselves and think about the others in our community, and how we can better share these resources without further depleting them to the point of exhaustion. Living this way requires us to raise our level of consciousness and develop the self-discipline to act less selfishly. Without slowing our consumption way down, the quality of life as we know it will drastically change.


The Air That You Breathe


I choose to inhale and exhale clean air.

I have always suffered with asthma. As a child, my asthma attacks terrified me. I can remember being cradled in the arms of my parents all night long, each of them taking turns sitting in the rocking chair as they tried to calm me, encouraging me to take sips of water because they had given me all the asthma medication I was allowed for the day. What sticks in my memory most, beyond the terror of not being able to breathe, was the feeling of being loved unconditionally by my parents, how much I hated having asthma, and how I wanted to kill whatever was causing the attacks so I could go on with my life.

Asthma continues to be an unwelcome intruder in my life — as it is in the lives of twenty-five million Americans. Dust, mold, freshly cut grass, certain types of pollen, and cold or flu season can trigger it, as can a perfume or heavily polluted air. I can't get rid of my asthma, but I do my best to control both the indoor and outdoor air that I breathe. This means avoiding prolonged exposure to environmental allergens whenever possible and taking the steps that I will outline in this section.

You don't have to have asthma to suffer the effects of poor air quality. Asthma is just one of many afflictions that are caused or exacerbated by unsafe and poor-quality air.

Air quality rose to public awareness in 1952, when London suffered through what came to be known as the "Great Smog." Fog combined with sulfurous fumes from coal fires, exhaust from vehicles, and smoke from power plants blanketed the city for five days. It is now considered the worst pollution crisis in European history, and it is estimated that it was responsible for the deaths of eight thousand to twelve thousand people. This disaster prompted Parliament to pass the Clean Air Act in 1956, and the city began its transition from coal for heat to gas, oil, and electricity. However, this was hardly enough to solve a global problem that over the years has been exacerbated by industrial society. In 1955, the United States established its own Clean Air Act, a law that was designed to control air pollution on a federal level, administered by the EPA. It was amended in 1965 by the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act, which authorized the federal government to set standards for controlling emission of pollutants from cars beginning with cars manufactured in 1968. This act is still in place and has since been amended in the 1990s to include air pollution from other toxic air pollutants. The State of California has its own pledge, the Climate Air Scoping Plan, that will reduce statewide emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.

According to the Lancet Commission on pollution and health, pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015 — 16 percent of all deaths worldwide — three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. In 2017, Boston University School of Public Health found that those who live...

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Verlag
Citadel
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0806539003
ISBN 13 
9780806539003
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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