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Easy Green Living

the Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-friendly Choices for You and Your Home
MelissaMcCarthy
Sep 05, 2013MelissaMcCarthy rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A good compilation of some important information, but the author is a bit too credulous in some cases and offers some frankly harmful suggestions. She suggests that "a wee bit of organic dirt helps to keep the immune system robust... the human digestive tract depends on microorganisms" (p.87). Maybe so, but that's no reason not to wash your produce - "organic" dirt or not. Several times she repeats the myth that plants will clean your air. They won't, unless you tile your walls and floor with them. She repeats the sadly common idea that you should let leftovers cool to room temperature before putting them in the fridge (p.96) - an excellent way to get all-organic food poisoning. She claims that you can "set" the colour of clothing with salt (p.237) - if this is even chemically possible, it would take far more salt than the 1/2 cup she suggests - and that oxygen bleach whitens clothes (p.245) - it can't. As with most green-living books, this one is largely hit-or-miss. Much of the advice is solid, but it seems that there is always some misinformation.