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Home again, naturally
By Erin
Crawford
Excerpt from The Des
Moines Register, December 31, 2005
What’s missing from Linda Mason Hunter’s Waveland Park
neighborhood foursquare house? Carpet, harsh
cleaning chemicals, pressed wood furniture, and plastic
(nearly all of it).
What exists? Two water
filters. Plaster walls. All-natural cleaning products, and a rubber bed shipped
from a company in California.
The reasons for these
choices are outlined in
Creating a Safe & Healthy Home, Hunter’s new book on
“household
health.” It’s a guide to outfitting your home with human-friendly materials plus
advice on maintaining
your yard
in a healthy manner. It includes a reference to the good, not-so-good and
flat-out-harmful stuff found in a typical
home.
She does this for reasons
environmental and personal.
Her solutions usually benefit both.
“Our houses should be
regenerative places,” she said. “They shouldn’t draw our energy away. They
should be safe and healthy. So many of our houses aren’t.”
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