By guest blogger, Chris Bird of MamaBirdsBlog.com. If you’re having some post-Christmas guilt right now as I am about going a little overboard in the consumerism department, have heart. There is redemption. Maybe it’s because I’m new at this parenting thing as the mother of a three-year-old, but for the third year in a row,… Read More
Finally, a Good Night’s Sleep and a Healthier Home!
Guest blogger, Oram Miller, BBEI, of Create Healthy Homes explains how EMF’s effect our sleep in Part 4 of this series. In my last post, we talked about the unknown EMF in the home, electric fields. Gauss meters only measure magnetic fields, which are actually better known and more harmful but less common than electric… Read More
Electric Fields, Melatonin and a Deep Night’s Sleep: What’s the Connection?
Guest blogger, Oram Miller, BBEI, of Create Healthy Homes explains how EMF’s effect our sleep in Part 3 of this series. When was the last time you tossed and turned in the middle of the night for no good reason, unable to fall back asleep? Do you have all the latest gadgets plugged in by… Read More
How to Be Safely Connected in the Wireless Age
Guest blogger, Oram Miller, BBEI, of Create Healthy Homes explains the hidden dangers of wireless communications: cell phones, cordless telephones and Wi-Fi in Part 2 of this series. In a previous post, we laid out the growing problem with wireless communications and the concerns that scientists and doctors have that health problems in people constantly… Read More
14 Steps to Properly Clean Up a Broken CFL
“What if I accidentally break a fluorescent lamp in my home?” One thing you do not want to do is to run your vacuum cleaner over the fragments and mercury dust of a broken CFL. You can pretty much throw the vacuum cleaner away after that. Otherwise you risk contaminating everywhere else you use the… Read More