Your Home, Detoxed

Chemicals in everyday household products have been linked to serious health concerns. Getting rid of toxicants can mean a healthier life for all.

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You Home, Detoxed: Green American Feature

In 2008, we published our “Heal Your Home” issue on avoiding toxins and the case for precaution, which went on to become one of our most popular issues. In the following decade, the main chemicals likely to be lurking in your home are still there.

Eleanor Greene

13 Toxic Chemicals Lurking in Your Home

These widely used chemicals may hide anywhere from skin cream to a frying pan. In this issue, we’ll explore where you can find them in your home and what to do to avoid them.

Eleanor Greene

The Room-by-Room Home Detox Guide

This home detox guide identifies the toxic products that could be in each room of your home. Learn how to replace them with green materials.

Eleanor Greene

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Plants that Clean the Air

Plants aren’t just pretty to look at—they can actually purify the air in and around your home, and clean toxic soil, too.

Jes Walton and Eleanor Greene

Image: dad and kids vacuuming, creating a germ-free home

6 Simple Steps to a Safer, Germ-Free Home

The easiest way to eliminate germs and chemicals is to not bring them into your home to begin with. Here are six steps to a germ-free home.

Eleanor Greene

Turning Crisis into Creation with Green Affordable Housing

A new movement is creating lower-cost housing options with clean air, energy efficiency, and climate resilience in mind.

Sytonia Reid

Swap Out Toxics to Green Your Home

Next time you’re doing a home improvement project, look to green products to reduce your exposure to toxic chemicals. Find more at GreenPages.org.

Sytonia Reid

Beth and Kristin stand in front of a bale of materials for recycling

Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine...and Then Recycle

Author Beth Porter on the challenges and opportunities of the US recycling system

Tracy Fernandez Rysavy

Hurricane Harvey flooded neighborhoods in Houston suburbs.

Ready Your Finances for a Climate Disaster

Personal finance expert Tony Steuer will help you prepare your money for nature’s worst.

Sytonia Reid

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