With industry
and government reluctant - or even unwilling - to help clean up
pollution, the responsibility of saving the environment falls
increasingly on the individual.
Household
Ecology is the long-awaited and desperately needed comprehensive
guide to ecologicallly "safe" living. Instead of the hackneyed
"don'ts," here are hundreds of imaginative, positive suggestions that
any consumer can put into practice immediately - and effectively
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Here are
scores of natural, efficient, and biodegradable substitutes for laundry
detergents, furniture polish, and other chemical household cleansers.
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Non-toxic beauty aids, medicines, and tranquilizers that are guaranteed
free of side effects, as nature intended them. (Use olive oil as a
skin-softener and coffee as a laxative!)... Insect sprays and
repellants that work against insects instead of people and all of whose
ingrediewnts come from the country store. |
Household Ecology
by Julia Percivall and Pixie Burger
Prentice-Hall, 1971
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