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While doing your part to save the earth, it may be helpful to know the benefits that come from a Greener environment at home.  The EPA warnings are now well known.  Indoor air quality is 5-6 times worse than outside air.  That being said, there are very few things that anyone has suggested beyond changing the cleaning products of the facility.  In fact, the process of identifying and making a few changes in the building is smart as well as practical.

There are twenty-four detoxification suggestion in a new book called, “Detoxify Your Home.”  The same ideas can apply to any building as well.  Candace Richmond R.N. offers the second in her Naturally Green Clean series.   This is a great addition to any home owner or business office.  The reasons are explained in the book, but suffice it to say that we pay a price in our health and employee productivity when it comes to the indoor air quality.

Candace Richmond also revised her first work, “Naturally Green Clean” to include the natural way to deter and eliminate pests as well.  The two books now offer one of best presentations applicable to Greening any operation.  The books can be found at www.NaturallyGreenClean.org allowing an immediate download of great information.

In a convenience-driven world, it is so much easier to grab whatever you need from the store shelf.  What is not being addressed is the long-term health impact of using chemically-based cleaning and household products.  Any discussion about how well the products work is a foregone conclusion.  Most popular products will do the job that they were designed to do.  So, it is just as well to ignore the hype and brag of brands promoted on the media.

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Candace Richmond is a former RN and mother of three boys.  Like most people, she came to better information after struggling with health conditions that were made worse by common products around the house.  She has taken her years of research and experimentation to write a rather remarkable book.  This is nearly a encyclopedia of information compacted into about a 120 page book.  This is something to get and keep as a reference guide for Green cleaning in the home.

I’d also like to add that this $19.95 book will pay huge dividends beyond the health aspect.  All those commercial cleaning products are expensive.  Some suggest that more than 10% of your food bill goes into cleaning products.  Making your own cleaning products will not only protect the health of your home and family it will reduce your grocery store bill in a big way.

Naturally Green Clean has been recently revised to include pest control as well.  As she notes, we have been spraying low-level toxins in our homes and offices for years beleiving that the danger was infinitesimal.  Anyone reading the labels of cleaning and pest control product is forced to realize that the risk is actually substantial and frankly impending.  See: www.NaturallyGreenClean.org

Are you anxiously waiting for one of those elusive Green jobs to appear?  Isn’t everybody?  The promised Green jobs seem to be yet another on of those “word games” of congress and this administration.   We are just gullible enough to believe that all those “jobs bills” are actually jobs bills instead of a tax or pork barrel bills.  The spend-crazed congress is an embarrassment to our country and certain need an overhaul this November.  However, it is my goal to bring the right attitude to anyone who is looking for a job, or a green job.

I was impressed when I read a recent article from the Chicago Tribune that spoke of two veterans who took out a VA loan to start their Green business.

“Two Army veterans are taking to the streets of Muncie with a new business venture they hope will appeal to environmentally conscious travelers.  Cory Brown and Tyler Wright have launched Doing It Green Pedicab to ferry people home from downtown Muncie and bars near Ball State University in a pedicab, which resembles a rickshaw pulled by bicycles.”  This is an industry picking up in others areas as well, like Green Gears in Pittsburgh,

I was extremely impressed about several things in this article.  First of all, they didn’t wait for someone to “give them a job,” but had the heart and courage to make one that filled a community need.  Secondly, they wanted it to be a Green job, which I think is extraordinarily Green.  Third, I loved the inventiveness of their business.  I really hope it catches on like wildfire, and becomes a business model for others.  Wouldn’t this be great in many congested areas, other than vacation sites?

I recall writing about Illinois Governor Quinn signing a law that declassified organic waste as trash.  This allowed organic waste to go to composting areas instead of the land fills.  What a moment of lucid thought for Quinn and the Illinois lawmakers!  The second thought was, “Here is a great chance for some Green entrepreneurs to step up and create a new Green industry.  Collecting the organic waste is a profit center for those doing the work.  I believe that there is some grants or loans for this kind of business.  There may even be some tax credits that make this a even more profitable business.

Once composted, the organically rich soil is then sold to farmers as something better than chemical fertilizers.  The farmers will eventually sell their produce to the restaurants that made that organic trash.  This is that idea “full circle” that we must love as an environmentally-minded people.  Where are the bureaucrats in something like this?  Why not allocate some money for people with Green ideas instead of the money moguls that can’t run a business without bankrupting it?

Other Green careers are the ability to become a Certified Green Consultant or a Certified Sustainability Officer.  A Certified Green Consultant is an independent consultant working to assist many companies to install Green practices and eventually earn Green business certification.  A Certified Sustainability Officer is someone who works within a company to develop and implement a Green program.  h represent an upper level job opportunity, and those going into this area of business need to make themselves invaluable to business.

So, you can wait for a Green job to magically appear one day, or you can go out there and make one.  No one said that it would be easy, but you should make it a career that you will enjoy.  I read once that there were a great many millionaires made in the Great Recession, and I frankly wonder if our present economic situation isn’t a kind or reset where some are knocked out and others step up.  Why not be one of those who steps up and wins the day?