Sunday is Earth Day.
How do you plan to celebrate?
You could:
- Reprogram your outdoor lights so that they turn off earlier and help reclaim our dark skies
- Do some Hands-on-Green improvements to save water and electricity
- Clean up trash and recyclables around your neighborhood
- Open up your windows and let the sunshine in
- Rethink how you clean
Have you noticed that fresh scent in the air? That is nature waking up from its long winter nap. Chemical companies try mightily to match the clean fresh brightness of nature in the cleaning supplies that line the shelves of our stores. Scents range from lemon to fresh air but nothing beats opening up the windows and cleaning with natural based products to get a healthy, thorough sunshine clean.
The chemical soup that cleaning product companies offer, provides cleaning power at the price of inviting toxins into our homes and offices. IAQ and IEQ (Indoor air and environmental quality) are popular acronyms these days. And they should be. More and more we live indoor, conditioned lives with fresh air being introduced through building envelope leakage and when the door opens and closes. Unless you have a fresh air exchange system, the only way fresh air comes in is when you let it in. That means that the chemical soup stays right in there with you.
This Earth Day, take a look at your cleaning supplies – read the labels – read the warnings – then rethink how you clean. Look to our Sunshine Clean Guide to find natural, healthier cleaning products to make or buy.
