One of my green-watching co-workers forwarded me Ideal Bite's tip e-mails.
Ideal Bite offers themselves up as "a sassier shade of green." They're a site that offers green tips, sells green stuff, etc.
I learned about it last year but found myself a little irritated for some reason.
Now that I've gone back there, I'm not sure what I didn't like in the first place.
Perhaps my tolerance to "sassy" greenness is up after too many hours of Planet Green.
Either way, hop on over, consider signing up for e-mailed tips relevant to what's going on.
You can sign up for regular tips, Chicago-specific tips, mother tips, etc.
These tips Bite, but in a good, sassy way
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Julie, you're an expert on toxic chemicals and I need your advice. I read about all the toxic stuff in shampoo and shower curtains like you did, and I'm scared to wash my hair or take a shower. I'm also afraid for my food because of the chemicals given off when I use a toxic plastic spatula in a hot frying pan. I'm also afraid of the toxic metals given off if I use a stainless steel spatula instead. And wood isn't any better! The toxic stuff they put in that.....
I decided to use my fingers for cooking instead, but I got burned and it didn't do anything about the toxic metals in my toxic Teflon frying pan. I bought a fireproof glove but it has toxic chemicals in it, too! And the toxic mercaptans they put in the gas on my stove? Aaaargh, can you help me be chemical free from all this toxic stuff so I won't die from cancer at the age of 107?
From now on, I'll never shower again nor cook my food using toxic utensils. I'll never disinfect my toilet lid with toxic sodium hypochlorite either, because it might unpurify my toxin-free house.
Thank goodness for people like you who are willing to forewarn people about all the toxic stuff in things like shower curtains and shampoo.
Years ago, families had picnics while watching atomic bomb tests.
Years ago, American men worked with asbestos in factories with little protection.
Years ago, ads showed M.D.s promising that cigarettes would help your lungs.
Years ago, if you had suggested either of these activities were dangerous, everyone would have said you were crazy.
Now, we know otherwise.
No one is suggesting the lengths you're amusingly suggesting.
But what if you could go back in time and tell a relative that smoking might not be as healthful as they believed? What if you could suggest some protection for men working with asbestos?
Would you try to help or would you keep your mouth shut because some people might think you're a crazy, sky-is-falling hysteric?