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Healthy Home and Work Place

  • Healing Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well-Being—Carol Venolia (1988)—guide to increase our awareness of how buildings influence our well-being, and how to create health-inducing environments with proper use of light, color, heating, sound, plants and elimination of indoor air pollutants. 224 pp., pb.

  • Your Home, Your Health and Well-Being: Pollution-Free Home Renovation and Design—David Rousseau, W.J. Rea, Jean Enwright (1988)—well organized guide on how to design or renovate to be free of toxic building products and indoor pollution. Detailed explanations of all types of indoor and outdoor pollutants, where to look for them, how they affect us, and how to remove them. Room by room description of a health conscious home, the main concerns, typical problems, and what to change. Also covers materials selection, construction details, resource lists and tips for the environmentally sensitive for creating a stress-free sanctuary. 300 pp., pb.

  • Cross Currents: The Promise of Electromedicine, the Perils of Electropollution—Robert Becker, M. D.—good explanation for the lay person of electromagnetic pollution by the main U.S. researcher. Explains the crucial difference between the earth's magnetic field within which all life has evolved and the aberrant man-made fields which are related to increases in cancer, birth defects, depression, learning disabilities, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Alzheimer's diseases, AIDS, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Also describes how electro-medicine enhances the body's inherent healing abilities and explains the effectiveness of acupuncture, homeopathy, etc. 336 pp., pb.

  • Earth Radiation (reprint of Experiences of a Dowser)—Kathe Bachler (1976, 1989)—report on a carefully document-ed study of the detrimental effects of geopathic stress zones on human health, sleep and learning difficulties. The only book available in English on the extensive work conducted in Germany and Austria by physicians, dowsers and public health officials on the correlations between cancer, allergies, arthritis, rheumatism, etc. and radiations emanating out of the earth above flowing underground water. Discusses symptoms and their relief by relocation of beds away from geopathic zones. Compiled from lectures with statistical evidence and samples of the 3000 case studies. 209 pp., pb.

  • Healthy House: How to Buy One, How to Build One, How to Cure a "Sick" One—John Bower (1989)—a more com-prehensive reference book about all the common construction practices and building materials that may have harmful health effects. Describes available, alternative, less toxic techniques and materials and lists some of their suppliers. Organized by systems: framing, flooring, walls, heating, ventilation, electrical, plumbing, etc.; materials: concrete, paint, insulation, wood products, etc.; and the nature of building-related illness. 392 pp., pb.

  • Why Your House May Endanger Your Health—Alfred Zamm, M.D. & Robert Gannon (1982)—the information you need to determine if and how you are being affected by dust, mold, vapors, chemicals, clothing, furnishings, cleaning products, electromagnetic pollution, etc. in and around your home. How to design and build a non-toxic home. 218 pp., pb.

  • The Natural House Book: Creating a Healthy, Harmonious & Ecologically Sound Home Environment—David Pearson (1989)—a more flashy presentation with photographs to inspire and illustrate what can be done, which may spark your imagination in creating a healthy home. Not as much depth as above books. 287 pp., pb

  • House Dangerous: Indoor Pollution in Your Home and Office and What You Can Do About It!—Ellen Greenfield (1989)—most useful book for those not building their own home. Greatest detail available about pollutants;, what to do about them, sources for monitoring devices and non-toxic products.

  • The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life—Robert Becker, M. D. & Gary Selden (1985)—primer on the beneficial and detrimental effects of electromagnetism on all life. How electrical currents stimulate tissue regeneration, and EM radiation affects our immune system, thoughts, emotions and rate of cancer growth. Documents the sources of radiation (appliances, power lines, microwave transmitters, etc.) and the government's and power companies' suppression of this information. 448 pp, pb.