Your home should be the safest, healthiest,cleanest place

Your home should be the safest, healthiest, cleanest place in the whole world.
So we've put together some pretty easy things you can do to make your family safer and your home healthier.
And, as it turns out, what's good for your home is good for the earth and everyone else on it, too. So let's make ourhomes healthy. Let's clean our hearts out. Let's Get Clean.
Get the dirt. Educate yourself about what you bring into your home at www.householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov
Have a clean-for-all. Put on the gloves and get rid of the nasty stuff in your home. Responsibly, of course. Your local waste collection service has guidelines for proper household hazardous waste disposal, as well as collection sites for things like paint, batteries, and cleaners. Whatever you do, please don't toss this stuff in the garbage.
Welcome healthy into your home.Commit to carefully considering everything that crosses your doorstep. Here are some safe, healthy things to have in your home:
Fresh air. Open your windows to reduce indoor air pollution.
Essential oils. Use these instead of air fresheners.
Plants. Besides being nice to look at, they can absorb harmful gases and help clean the air.
Organic cotton bedding. Avoid standard bedding treated with chemicals.
Floors made of recycled and renewable resources.
Healthy paint. That new paint smell can be as nasty as it smells. Choose low VOC paint instead.
Cleaners that are truly cleaner. Look for these clean credentials on Get Clean products: non-toxic, natural,biodegradable, concentrated, and hypoallergenic.
Clean up our collective home.Make the earth healthier for all of us who call it home by using these things in yours:
Compact fluorescent lighting. They last a whole lot longer.
Energy Star-rated appliances. Save money and energy.
A low-flush toilet. Replace the largest user of water in your house. Ultra low flushers cut water use by one-fifth.
Low-flow showerheads. Same pressure. Less water.
Your flicker finger. Turn off lights and appliances when you're not using them.
Gray water system. Install one to recycle used household water for your lawn.
Tankless water heater. Save money, energy, and space in the broom closet. Use it to store your newGet Clean Starter Kit.
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Below you will find some interesting information about the world around us.

Dr. Wangari Maathai
In 2004, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. She was the first woman from Africa to be so honored.

Wild Dolphin Project
The Wild Dolphin Project (WDP) is currently working on a two-way project in which researchers are developing techniques to bridge the communication gap between dolphins and humans.

Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA Climate Leader’s program is an industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop long term, comprehensive climate change strategies. As an EPA Climate Leader, Shaklee pledges to maintain net zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions through 2009.

Ocean Alliance
Ocean Alliance, a recognized global leader in whale research and conservation, was founded in 1970 as the first organization to study live, free-ranging whales and continues today to run the longest continuous research program on whales.

American Forests
American Forests is a world leader in planting trees for environmental restoration, a pioneer in the science and practice of urban forestry, and a primary communicator of the benefits of trees and forests.

Check out this great on line Magizine,filled with tons of interesting articals.

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Going Green

"Shaklee has now set the standard by which all other companies will be measured," says Sue Hall, Executive Director of the Climate Neutral Network. "Other businesses will look to Shaklee as a leader in developing and implementing a comprehensive climate-neutral strategy that has significant, positive effect on both business and the environment," says Hall.The Climate Neutral Network is an alliance of companies, environmental organizations, and government agencies committed to promoting products, activities and enterprises that minimally impact the Earth's climate. Other leading Climate Neutral partner companies include Nike and Interface Inc. Participating environmental groups include the Earth Day Network, Rocky Mountain Institute, World Resources Institute, Conservation International and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Government agency participants include the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Daniel Lashof, Senior Scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council and Chairperson of the Climate Neutral Network Environmental Advisory Panel says, "Shaklee's example should serve to usher in a new era of corporate responsibility for investing in innovative technologies to drive down CO2 emissions."More than 2,500 scientists around the world agree that human activities which emit CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are contributing to global warming, or, more accurately, global climate change. Experts believe that global climate change is a serious threat not only to the Earth's environment but also to the planet's human population."We have made the environment a top priority in our practices for more than forty years," says Robert Schults, President and CEO of the Shaklee Companies. "Earning the first Climate Neutral enterprise certification in this country elevates us to a leadership role on global climate change. It also resonates with our founding mission of Living in Harmony with Nature.™"Shaklee's nationwide network of half a million distributors will have the opportunity to share this news of the Climate Neutral certification with their local communities. "Many, many people at Shaklee have dedicated the past several years to help us become 'climate neutral,' and we believe the message about global climate change is an important one to share," says Schults. "What better way than through the grassroots voice of our distributors? This is a proud period in our history and a critical time for the planet we call home," adds Schults.Shaklee received outstanding performance results in reducing its on-site GHG emissions, in large part due to its state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Norman, Oklahoma, and its new world headquarters facility in Pleasanton, California. The campuslike structure showcases energy efficient designs and sustainable resource materials. For example, high performance glazing is used throughout to maximize daylight and limit solar heat absorption.Shaklee determined the CO2 emissions "footprint" of its entire operations and invested in national and international offset projects to zero out its emissions. As a Climate Neutral certified company, Shaklee agreed to fund projects ranging from upgrading existing oil steam boilers to efficient natural gas systems at four Portland, Oregon schools to providing solar generated electricity to rural populations in Sri Lanka and India.Founded in 1956, Shaklee Corporation is an innovative global marketing company with a long history of caring about community and environmental issues. A diversified consumer products company, Shaklee is a leader in nutrition and has developed a skin care line with two patents that help to counter the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation and free radicals.In 1989, Shaklee was purchased as a wholly-owned subsidiary by Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., one of the largest and most profitable pharmaceutical companies in Japan. The combination of the two firms has created a global entity on the cutting edge of science and technology, offering high quality products that continue Shaklee's tradition of health, wellness and sensitivity to the environment.

(info from Shaklee site)

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Happy Earth Day!

The Real Dirt on Clean .....

Are you living in a healthy home?

You know that good, healthy feeling you get when you've just cleaned house? Sorry to spoil it, but you may have just made your home dirtier.
Think of it this way. You wouldn't let your kids play with toxicchemicals, so why would you let the baby crawl over a floor that's just been wiped with them? That's much more dangerous than the orange juice that was just there.
How dangerous? Just take a look at these statistics.
Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home.
Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involvedin poisoning.
Organic pollutants, found in many common cleaners andeven air fresheners, are 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out.
A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the "acute one-hour exposure limit" for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
Common cleaners give off fumes that have been linked toincreasing the risk of your kids developing asthma, the most common serious chronic childhood disease.
1 in 13 school-aged children has asthma. Rates in children under five have increased more than 160% from 1980 - 1994.
Children are highly vulnerable to chemical toxic ants. Pound for pound of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food and breathe more air than adults. The implication of this is that children will have substantially heavier exposures than adults to any toxic ants that are present in water, food or air.
If your home is anything like the average U.S. home, yougenerate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each year (the EPA designates toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach as hazardous waste).
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At Shaklee we believe that the small act of scouring the sink can be part of the giant act of changing the world.
Get Clean offers you nontoxic and natural cleaning choices that are SAFE, POWERFUL, GREEN and SMART. Because when it comes to keeping your house clean and the earth safe, you shouldn’t have to choose. When you use Get Clean, you’re never simply cleaning. While you make your home cleaner, you can make your family healthier. You also make the planet healthier for other families as well.

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A Better You. Better World.

Shaklee. Better You. Better World. ™

Can products work well and be good for us? Can we do what we do every day and still make a difference? Can we live different lives without starting over?

Yes.

Shaklee has never believed in the way things are but in the way they can be.Better health through better science leading to a better world, built one personand one product at a time. Our company has held these principles for more than50 years, but to many they still feel brand new:
Nature protects our health, which is a great reason to protect nature.
If sustainability isn't accessible and beneficial to all, it's not sustainable.
The better we do, the more good we can do. By appealing to every individual'sdesire to do better, we can create a better world.

For what we take, we give something back.
When green was just a color, Shaklee began making products that respected the earth and supported physical health. But we didn't stop there. Shaklee always believed sustainability began with people's own lives. Our products are sold by the people who use them, which means they help people feel better and make a living. So the better our customers feel physically and do financially, the more they can do for others. We find they usually do quite a bit.
Nothing's changed. Everything's changed. Today, we're a $500 million company still run by people who believe the best is not a destination but a way of life.
A better you, better health, a better world. It's not just possible. It's happening-again and again-every day.

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