clean indoor air

Want cleaner indoor air?

ellen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:18 -0400

A short post today.

Click HERE to see 37(!) very good reasons to take your shoes off at home.

I never thought of #13 (yuck) or #25 before but I really do like the idea of taking off your shoes to set the psychological stage for entry into your home environment.

By the way, you can buy the cute little tag shown above here. Now to find the shoe rack.

Ellen

Improve indoor air quality at home

ellen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:54:49 -0400

The number one way to improve the quality of your indoor air is to remove your shoes before entering your home. Think about it. All the toxins and crap (literally) that you track in on the bottom of your shoes eventually turns to dust and settles on everything you own and becomes inhaled and ingested. Gross.

It is now my habit to remove my shoes when I come home. I have to say though, that I hate walking around barefoot inside, especially since I live with a 4-year-old who is a fairly sloppy eater and a husband who is a fairly enthusiastic cook. The floor is often wet or sticky.

I searched for and found perhaps the greatest green product known to man...mops on slippers called Slipper Genies, I bought ours at Sur La Table. The mop bottoms come off so you can wash them.

One big item on my greening my home project is a good-looking, versatile, shoe rack. I haven't been able to find one, I may just have to design one myself. In the meantime, we'll have to endure the mess at the front door.

Very efficient: making a mess and mopping it up at the same time.

Fun for the whole family!

Growing our own clean indoor air - Sprouts are sighted

ellen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:57:22 -0400

So far we have 6 rubber tree plants sprouting but only one Pygmy
Date Palm (in the little terra cotta planter). I planted 25 of each.
They look way too young to be transplanted so we'll wait and see what
else comes up.