A NOTE FROM LESLIE AND MARIE
Marie and I just want to spend a moment and wish you a very happy holiday season. We have such a great time sharing all the wonderful things we have
learned about living a cleaner – greener lifestyle and we thank you for coming along with us on our journey. Thanks for all your support. Leslie and Marie
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The Happier Camper was born from a vintage ultra-light travel trailer rental business. From there, Derik the owner, started buying and restoring more vintage fiberglass trailers. About three years ago he realized that if they were to grow the business they would have to build their own campers by taking inspiration from the vintage trailers and input from their rental customers. His goal was to build something that is both nostalgic yet modern. The HC1 Happier Camper is packed full of modern conveniences and sensibilities. Derik and his design team used input from his customers about their rental experiences to help them design the perfect new ultralight camper. Comments from customers such as: "I love the vintage camper, but the bed is too short", resulted in them designing and building a wider bed. By expanding the wheel fenders while keeping it within legal small car width limits, they increased the floor space and wheel base which added more stability. Another comment from a rental customer was: "the door is too small for my bike" so they made the side door wider. They also installed a large rear hatch on the trailer that opens up the interior
so you are able to haul larger items, like a motorbike or a jet ski. The rear hatch also creates extra space that can be used as an added room. The biggest concept is that they designed the Adaptiv™ modular interior. This allows the trailer to be used 100's of ways. It is extremely easy to change the interior based on individual needs. The versatility of the camper creates a huge value that every customer appreciates immediately. Young families, older couples, and weekend concert warriors are their primary customers. Derik and his team are helping city folks who want to be outdoors with nature, but don't like the idea of big RVs or tent camping. Their trailers are ultra-light and can be easily pulled by most small cars. They are easy to maneuver and are incredibly comfortable for their size. The HC1 is incredibly efficient while being solar powered and modern. These trailers will become the norm especially with the emergence of electric and
autonomous vehicles. These ultralight campers will be the standard of portable living spaces. The HC1s are available! They are currently but have a waiting list, The base HC1 starts at 15,950 and goes up based on configurations and accessories. See more at: http://happiercamper.tumblr.com/
Having good air quality in our personal environments is important since we spend 80% of our lives indoors. We spend several hours at home, but what are we bringing in from outside to contaminate our space? What products are we using that contribute to poor air quality? Does our home harbor hidden sources of chemical pollution? Children and people with asthma, allergies, and chemical sensitivities may be especially sensitive to indoor pollutants, but other effects on health could appear years later, after repeated exposure.
What products are you using that contribute to poor air quality?
Many steps can be taken to minimize contact to harmful chemicals, such as removing sources of contamination, using safer building materials, and replacing products with safer and greener alternatives. If you have chemical sensitives, allergies, or asthma, this can be especially challenging as those steps alone might not be enough. EnviroKlenz速 is a new line of personal environment products for eliminating sensitivity triggers that was specially designed and inspired by
Having good air quality in our personal environments is important since we spend ≈80% of our lives indoors. We spend several hours at home, but what are we bringing in from outside to contaminate our space? What products are we using that contribute to poor air quality? Does our home harbor hidden sources of chemical pollution? Children and people with asthma, allergies, and chemical sensitivities may be especially sensitive to indoor pollutants, but other effects on health could appear years later, after repeated exposure. Many steps can be taken to minimize contact to harmful chemicals, such as removing sources of contamination, using safer building materials, and replacing products with safer and greener alternatives. If you have chemical sensitives, allergies, or asthma, this can be especially challenging as those steps alone might not be enough. EnviroKlenzŽ is a new line of personal environment products for eliminating sensitivity triggers that was specially designed and inspired by the most sensitive individuals who are dealing with chemical sensitives, allergies, and asthma. The system targets triggers in the air and on surfaces within a personal space. All the products use natural earth minerals that have gone through a patented process to convert them into an active form making them especially good at adsorptive neutralization, while remaining safe for everyone to use. EnviroKlenz is able to effectively minimize triggers for individuals afflicted with multiple chemical sensitivity because it works through multiple pathways against a range of chemistries while, at the same time, ensuring there are no new chemical triggers brought in. These products include a mobile air system that captures and neutralizes a variety of airborne triggers, surface treatments that can be applied to various sources of contamination, and a laundry enhancer for use on the items we wear and are daily exposed to everything we encounter. Learn more at www.enviroklenz.com
by Amanda Sullivan, founder of the perfect daughter: chaos control I throw out stuff - a lot of stuff - for a living. That’s the job, and I love my job. But sometimes the garbage gets me down. My husband can tell you that while I was always concerned about the environment, I’ve gotten worse - or better, depending on your perspective. But in the end, a lot of my “eco-consciousness” has as much to do with space as it does with the environment. Consider the lowly water bottle. We all know how important it is to drink water, and now it is de rigueur for people to stock cases of Poland Spring or Fiji water in their homes. Not me. I have a small kitchen and limited storage capacity. I have five people in my family, so we have five water bottles. Period. Sometime they are in the fridge, sometimes the cabinet, but they use a mere fraction of the space that a case of water would. Better for the earth, better for my budget, way better for my cabinet space. A lot of people save too many shopping bags. They say, “ Well, the little Papyrus bag is good if I take my lunch.” I own three lunch bags. (My older son thinks he’s too cool to take lunch and my husband manages a restaurant, so they don’t need lunch bags.) the eco-organizers top-5 Three lunch bags take about as much room as a couple dishtowels. Make sure every member of your I rarely take a bag from a store because I have two nifty nylon shopping bags in my purse at all times. If I do need a shopping bag, it doesn’t linger long, because I use them to get rid of hand-me downs, which I do frequently.
family has 1 reusable water bottle Don’t take bags in stores, bring your own Switch to reusable lunch containers and bags Only buy paper-party supplies that can be used for other events Weed and recycle old BPA-freebie water bottles and plastic cups
I also really loathe disposable plates, cups and cutlery. First, it just so much nicer to eat off of china and drink out of glass, also, the packaging of paper plates and cups make them particularly annoying to store efficiently. We use cloth napkins and real glasses and it is no big deal, especially now that I have a dishwasher. If I do buy paper plates (for an outdoor birthday party, for example), I try to make them a solid color so that if any are left over, they can be used for a big holiday party or a picnic in the park. It’s always so frustrating when a client is trying to save five princess plates, three Mickey Mouse plates (the ears don’t stack!) and four rectangular fire-truck plates. Recycle them and next year tell your child they can choose solid red or solid blue.
Everyone is looking for ways to make life easier. I understand. But does unloading the dishwasher really take longer than your trip to the recycling bin or garbage chute with your paper plates? Consider instead the time and space spent managing where to store the odd leftover plates, the stash of unruly shopping bags of different sizes and other detritus of disposable convenience. So save yourself and save the earth. Buy one lunch bag, one shopping bag and a water bottle and see what time and space you can open up.
Amanda Sullivan is a Professional Organizer, Founder of The Perfect Daughter, and a media expert on organization. Amanda has been creating order out of chaos since the seventh grade, when she tackled lockers and desks before dreaded inspections at her private school. After college, she segued from working for a temp agency to organizing the temp agency. In 1999, she went into the organizing business full time, founding The Perfect Daughter: Chaos Control. She has since helped more than 200 clients, from hoarders to celebrities. Amanda has appeared on Good Morning America and Living it Up with Ali and Jack with Jack Ford and Ali Wentworth Stephanopoulos. Her advice has appeared in national print magazines such as Woman’s Day and Fit Pregnancy, as well as on popular Web sites such as Next Avenue and About.com.
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Health Promotion at Arizona State University, is concerned about the rising number of people at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes—an astounding 50% of adults, according to some studies. “There are medicines that work fairly well for the pre-diabetic state and for early diabetes, but many people do not want to get on these drugs,” she remarked in an interview with Dr. John Westerdahl on his radio program, Health & Longevity. They want a natural remedy instead because traditional medication is costly and has side effects. Years earlier, Dr. Johnston read about a study that showed a relationship between apple cider vinegar and lower blood glucose levels. With so little published on vinegar as an anti-glycemic agent, she began researching the topic herself. “We recruited individuals with elevated fasting glucose levels, but not at the level of being diabetic,” Dr. Johnston told of the study. For the 12-week study, the only change was that half of the subjects consumed a tablespoon of organic ACV before lunch and dinner. (Dr. Johnston used Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vinegar drink—which is tasty and contains the required one tablespoon of ACV per cup.) The other half of the
subjects were put on ACV pills. These pills contained acetic acid (40mg) but not enough to change blood glucose levels, so they were a perfect placebo. Both groups recorded blood glucose levels. The results were exciting—the effect on fasting glucose was immediate. Those who drank ACV showed about a 14% drop in fasting glucose levels, an effect that was maintained throughout the twelve-week test. Those taking the vinegar pills, showed only a 4% drop. Adds Dr. Johnston, “When you look at studies where the pharmaceutical drug is used for 12 weeks in a high risk population and compare the results with apple cider vinegar use, you see very similar reductions in the fasting glucose.” Dr. Johnston is careful to point out that this study was on pre-diabetics, not on diabetics taking insulin. She also stresses the importance of exercise and diet in early diabetes. She cautions against taking concentrated acetic acid like vinegar pills and adds that liquid apple cider vinegar should be mixed with eight ounces of water before drinking it. (If desired, add honey or stevia for sweetness.) Dr. John Westerdahl is a registered dietitian nutritionist and a board-certified Anti-aging Health Practitioner. He is Director of the Bragg Health Institute and Director of Health Science for Bragg Live Food Products.
To learn more about organic apple cider vinegar and it’s benefits, listen to Leslie’s interview with Patricia Bragg, the owner and CEO of Bragg Live Food Products. Patricia spent an hour talking about her past as well as the wonderful benefits of apple cider vinegar. Listen to this podcast and more on Clean Green Talk.
Environmental Illness is a condition that is initiated most often from over exposure to chemicals or mold toxins in the home or at work. Once over exposed, the body can’t tolerate any chemicals and becomes chemically intolerant. If you are wearing perfume and using scented laundry productsthen you might not notice you are sensitive to anything. Try removing all scents from your environment. In four days you might notice you have developed sensitivities to some or many scents. This process is called 'unmasking'. Dr. Nagy’s Personal Story “I used to wear a ton of perfume and use lots of fabric softener without realizing this was hiding my Chemical Sensitivity. Now as I look back 14 years later -- I have a great story of recovery. My moldy aquarium shed poisoned my home and
almost killed the dogs and myself and my husband, Wes. We all got adrenal failure and neurologic disease from the mycotoxin exposure. I was told I had early Lou Gehrig's and my husband had symptoms of Parkinsonism -- I knew I was dying but was so confused about how to save myself -- and I am a doctor! How could a lay person figure out the cause of their illness- they usually cannot - and succumb! It is a tragedy the people who come to me now for help with their many issues. They want to become healthy – like me. I never heard of Environmental Illness in Medical School. Nor was I never taught that indoor mold growth is extremely dangerous to human’s neuroendocrine systems. I now teach what I have learned at the NIH and the EPA and at medical meetings. I joined the board of The American Academy of Environmental Medicine and received a lot of interest from the American Medical Women's Association where they immediately started up a new Environmental Health Committee!”
“What I have learned by becoming a patient with a condition that is not acknowledged in traditional medicine is that a holistic way of thinking about the body should applied to all chronic diseases. Doctors need to learn to take a patient’s Environmental History and look for adrenal and other hormone and nutritional deficiencies. They need to do a better job of investigating why their patients are sick. Traditionally patients get a quick prescription after a short visit. Patients need to change the way they think when going to visit the doctor. They need to understand that their symptoms are a result of some type of imbalance in their bodies. Patients need to make their doctors do the hard work of investigating these clues that can lead to real cure versus just treating the symptoms. There are ways you can help make changes in our medical system. Think of a place you can get involved, people you can contact in the media, congress or celebrities you could contact to sway public opinion.” Everyone is somewhere on the spectrum from 1 to 10 of being affected by our environment. No one is a zero. Never give up when you become ill. Be your own advocate and look for an Environmental or Integrative Medicine practitioner that can help you find the causes of your environmental sensitivities. Dr Lisa Nagy can be found at wwwlisanagy.com or on YouTube under Lisa Nagy M. D.
Cleanse The two things most lacking in the American diet are good, healthy fiber and good, healthy green foods. This cleanse has both. Quite simply, it is made up of the good, healthy food that most people lack in their normal, everyday diet. The nutrients will feed your body as well as help flush and pull toxins and acids out of the cells. The fiber will absorb these toxins and expand like a sponge. You will then drink a lot of water, which will create a cleaning effect. Along with the sponge-like fiber, the toxic particles, plaque, and other debris that might be lodged in the intestines will be dragged out. Each time you cleanse, it will clean out a little more.
Think of the layers of an onion. When you start, you will get through one layer, and the next time, you will through the next layer. This cleanse is done morning, noon, and night (3 times a day). You may eventually find this is a good part of your daily or weekly routine. You can buy the ingredients at most health food stores or grocery stores. It calls for raw organic green food powder. But, when possible, use fresh, organic green barley grass or wheat grass juice instead of the powder. Fresh is always best, but the concentrated, powdered form makes this cleanse easy to use anytime. If you have trouble drinking green, powdery, highfiber drinks, buy the green food powder in capsule form. This cleanse also calls for psyllium husks. They expand very quickly when put into water and will turn into a thick clump you cannot drink. So, either take psyllium husks in capsule form or drink them quickly once you add water to them. The psyllium husks will then expand in your stomach. They are a great fiber which makes you feel full as it works like a sponge to clean out your organs on its way through. By absorbing toxins, the fiber is able to pull them, as well as waste, from your body.
Ingredients: concentrated raw organic green food powder (or capsules or fresh organic barley grass or wheatgrass juice) Spped cleaning ad organic psyllium husks
Directions: For one to three full days, three or four times a day, starting first thing in the morning, drink an eight-ounce glass of mineral-rich, high quality water: 2-3 tsp. concentrated raw organic green food powder (or 8–10 capsules) 1 tsp. organic psyllium husks (2 capsules) If you are using freshly juiced greens, drink 6–8 ounces of the juice with the psyllium husks. Throughout the day, drink a couple of liters (one ounce of water for every two pounds of your body weight) of mineral -rich water throughout the day.
For more information go to www.organichealthylifestyle.com or purchase Nancy’s best selling book: “How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian – Second Edition) at Amazon. Nancy has great recipes, resources, and cutting edge easy to understand health information in her books. Copyright@nancyaddison2015 Limits of Liability and Disclaimer of Warranty The author and publisher are not liable for misuse of this material. This recipe is strictly for informational and educational purposes. Nancy Addison offers information and opinions, not a substitute for professional medical prevention, diagnosis, or treatment. Please consult with your physician, pharmacist, or healthcare provider before taking any home remedies or supplements, or following any treatment suggested by Nancy Addison or by anyone listed in the recipe, books, articles, or other information contained here. Only your healthcare provider, personal physician, or pharmacist can provide you with advice on what is safe and effective for your unique needs or diagnose your particular medical history. Warning & Disclaimer The purpose of this book is to educate and entertain. The author and publisher do not guarantee that anyone following these techniques, suggestions, tips, ideas, or strategies will become successful. The author and publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to anyone with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to be caused, directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book.
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Recently, the US Department of Labor published updates to federal classifications explaining the definition of employees vs. independent contractors. The next day, one key player in the new “gig economy�, bows out. HomeJoy, a click-to-consume app-driven company that pairs house cleaning providers with consumers in need, conceded its bid to revolutionize the home services industry in a press release issued July 17, 2015, saying the outfit will shutter operations effective July 31. The quick exit is seen by cleaning industry insiders as a harbinger of backlash against companies that outsource home services to contract laborers. These companies subcontract their work, usually to individuals, in an effort to control expenses and maximize shareholder earnings. The problem is this model thrives at the expense of the worker and the consumer.
When Injury Occurs HomeJoy and other companies using contract labor are able to avoid many large expenses required of companies with true employees on the payroll, most notably worker’s comp insurance. It is assumed that the contractor maintains his or her own policies, however, in reality many contract workers forego such a major expense, instead gambling against the odds of injury on the job. “In the unfortunate event that injury does occur, contract cleaning workers may seek (and get) medical reimbursement from the owners of the home they were cleaning when the injury took place,” warns Bart Puett, President of Maid Brigade. Tax Liability Homeowners may also be liable for Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment taxes and penalties for the contract workers who do not make accurate and timely payments to the IRS each quarter themselves. Since the contract worker is not employed by the housecleaning company that dispatched them, the IRS may deem that the homeowner is the employer of that cleaner and therefore, responsible for these taxes . The risk of finding a surprise tax bill in the mailbox is slim for most consumers who have cleaning help but the fees and penalties can be costly, not to mention the professional and social stigma that accompanies real or perceived tax evasion. Don’t Get Taken to the Cleaners Ernie Hartong, CEO of the Association for Residential Cleaning Services International (ARCSI), advises homeowners seeking help with house cleaning to do their homework. “Homeowners should do their due diligence before hiring a house cleaner or professional cleaning service. To avoid the pitfalls that can occur when someone is working in your home, ask to see a copy of the company’s business license and insurance policy before hiring,” cautions Hartong. “A professional company should gladly provide these to any consumer who asks.”