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NO MORE DIRTY LOOKS: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetic

by Siobhan O’Connor and Alexandra Spunt
Often we don’t think about what’s in the personal-care products we use on a daily basis. Siobhan O’Connor, editor of Prevention magazine, and freelance journalist, Alexandra Spunt have created a practical and fun guide to choosing healthier options. The book includes a list of the 100 best clean makeup, hair and skin care products as well as information on making simple DIY concoctions.
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Twitter: @nodirtylooks
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Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry

by Stacy Malkan
The book by Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, chronicles the campaign’s beginning and documents its efforts to pressure the United States cosmetics industry to use safer ingredients. It also provides readers with resources and tools they can use to educate themselves on the potentially hazardous chemicals typically present in personal-care products.
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Twitter: @safecosmetics
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8 Hidden Toxins: What’s Lurking in Your Cleaning Products?

by Jessie Sholl
This great article from Experience Life explains why it’s dangerous to assume that popular household cleaners are safe. Learn about the eight scariest substances hiding under your kitchen sink, and how to replace them with safer, more natural options that really work.
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Navdanya

This participatory research initiative was started by world-renowned physicist, feminist, author and environmentalist, Vandana Shiva, PhD. “Navdanya” means “nine seeds,” which represent India’s collective source of food security. Navdanya’s mission is to protect and conserve plant biodiversity, create awareness of the dangers of genetic engineering, protect indigenous knowledge and culture and support local farmers. The program has its own seed bank and organic farm in northern India and has conserved more than 5,000 crop varieties.
www.navdanya.org  
Twitter: @drvandanashiva  
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Vandana Shiva, PhD

Physicist Dr. Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned environmental and human rights activist. She is founder of Navdanya, a network of Indian seed keepers and organic producers. She is author of multiple books including Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace, Stolen Harvest: the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. www.navdanya.org Twitter: @drvandanashiva
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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

by Susan Freinkel
Ever wondered how plastic became the cornerstone of modern society? Author Susan Freinkel uses eight everyday objects to explain the history of plastic, and offers suggestions for ways we can break our toxic relationship with plastic.
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“Beyond BPA: Could ‘BPA-Free’ Products Be Just as Unsafe?”

by Elizabeth Grossman
Are alternative materials safer than products that legislators want to ban? This well-written article by Elizabeth Grossman in The Atlantic summarizes the potential risks posed by BPA, the challenges of eliminating it and the lack of research on the safety of new BPA-free plastics.
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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
Often cited as inspiration for the environmental movement, Carson’s 1962 book challenged the agricultural practice of utilizing synthetic chemical pesticides. The book meticulously describes how DDT enters the food chain and accumulates in the tissues of humans and animals causing cancer and genetic damage.
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“How to Make a Non-Toxic Cleaning Kit”

A simple list of nontoxic cleaning supplies and the benefits of using them.
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“It’s Proven: Organic Is Better”

by Steven Hoffman
Why organically produced foods are better for human health.
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“75 Things You Can Compost, but Thought You Couldn’t”

The basics of composting and a list of 75 things you can compost that you didn’t think you could.
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It’s Easy Being Green

by Crissy Trask
A nuts-and-bolts guide to tips and resources for greener living.
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Sara Snow’s Fresh Living

by Sara Snow
Feel-good advice and practical suggestions for a healthier and more sustainable way of life.
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No Impact Man

by Colin Beavan
The book and documentary chronicle the adventures of the Beavan family as they try to abandon a high-consumption lifestyle for a year. In order to reduce their carbon footprint, the New York City family gives up meat, automated transportation, electricity and no non-local food.
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