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Eco friendly cleaning products should not pollute the environment in any way and also help keep your home clean as a whistle. Our homes are overloaded with toxic chemicals, more then we would like to believe, why add more to chemicals to our home when there are perfectly good eco friendly cleaning products that have proven to be as effective as any commercial, chemical based products? For one I think it’s just easier to buy cleaning products off the shelves, more convenient, and two we don’t have time to make our own natural cleaning products. Organic Cleaning Products

Organic cleaning products should be considered to replace your commercial cleaning products. I used commercial cleaning products my entire life but my friend suggested to me that I should look into more natural, organic cleaning products. Eco Friendly Cleaning

Housework it seems is never done and often it is all too easy to resort to harsh chemicals and energy guzzling appliances to get our chores done. These shortcuts can save us bags of time but quite often they have a negative effect on the environment.That’s right, white distilled vinegar is a wonderful general all around cleaner. It’s naturally acidic and can be used for such things as removing dirt and grime from most of your household surfaces. Remember though to never use it on marble. The acid will damage a marble surface.
Possibly the only rival to white vinegar would be baking soda. Baking soda can be used to clean, deodorize, as a polish and stain remover. As well as even softening fabrics.
Salt is another great abrasive for cleaning such things as pots and pans. Mix equal parts of lemon juice, vinegar and water for a de-clogging solution for your drains.
Club soda can be used to remove stains on clothing as well as some furniture upholstery.
Mineral oil can be used for furniture polish and cornstarch can be used to shampoo carpets.
These are but a few choices of environmentally friendly (green) household cleaning products you probably already have on hand. So if you want to go “Green” you don’t have to spend a ton of money to do it.

Granted, I am not coming at you from an environmentalist mindset.  In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.  I am of the mindset that a lot of the Green thinking borders on the “Guilt” aspect that characterizes  you  as bad if you aren’t Green for some reason.

Quite honestly, the Green movement can be a bit radical in its propagation of their overall message and, from a design standpoint, the lens that I often gage things, the materials have not been there to justify a Green Living Home.  That has begun to change with some great new design materials that has started to spark the interest of the design community, and, more importantly, become more reasonable from a price standpoint.

Now, here are some things you can do to be more Green just by making changes in the things you do everyday and in future design changes that you may be making in your home.

First, if you are about to do an Interior Design change, look at your electrical systems.  There can be a tremendous waste in your electrical output systems.  Even if you are not doing Interior Design changes , walk around your home and see it there are ways you can reduce some of you electrical waste.  If you just did some minor changes in the way you used your electricity by making sure appliances are turned off when not in use, etc, you could probably realize a 6% to 20 % difference in you bill each month a recent study showed.

From a Design standpoint, it goes without saying to spend the extra money for the  energy efficient appliances.  An option that is not as difficult to do these days, but still needs to be thoughtfully considered.

There are some simple changes from a lighting standpoint by changing out some of the bulbs that are claiming to be more efficient.  I am not talking about going crazy and just start changing them out, but when you need to make a change, do so then. 

Also look at you filters in heating and air conditioning units.  My Dad was a heating and air guy for years and was always shocked as to how people just wouldn’t take the time to change the filters which would cause countless dollars in repair bills yearly.  There are some pretty decent filtration systems, but are still a little pricey compared to regular ole filters.

Finally, from a Kitchen Design standpoint, Bamboo and cork flooring should be considered in Interior Design, as they are dynamic looking.  Kitchen cabinets can also be redone with similar alternatives to wood which can like just like exotic woods. 

There are some great looking Metal and Stone alternatives which are also good for Kitchen counters and cabinets and a great product, IceStone, one brand of recycled glass used to create countertops for kitchens and bathrooms that generally ranges between $100 and $150 a square foot. 

The point is that there is finally coming into the market place a great plethora of products that are Green focused to design and live in your  Green house.  With the changes you can make from a Design standpoint and just the changes you do by walking around the house, you can be Green.  Just don’t let it be out of guilt. 

It’s kind of like when I used to eat Twinkies that I loved so much and said that sooner or later there would be a low-fat version, and I was right. 

Its the same with going Green.  They’ll catch up.

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What is it made of? Are these materials natural and renewable? Or are they toxic and from a finite source?
How is it made? Does the process cause unnecessarily high levels of pollution? Is it tested on animals? Does the company do something to help reduce its environmental impact?
How is it used? Is it disposable? Is it energy efficient? Does it produce less waste?
How do you get rid of it? Is it recyclable? Is it biodegradable? Or is it harmful to the environment?

Keeping these thoughts in mind when you buy something will tell you whether or not they are eco friendly products.
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Rechargeable Batteries: Everybody has some type of battery operated device.
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Have you ever read the ingredients found on the back of your favorite shampoo or hair conditioner? It may shock you to learn exactly what chemicals some of these products contain that you’re putting on your hair daily. Go Green With Eco Friendly Toys

People often wonder how they can involve their children in their efforts to go green. The best way to do this is by buying eco friendly toys, while explaining the importance of going green to the kids. This way, they can benefit from eco friendly products while learning a thing or two about sustainable living at the same time. How Eco Friendly Products Can Make Me Healthier

What is an eco friendly product? A very good example of that is a simple plastic bag. Stores no longer give you a plastic bag when you buy their goods – instead they offer bags which they term ‘green’. But did you that eco friendly products can make you healthier?Turn them into more eco friendly products by using rechargeable batteries. They may seem expensive at first, but considering that they are reusable hundreds of times, they will save you a lot of money in the long run. They have an added bonus of reducing landfill toxins.

Tankless Water Heaters: They don’t waste energy keeping your water hot. They heat the water as it’s needed, and are about 90-100% efficient, depending on the model. They’re eco friendly products with the added bonus of saving you money.

Digital Thermostat: They’re available with timers and are programmable.
That means you can reduce your heating or air conditioning while no one is home or while you are sleeping and save a lot of money. Simply adjusting your thermostat a couple of degrees can save you money, and help the planet. It averages to 3% of your bill per degree of adjustment.

Geothermal Heat Pump: One of the more attractive eco friendly products, they can keep your house at a constant temperature and will heat your water, all using the natural heat of the earth. They aren’t cheap, but once they are installed they will save you a bunch of money, operating almost without cost, and reduce your impact on the earth.

Solar and Wind Power: Due to increasing levels of awareness, they are becoming more cost effective, efficient and available. You can get solar or wind power for your home, but also for charging small electronics now.

Cleaning Supplies: Believe it or not, you don’t need harsh chemicals to clean most things around your home. In fact, it has been recently proven that antibacterial products are bad for you and the environment. Changing to more eco friendly products is a simple and healthy way to go green.

Furniture: You may not think to go green with your furniture, but it’s available now, usually items made from renewable resources or recycled materials.

Apparel: Natural and organic renewable fibers instead of petroleum based synthetics are becoming more popular, and just feel better. Think of them as the stylish version of eco friendly products.

Efficient Lighting: While compact fluorescent lighting saves money, they do contain mercury, which means they have to be disposed of properly. On the plus side, they will outlast several incandescent bulbs and use far less energy. LED lights are truly eco friendly products, lasting decades and using little energy, but are more expensive initially.

No more excuses. It’s becoming easier every day to go green with the widespread availability and development of eco friendly products.

Are we seeing the begiining of the end to church tax exemptions, special privileges, and the like? Can the Catholic church assure people that their kids will be protected? Is there a qucik fix? The Souls of White Folk

I attended my first Black History class in 1968 at the University of Maryland (UM). The class came about because black students demanded it in that tumultuous year. They were supported by a small but significant number of white students. Higher Expectancy Requires More Nursing

It is no doubt that the numbers of old Americans in nursing homes and long term care facilities has experienced a staggering increase, which is over 1.6 million. Adding to this figure is approximately one quarter of the total U.S. population which have access to checking services into one of these facilities. A Higher Standard?

In this day and age of unoriginality, the author asks whether it is time for us to actually live our lives for ourselves rather than for our parents and ancestors dreams and expectations. With the divorce rate as high as it is, with depression as prevalent as ever and dissatisfaction at an all time high, perhaps there is another way to live, a way to achieve a higher standard by thinking about the consequences of our actions.If you think your life is miserable or great, you are right. Life is whatever you think it is. The same is true for the state of the world. It is what humanity collectively thinks it is. Energy and all forms of matter attract like-vibrational energy. Our thoughts are energy magnets. They attract whatever we point them at.
Your thoughts are living things. When you step into a room full of people, you can sense the living atmosphere created by the collective thought waves of the people in the room. You may sense a calm or a tense atmosphere. The collective thought waves of the 6.5 billion people on Planet Earth also create an atmosphere and it affects everyone either consciously or unconsciously. Like the Borg in Star Trek, you can tune into this “collective consciousness” and broadcast ideas to others who will receive and act on them. You are a drop in the ocean of thought and the ocean of thought is in every drop.
The Universal Law of Attraction is working in your life right now. You are attracting the personal situations that you are experiencing. You are also attracting the global situations through your individual contribution to the collective mass consciousness. Think about what you are contributing. Once you are aware of this Universal Law and how it works, you can start to use it deliberately to attract what you want instead of what you don’t want.
Any thought you have, when combined with emotion, vibrates out from you to the universe. Like a boomerang, it returns whatever you focus on. All you have to do is allow yourself to expect what you want. Sounds easy, right? The hard part is becoming ‘doubt-free’. You must expect what you want without doubt, act like you already have it and be grateful for it. Like drops in the ocean, each and every person is individually responsible for their contribution to mass consciousness. By expecting a New World Order, an Antichrist, an Apocalypse and end times, your contribution to the collective consciousness is “dark”. Expect miracles. Expect a Golden Age.
When you assume 100% responsibility for everything you’re experiencing in your reality right now – absolutely everything – only then will you possess the power to alter your reality.
DECEMBER 12, 2012
The ruling families are in a race with time to manifest mastery over the third dimension…but something is happening “right now” that they hadn’t counted on. There is a transformation in human consciousness leading up to December 21, 2012. A ‘galactic alignment’ is expected to occur on that date which will mark the end of the 26,000-year Mayan calendar. Mayan timekeepers predict that Earth and humanity are being birthed into a dramatic and unified elevation in consciousness.
CHANGING YOUR BELIEFS
You are made up of billions and billions of “programmed” beliefs about what is real and what’s not real, what you should or shouldn’t be or wear or say or do. You have downloaded beliefs about how attractive you are, about your body, your intelligence, about God, sin, life after death, morality and class. You have been innundated with disaster scenarios about the future of humanity – a global depression, an apocalypse, Armageddon, end times, depopulation, nuclear war, an Antichrist ruler and other disempowering, fear mongering, toxic propoganda.
If you stop and look closely at your thoughts and beliefs, you will discover that instead of serving you, they serve the agenda of the ruling families. Although you may feel you are immune to religious and political propaganda, your immunity is overpowered by the repetition of messages that burrow into your subconscious just below your conscious radar.
The ruling families have taught you slave consciousness. You tick tock through life with alarm clocks, car clocks, work clocks, the TV clock, the cell phone clock, wrist watches, wall clocks and calendars. It’s “breakfast time”, “lunch hour”, “break time”, “traffic hour”, “news hour”, “happy hour”, “week end”, “dinner time”, “bed time”, “tax time. You sit in traffic, stand in line-ups, watch mind numbing TV trivia interrupted by endless commercials. You settle for a 14 day holiday out of the 365 days it takes for the Earth to circle the Sun. You trade your labor for digits at the bank. You celebrate birthdays, New Years, Valentine’s day, St. Patrick’s Day and countless other repetitive cycles of commercialized nonsense. From cradle to grave, you obediently tick-tock through life like an automaton, serving the ruling families. Despite the servitude, they have somehow convinced you that you are free. “None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” – Goethe
YOUR PSYCHIC POWERS
You have the power to influence matter and the physical world with just the power of your thoughts. It’s called ‘telekinesis’. YOU WERE BORN WITH THAT POWER. All you have to do is awaken your pineal gland or “third eye”. Like an atrophied muscle, this unused part of your brain can be strengthened through exercise and by eliminating fluoride from your toothpaste and water supply. Telekinesis is the same mind-over-matter power that the ruling families have been using since ancient times to manifest their power over you and over the physical world. How do you think the stone tonnage of Egypt’s Great Pyramids was cut, carved, moved long distances, erected and positioned within fractions of an inch? Some of the stones weighed as much as 50 tons! Do you believe the media tales about how these Herculean stones were moved without drills, explosives, lasers, forklifts, cranes or steel cables?
The term ‘psychic powers’ conjures up negative images of black magic, gypsies, witchcraft, exorcists, faith healing hoaxes and sorcery. That is the reputation the corporate media has given it. Why? To discourage your interest in developing your personal power. Like any skill, your psychic powers develop with regular use and they atrophy from lack of use.
In their book, China’s Super Psychics, Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill describe the amazing psychic abilities of gifted children. The American magazine Omni got involved when the children were being tested to make sure there was no cheating. They quickly became convinced that the children’s abilities were entirely real. In one case, a child took a sealed pill bottle off a shelf at random and placed it on a table. After a few moments the pills passed through the glass bottle and settled on the table. The child then placed a coin on the table and it passed back through the glass into the sealed bottle. In another case, a thousand people sitting in an auditorium were each given a rose bud to hold. A six year old girl came on stage and with a silent wave of her hand, the thousand rosebuds slowly opened into full bloom before the eyes of the astonished audience.
By practicing concentration exercises and telekinesis, you can learn the mechanics of manifestation. Once you discover that you can move an object with the power of your thoughts, you realize that you can influence matter at a molecular level. You have the power to influence everything in the physical world from a molecule to the entire globe with just the power of your thoughts. You have the power to heal yourself and the Earth. It starts with the belief that you can do it and then actually “doing it”! Learn how to manifest the reality you want instead of the reality that the ruling families are manifesting for you.

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Eco-friendly cleaning products make use of non toxic chemicals which can be found in regular food ingredients and other general household products such as toothpaste. This may sound unusual, but when you consider how many ordinary household ingredients are still used as cleaning products (Bicarbonate of soda, for example, lemon juice, or salt), it makes sense that if they are safe for the environment while still being effective, that they should be used.
One example of Eco friendly carpet cleaner uses a solution which is sprayed onto the carpet, worked into the fibres using a brush machine, and then rinsed with a solution mostly composed of water, which lifts the dirt from the fibres.
The solution also contains a small amount of surfactant and a PH balancer.
These water based cleaning solutions can provide a method of carpet cleaner which is safe to use for children and pets as well as the environment, and which still contain antibacterial agents. Even steam cleaning processes using the minimal amount of ingredients have antibacterial qualities.
Attitudes to Eco-friendly cleaning products are changing too. Where previously an environmentally friendly cleaning product might be considered weaker than its chemical filled counterpart, or less able to have an antibacterial effect, or less effective simply because it does not smell of bleach, eco-friendly cleaning products are now becoming more and more effective at doing the job they are supposed to do, at minimal risk to others.
Twenty or thirty years ago, some of the compounds used in cleaning products which are used today were the only things available. But, by taking into account that some of these ingredients were environmentally friendly, and by becoming more informed about eco-friendly cleaning, something as simple as carpet cleanercan be of benefit to the health of the environment and of those who inhabit it.

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2. Hear the sounds around you after the project is complete. When launching a TeleSeminar, Workshop or Retreat, I hear the buzz of my participants and the excitement in their voices from what they have learned. What does your environment sound like once your desired result is reality?
3. Smell the aromas that surround your project once it’s complete. What season is it? Do you smell fresh picked raspberries of summer, apple pie of fall, or maybe the lilacs of early spring.
Perhaps it is the scent of a conference room after a big event.
4. Taste the experience. What will you be feeding your body? Taste the water you will drink, the celebration champagne, the tea you will sip, or the gum you will chew.
5. Feel the feeling of this projects completion. Where are you, are you seated in a comfy chair? Is someone hugging you? Are you jumping in joy? Maybe you feel relief. Let your heart open up and express the joy that you will experience once the event is complete. Of all the sense feeling the experience of felling in advance is the most powerful.
This simple process will help create the experience in advance and engage your unconscious mind to get busy making it happen. Engage your senses and then craft your action steps. Remember to use your core values as a filter for action. You can read more about defining your core values in my last post. You will evoke a powerful source to support you in choosing the best course of action. Now it’s time to get busy with the action plan. Ask powerful questions of yourself. Looking to the future for your answers. I ask myself, “What would a joyful, empowering, philanthropic entrepreneur do now?” What is our question based on who you are becoming? You will find that powerful questions based on the future combined with 5 minutes of evoking your senses will increase your clarity and help you choose the most effective steps to take to reach your projects completion.

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