The production of organic cotton clothing is done using [[natural dyes]] and vegetable inks and with agents like [[potato]] starch and hydrogen peroxide to clean and build the fibers.

Sage is used for dark brown or black hair. Henna is effective to add a reddish tinge. Rhubarb Extract - provides yellow coloring for hair.

Many homeowners who have installed bamboo floors, say that they have noticed some shrinkage, especially during winter months

For example, cotton is the second largets agricultural user of pesticides and uses five of the nine most harmful pesticides which include chemicals such as cyanide, dicofol, naled, and propargite. These are carcinogenic.

Its plain logic. The world we live in is rapidly being exposed to every conceivable form of pollution and exploitation. Depleting resources, global warming, climate change are not mere phrases anymore but an imminent threat.

Mothers today cannot just ignore environmental issues - their children, or the concern for their children, will not allow them. Children across the world are constantly doing homework about global warming, preparing projects about green world.

A clean house could actually be a health hazard! Your favourite disinfectant, toilet cleaner and oven cleaners could actually be instrumental in causing Asthma, headaches, nosebleeds and worse. Could we possibly have become too clean for our own good?

Several studies show that we live with pollutants inside our homes that are two to five times higher than those outside it. Carpeting and flooring can fill the air you breathe with many volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including suspected carcinogens.

During the early growth of organic clothing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, organic cotton was recognized as the healthy choice. Now, Conventional cotton is being recast as the sustainable savior and organic cotton is being portrayed as a niche fabric.

http://www.copperwiki.org/index.php/Green_School It is imperitive both for the health of the environment and our children that we encourage our kids to live 'green'. The green school is the best place to start.