Whew! What a week this has been! By the time you read this I'll be in Los Angeles, preparing to give a seminar for the natural products industry at the Natural Products Expo West.

I'm leading a panel discussion called "Toxic Exposure: Keys to a Safe Home." The panelists are all eco-minded Hollywood stars: Ed Begley Jr, Amy Smart, Wendie Malick, and the head of the Environmental Media Association Debbie Levin. It's only open to the industry, or I would invite you all to come.

I'm writing this before getting on the airplane after working night and day to do all my regular work, plus the work that has to be done while I'm away, plus I just spent all day writing my seminar.

Since I have to get on a plane tomorrow morning, today's newsletter will be shorter than usual. But in the next issue I'll have news from the Expo to share, and then in the next issue, well, it might just be warm enough to jump into my chlorine- free pool...and then you can come see my new green bathroom...

So today, since I'm traveling, I thought at the very least I could post an At Home With Debra about my Homes Away From Home: Less-toxic Hotel Rooms. I'll give you some tips about how I find hotel rooms that are safer.

I'd also like you to read some essays about living local that I posted on my Wisdom of Life website. Living in a way that is appropriate to your place includes buying and making the stuff of everyday life from local materials and from local businesses, and using technologies approrpriate to your area. These essays introduce this concept.

Bioregionalism ~ Definition gives a simple definition.

Mapping Our Place as a Bioregion tells of my own personal experience mapping my place in California.

Bioregional Musings Along Interstate 10 gives my bioregional observations while driving cross country from California to Florida.

Debra :-)

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Home Safe Home tells what toxic chemicals are generally found in specific household products of all types, and safe solutions you can buy or make at home. It's different from other books on toxic chemicals because the focus really is what you can do to protect yourself and your family and create a healthy home. I bring over twenty years of research and personal real-life experience to this book.

* More information

* 10 Simple, Inexpensive Things You Can Do To Reduce Household Toxics

* How Toxic is Your Home? Quiz (excerpt from the book)

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