How to be clean and green
East Islip, N.Y.
On a brisk fall evening on New York’s Long Island, party guests gather in Barbara Weir’s home to chat about the news and whip up batches of eco-friendly cleaners.
Green-cleaning parties – where guests create quick, easy, and cheap environmentally-friendly household cleaners in a festive setting – is a fast-spreading grass-roots effort pioneered by Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), an advocacy group based in Missoula, Mont.
The party concept started when WVE put out a report in 2007 called Household Hazards in which they examined more than 200 chemical ingredients in commercial cleaners. The report found that many of those chemicals were harmful to the environment as well as “linked with asthma, infertility, birth defects and reproductive harm,” says WVE spokeswoman Ali Solomon.
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