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Cleaning

• Less-Toxic Cleaning from the US Environmental Protection Agency
• Less-Toxic Pest Management for Home and Garden (from Clean Bay)
• Heloise
• HowToCleanAnything

Home Improvement/Building

• Whole House Building Supply and Salvage, 1955 Pulgas Ave, East Palo Alto
  Sales hotline: 650-852-9460
  Regular Line: 650-856-0634
• Building Materials Salvage
• Restoration Hardware
• Great Lamps
• National Building Cost Estimator free residential cost estimator
• Environmental Home Center
• US Green Building Council
• Whole Building Design Guide
• Green Building from California Integrated Waste Management Board
• San Jose Green Building Program
• Forest Stewardship Council: verification of products from environmentally responsible forests
• Smith and Hawkin
• Natural Home Magazine
• Prescriptions for a Healthy House: A practical guide for architects, builders and homeowners, by Paula Baker, Erica Elliott and John Banta, Inword Press, 1998.
• Better Basics fro the Home: Simple solutions for less toxic living, by Annie Berthold-Bong, Three Rivers Press, 1999
• Home Safe Home: Protecting yourself and your family from everyday toxics and harmful household products, by Debra Lynn Ddadd, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1997.
• Home and Building Central
• H2Ouse.org Learn to be truly water efficient
• General fix-it
  • Home Tips
  • HouseNet
  • ImprovementNet
• Kitchen and Bath
  • Kitchen-Bath
• Interiors, Walls and floors
  • Sierra Home
  • Better Homes and Garden
  • Paint and Decorating Retailers Association
  • DoItYourself.com
  • Lowes: see the Paint Problem Solver
  • Woodfloors.com
• Sound proofing
  • Can you hear me now by Lynn Comeskey in the 2004-07-09 edition of the Palo Alto Weekly
• A.O. Smith (water heaters)
• Insulation Fact Sheet from US Dept of Energy (Oak Ridge National Labs) : includes calculator for R-value by ZIP code.
• I Make Bells Silvio Modena of Half Moon Bay, California
• AstroPower : Solar electric for home
• Stanford Electric Works
• Earthquake Safety: Residential Seismic Retrofits
• Institute for Business and Home Safety: " Taking the Lead in Property Loss Reduction"
• Simpson Strong-Tie Company (Construction fasteners)