This book has a couple good environmentally-friendly tips, but it seems that the author is more interested in fear-mongering household chemicals. If you tried to follow every single "rule" in this book, you would go insane. The book just isn't realistic. It was also written in 2011, so take that into consideration before reading. Many of the issues the author describes have (hopefully) gotten better in the last twelve years, or at least more awareness has been brought to these issues. ( )