Marie and I just want to spend a moment and wish you a very happy holiday season. We have such a great

time sharing all the wonderful things we have

learned about living a cleaner –greener lifestyle and we thank you for coming along with us on our journey. Thanks for all your support.

Leslie and Marie

A NOTE FROM LESLIE AND MARIE

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The Happier Camper was born from a vintage ultra-light travel trailer rental business. From there, Derik the owner, started buying and restoring more vintage fiberglass trailers. About three years ago he realized that if they were to grow the business they would have to build their own campers by taking inspiration from the vintage trailers and input from their rental customers. His goal was to build something that is both nostalgic yet modern. The HC1 Happier Camper is packed full of modern conveniences and sensibilities. Derik and his design team used input from his customers about their rental experiences to help them design the perfect new ultralight camper. Comments from customers such as: "I love the vintage camper, but the bed is too short", resulted in them designing and building a wider bed. By expanding the wheel fenders while keeping it within legal small car width limits, they in-creased the floor space and wheel base which added more stability. Another comment from a rental customer was: "the door is too small for my bike" so they made the side door wider. They also installed a large rear hatch on the trailer that opens up the interior

so you are able to haul larger items, like a motorbike or a jet ski. The rear hatch also creates extra space that can be used as an added room. The biggest concept is that they de-signed the Adaptiv™ modular interior. This allows the trailer to be used 100's of ways. It is extremely easy to change the interior based on individual needs. The versatility of the camper creates a huge value that every customer appre-ciates immediately. Young families, older couples, and weekend concert warriors are their primary customers. Derik and his team are helping city folks who want to be outdoors with nature, but don't like the idea of big RVs or tent camping. Their trailers are ultra-light and can be easily pulled by most small cars. They are easy to maneuver and are incredi-bly comfortable for their size. The HC1 is incredibly efficient while being solar powered and modern. These trailers will become the norm especially with the emergence of electric and

autonomous vehicles. These ultra-light campers will be the standard of portable living spaces. The HC1s are available! They are currently but have a waiting list, The base HC1 starts at 15,950 and goes up based on configurations and accessories.

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Having good air quality in our personal

environments is important since we spend 80%

of our lives indoors. We spend several hours at

home, but what are we bringing in from outside

to contaminate our space? What products are

we using that contribute to poor air quality?

Does our home harbor hidden sources of chem-

ical pollution? Children and people

with asthma, allergies, and chemical sensitivi-

ties may be especially sensitive to indoor pollu-

tants, but other effects on health could appear

years later, after repeated exposure.

Many steps can be taken to minimize contact to

harmful chemicals, such as removing sources of

contamination, using safer building materials,

and replacing products with safer and greener

alternatives. If you have chemical sensitives,

allergies, or asthma, this can be especially chal-

lenging as those steps alone might not be

enough.

EnviroKlenz® is a new line of personal environ-

ment products for eliminating sensitivity trig-

gers that was specially designed and inspired by

What products are you

using that contribute to

poor air quality?

Having good air quality in our personal environments is important since we spend ≈80% of

our lives indoors. We spend several hours at home, but what are we bringing in from outside

to contaminate our space? What products are we using that contribute to poor air quality?

Does our home harbor hidden sources of chemical pollution? Children and people

with asthma, allergies, and chemical sensitivities may be especially sensitive to indoor pollu-

tants, but other effects on health could appear years later, after repeated exposure.

Many steps can be taken to minimize contact to harmful chemicals, such as removing sources

of contamination, using safer building materials, and replacing products with safer and green-

er alternatives. If you have chemical sensitives, allergies, or asthma, this can be especially

challenging as those steps alone might not be enough.

EnviroKlenz® is a new line of personal environment products for eliminating sensitivity trig-

gers that was specially designed and inspired by the most sensitive individuals who are deal-

ing with chemical sensitives, allergies, and asthma. The system targets triggers in the air and

on surfaces within a personal space. All the products use natural earth minerals that have

gone through a patented process to convert them into an active form making them especially

good at adsorptive neutralization, while re-

maining safe for everyone to use.

EnviroKlenz is able to effectively minimize

triggers for individuals afflicted with multi-

ple chemical sensitivity because it works

through multiple pathways against a range

of chemistries while, at the same time, en-

suring there are no new chemical triggers

brought in. These products include a mo-

bile air system that captures and neutraliz-

es a variety of airborne triggers, surface

treatments that can be applied to various

sources of contamination, and a laundry

enhancer for use on the items we wear and

are daily exposed to everything we encoun-

ter. Learn more at www.enviroklenz.com

by Amanda Sullivan, founder of the perfect daughter: chaos control

I throw out stuff - a lot of stuff - for a living. That’s the job, and I love my job. But sometimes the garbage gets me down. My husband can tell you that while I was always concerned about the environment, I’ve gotten worse - or better, depending on your perspective. But in the end, a lot of my “eco-consciousness” has as much to do with space as it does with the environment.

Consider the lowly water bottle. We all know how important it is to drink water, and now it is de rigueur for people to stock cases of Poland Spring or Fiji water in their homes. Not me. I have a small kitchen and limited storage capacity. I have five people in my family, so we have five water bottles. Period. Sometime they are in the fridge, sometimes the cabinet, but they use a mere fraction of the space that a case of water would. Better for the earth, better for my budget, way better for my cabinet space.

A lot of people save too many shopping bags. They say, “ Well, the little Papyrus bag is good if I take my lunch.” I own three lunch bags. (My older son thinks he’s too cool to take lunch and my husband manages a restaurant, so they don’t need lunch bags.) Three lunch bags take about as much room as a couple dishtowels.

I rarely take a bag from a store because I have two nifty nylon shopping bags in my purse at all times. If I do need a shopping bag, it doesn’t linger long, because I use them to get rid of hand-me downs, which I do fre-quently.

I also really loathe disposable plates, cups and cutlery. First, it just so much nicer to eat off of china and drink out of glass, also, the packaging of paper plates and cups make them particularly annoying to store efficiently. We use cloth napkins and real glasses and it is no big deal, especially now that I have a dishwasher. If I do buy paper plates (for an outdoor birthday party, for example), I try to make them a solid color so that if any are left over, they can be used for a big holiday party or a picnic in the park. It’s always so frustrating when a client is trying to save five princess plates, three Mickey Mouse plates (the ears don’t stack!) and four rectangular fire-truck plates. Recycle them and next year tell your child they can choose solid red or solid blue.

Everyone is looking for ways to make life easier. I understand. But does unloading the dishwasher really take longer than your trip to the recycling bin or garbage chute with your paper plates? Consider instead the time and space spent managing where to store the odd leftover plates, the stash of unruly shopping bags of different sizes and other detritus of disposable convenience. So save yourself and save the earth. Buy one lunch bag, one shopping bag and a water bottle and see what time and space you can open up.

Amanda Sullivan is a Professional Organizer, Founder of The Perfect Daughter, and a media expert on organization. Amanda has been creating order out of chaos since the seventh grade, when she tackled lockers and desks before dreaded inspections at her private school. After college, she segued from working for a temp agency to organizing the temp agency. In 1999, she went into the organizing business full time, founding The Perfect Daugh-ter: Chaos Control. She has since helped more than 200 clients, from hoarders to celebrities. Amanda has appeared on Good Morning America and Living it Up with Ali and Jack with Jack Ford and Ali Wentworth Stephanopoulos. Her advice has appeared in national print maga-zines such as Woman’s Day and Fit Pregnancy, as well as on popular Web sites such as Next Avenue and About.com.

the eco-organizers top-5 Make sure every member of your

family has 1 reusable water bottle

Don’t take bags in stores, bring your own

Switch to reusable lunch containers and bags

Only buy paper-party supplies that can be used for other events

Weed and recycle old BPA-freebie water bottles and plastic cups

Shopping for a frig

Greening of America medicin

Health Promotion at Arizona State University, is concerned about the rising number of people at risk for

developing Type 2 diabetes—an astounding 50% of adults, according to some studies.

“There are medicines that work fairly well for the pre-diabetic state and for early diabetes, but many peo-

ple do not want to get on these drugs,” she remarked in an interview with Dr. John Westerdahl on his ra-

dio program, Health & Longevity. They want a natural remedy instead because traditional medication is

costly and has side effects.

Years earlier, Dr. Johnston read about a study that showed a relationship between apple cider vinegar and

lower blood glucose levels. With so little published on vinegar as an anti-glycemic agent, she began re-

searching the topic herself.

“We recruited individuals with elevated fasting glucose levels, but not at the level of being diabetic,” Dr.

Johnston told of the study. For the 12-week study, the only change was that half of the subjects consumed

a tablespoon of organic ACV before lunch and dinner. (Dr. Johnston used Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vine-

gar drink—which is tasty and contains the required one tablespoon of ACV per cup.) The other half of the

subjects were put on ACV pills. These pills contained acetic acid (40mg) but not enough to change blood

glucose levels, so they were a perfect placebo. Both groups recorded blood glucose levels.

The results were exciting—the effect on fasting glucose was immediate. Those who drank ACV showed

about a 14% drop in fasting glucose levels, an effect that was maintained throughout the twelve-week test.

Those taking the vinegar pills, showed only a 4% drop.

Adds Dr. Johnston, “When you look at studies where the pharmaceutical drug is used for 12 weeks in a

high risk population and compare the results with apple cider vinegar use, you see very similar reductions

in the fasting glucose.”

Dr. Johnston is careful to point out that this study was on pre-diabetics, not on diabetics taking insulin. She

also stresses the importance of exercise and diet in early diabetes.

She cautions against taking concentrated acetic acid like vinegar pills and adds that liquid apple cider vine-

gar should be mixed with eight ounces of water before drinking it. (If desired, add honey or stevia for

sweetness.)

Dr. John Westerdahl is a registered dietitian

nutritionist and a board-certified Anti-aging

Health Practitioner. He is Director of the

Bragg Health Institute and Director of Health

Science for Bragg Live Food Products.

To learn more about organic apple

cider vinegar and it’s benefits, listen

to Leslie’s interview with Patricia

Bragg, the owner and CEO of Bragg

Live Food Products. Patricia spent an

hour talking about her past as well as

the wonderful benefits of apple cider

vinegar. Listen to this podcast and

more on Clean Green Talk.

Environmental Illness is a condition that is initiated most of-

ten from

over exposure to chemicals or mold toxins in the home or at

work. Once over exposed, the body can’t tolerate any chemi-

cals and becomes chemically intolerant. If you are wearing

perfume and using scented laundry productsthen you might

not notice you are sensitive to anything. Try removing all

scents from your environment.

In four days you might notice you have developed sensitivities

to some or many scents. This process is called 'unmasking'.

Dr. Nagy’s Personal Story

“I used to wear a ton of perfume and use lots of fabric sof-

tener

without realizing this was hiding my Chemical Sensitivi-

ty. Now as I look back 14 years later -- I have a great story of

recovery. My moldy aquarium shed poisoned my home and

almost killed the dogs and myself and my husband,

Wes. We all got adrenal failure and neurologic disease

from the mycotoxin exposure. I was told I had early Lou

Gehrig's and my husband had symptoms

of Parkinsonism -- I knew I was dying but was so confused

about how to save myself -- and I am a doctor! How

could a lay person figure out the cause of their illness- they

usually cannot - and succumb! It is a tragedy the people

who come to me now for help with their many issues. They

want to become healthy – like me.

I never heard of Environmental Illness in Medical School.

Nor was I never taught that indoor mold growth is ex-

tremely dangerous to human’s neuroendocrine systems. I

now teach what I have learned at the NIH and the EPA and

at medical meetings. I joined the board of The American

Academy of Environmental

Medicine and received a lot of interest from the American

Medical Women's Association where they immediately

started up a new Environmental Health Committee!”

“What I have learned by becoming a patient with a condition that is not acknowledged in traditional

medicine is that a holistic way of thinking about the body should applied to all chronic diseases. Doctors

need to learn to take a patient’s

Environmental History and look for adrenal and other hormone and nutritional deficiencies. They need to

do a better job of investigating why their patients are sick. Traditionally patients get a quick prescription af-

ter a short visit. Patients need to change the way they think when going to visit the doctor. They need to un-

derstand that their symptoms are a result of some type of imbalance in their bodies. Patients need to make

their doctors do the hard work of investigating these clues that can lead to real

cure versus just treating the symptoms. There are ways you can help make chang-

es in our medical system. Think of a place you can get involved, people you can

contact in the media, congress or celebrities you could contact to sway public

opinion.”

Everyone is somewhere on the spectrum from 1 to 10 of being affected by our

environment. No one is a zero. Never give up when you become ill. Be your own

advocate and look for an Environmental or Integrative Medicine

practitioner that can help you find the causes of your environmental sensitivities.

Dr Lisa Nagy can be found at wwwlisanagy.com or on YouTube under Lisa Nagy M. D.

Cleanse

The two things most lacking in the American diet are good, healthy fiber and good, healthy green foods. This cleanse has both. Quite simply, it is made up of the good, healthy food that most peo-ple lack in their normal, everyday diet.

The nutrients will feed your body as well as help flush and pull toxins and acids out of the cells. The fiber will absorb these tox-ins and expand like a sponge. You will then drink a lot of water, which will create a cleaning effect. Along with the sponge-like fiber, the toxic particles, plaque, and other debris that might be lodged in the intestines will be dragged out. Each time you cleanse, it will clean out a little more.

This cleanse is done morning, noon, and night (3 times a day). You may eventually find this is a good part of your daily or weekly routine.

You can buy the ingredients at most health food stores or grocery stores. It calls for raw organic green food powder. But, when possible, use fresh, organic green barley grass or wheat grass juice instead of the powder. Fresh is always best, but the concentrated, powdered form makes this cleanse easy to use anytime. If you have trouble drinking green, powdery, high-fiber drinks, buy the green food powder in capsule form.

This cleanse also calls for psyllium husks. They expand very quickly when put into water and will turn into a thick clump you cannot drink. So, either take psyllium husks in capsule form or drink them quickly once you add water to them. The psyllium husks will then expand in your stomach. They are a great fiber which makes you feel full as it works like a sponge to clean out your organs on its way through. By absorbing toxins, the fiber is able to pull them, as well as waste, from your body.

Think of the layers of an onion. When you start, you will get through one layer, and the next time, you will through the next layer.

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Ingredients: concentrated raw organic green food powder (or capsules or fresh organic barley grass or

wheatgrass juice)

organic psyllium husks

Directions: For one to three full days, three or four times a day, starting first thing in the morning, drink an eight-ounce glass of mineral-rich, high quality water:

2-3 tsp. concentrated raw organic green food powder (or 8–10 capsules)

1 tsp. organic psyllium husks (2 capsules) If you are using freshly juiced greens, drink 6–8 ounces of the juice with the psyllium husks.

Throughout the day, drink a couple of liters (one ounce of water for every two pounds of your body weight) of mineral-rich water throughout the day.

For more information go to www.organichealthylifestyle.com or purchase Nancy’s best selling book: “How To Be A Healthy Vege-tarian – Second Edition) at Amazon. Nancy has great recipes, re-sources, and cutting edge easy to understand health information

in her books.

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Disposal pods

Recently, the US Department of Labor published updates to fed-

eral classifications explaining the definition of employees vs. in-

dependent contractors. The next day, one key player in the new

“gig economy”, bows out.

HomeJoy, a click-to-consume app-driven company that pairs

house cleaning providers with consumers in need, conceded its

bid to revolutionize the home services industry in a press release

issued July 17, 2015, saying the outfit will shutter operations ef-

fective July 31. The quick exit is seen by cleaning industry insid-

ers as a harbinger of backlash against companies that outsource

home services to contract laborers. These companies sub-

contract their work, usually to individuals, in an effort to control

expenses and maximize shareholder earnings. The problem is

this model thrives at the expense of the worker and the

consumer.

When Injury Occurs

HomeJoy and other companies using contract labor are

able to avoid many large expenses required of compa-

nies with true employees on the payroll, most notably

worker’s comp insurance. It is assumed that the contrac-

tor maintains his or her own policies, however, in reality

many contract workers forego such a major expense,

instead gambling against the odds of injury on the job.

“In the unfortunate event that injury does occur, contract

cleaning workers may seek (and get) medical reimburse-

ment from the owners of the home they were cleaning

when the injury took place,” warns Bart Puett, President

of Maid Brigade.

Tax Liability

Homeowners may also be liable for Social Security,

Medicare, and unemployment taxes and penalties for

the contract workers who do not make accurate and

timely payments to the IRS each quarter themselves.

Since the contract worker is not employed by the house-

cleaning company that dispatched them, the IRS may

deem that the homeowner is the employer of that

cleaner and therefore, responsible for these taxes .

The risk of finding a surprise tax bill in the mailbox is

slim for most consumers who have cleaning help but the

fees and penalties can be costly, not to mention the pro-

fessional and social stigma that accompanies real or

perceived tax evasion.

Don’t Get Taken to the Cleaners

Ernie Hartong, CEO of the Association for Residential

Cleaning Services International (ARCSI), advises home-

owners seeking help with house cleaning to do their

homework. “Homeowners should do their due diligence

before hiring a house cleaner or professional cleaning

service. To avoid the pitfalls that can occur when some-

one is working in your home, ask to see a copy of the

company’s business license and insurance policy before

hiring,” cautions Hartong. “A professional company

should gladly provide these to any consumer who asks.”