HEALTHY HOME DESIGN

This Book was motivated when a good friend of ours who died from '20th Century Syndrome'. This disease results from overexposure to the chemicals that we have invented in this century to 'improve' our lifestyles. Architects and developers have much to answer for the environments where people live and work  since the second World War. To help redress this situation The Healthy House was written. See whether you like it....

The Healthy House is a fascinating guide into healthy home design and practises. Healthy House will help you create safe, environmental homes or transform your existing place into a healthy home for you and your family.

THE HEALTHY HOUSE:
Creating safe, healthy and environmental homes
Dr Sydney & Joan Baggs

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Book Reviews
Australian Complementary Health Association - April 1997
THE HEALTHY HOUSE by Sydney & Joan Baggs,
Harpers Collins Publishers, Sydney1996, 256 pages. RRP $39,95

Subtitled 'the Gaian approach to creating, healthy and environmentally friendly home', this glossy large format book is one of those bookshelf or coffee table items that one keeps coming back to for another dose of information and inspiration. The book is a timely response to increasing concern people have for the health effects of the buildings in which they live and work. Witness the prevalence of smoke free buildings, the popularity of broad spectrum or high efficiency lighting and the almost incongruous appearance of feng shui columns in the popular 'women's magazines'.

The huge amount of well researched information in the Healthy House is always presented from the big picture, contextual level, down to (often minute) nut sand bolts detail. Where necessary, relevant theory-such as the Gaia hypothesis, for example-is explained first so that the subsequent facts or suggestions are easily understood in the overall scheme of things. To quote from the preface, 'The ideas outlined here will help you integrate more fully with all life on the planet, surely the aim of all thoughtful human beings.' The authors certainly demonstrate that integrative approach in their clear and concise writing style.

It has been said that we need to first put our own house in order before we can solve the world's problems. This wonderful book provides a remarkable synthesis of many approaches, Eastern and Western, scientific and esoteric, that assist the reader to create that order.
Reviewed by Chris Morris.

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