Planet Thrive

safer home

• Best window materials for MCS?
  Dear Dr. Rea, I am extremely chemically sensitive and it is necessary for me to replace the windows in my home. How do I choose windows that will be the least reactive to me?
• $13.5K in Safe Oasis grants awarded to prevent MCS homelessness
  Housing non-profit re|shelter awarded $13,500 in Safe Oasis housing renovation grants last week.
• re|shelter’s Safe Oasis Grant Program now open
  Housing non-profit re|shelter is now offering (5) small grants up to $2,000 each to eligible individuals whose ability to continue to live safely in their current home has been severely compromised by environmental intolerances.
• Your vote needed – MCSer is a week away from winning $10K
  When one of us with severe chemical and mold sensitivity wins, we all win. Please make the effort to vote for Lou Anne every day this next week and share widely on your social media pages.
• You can be in the movie “Homesick” by Susan Abod!
  Susan Abod needs your help in order to finish her movie Homesick, a documentary about living with chemical sensitivity. She is putting out a call for "safe house" photos to create a collage at the end of the film. Send yours in today to be included!
• Artist Monet Clark on Disability Rap this Friday 12-1pm PST
  Performance artist and severe MCS/CFS survivor Monet Clark will be speaking with radio host and disability rights activist Ana Acton on her radio show "Disability Rap" this Friday from 12-1pm PST.
• Housing non-profit re|shelter’s Holiday 2011 auction underway
  Starting bids have been set at 50% (or more) below retail value. This is a great opportunity to get the Gupta or Hopper brain retraining programs at bargain basement prices!
• Last day to submit donations for re|shelter auction
  Today is the last day to submit your auction donation form for the re|shelter auction to benefit those on the verge of homelessness due to severe environmental intolerances.
• HOMESICK movie in last stages of production
  Santa Fe-based singer Susan Abod needs our help to finish her movie HOMESICK, a powerful new film on environmental illness and the desperate housing situation many with the condition are faced with.
• Re|shelter approved for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
  Having tax-exempt status opens up a world of fundraising opportunities for new safer housing non-profit "re|shelter" in 2011 and beyond.
• Safer housing resources consolidated onto re|shelter website
  The free safer housing listings and resources found on the former MCSsafehomes.com website have been merged into reshelter.org.
• Safer housing checklists now on MCSsafehomes.com
  MCSsafehomes.com has just published several comprehensive checklists to help guide both chemically sensitive househunters and homeowners looking to rent or sell to chemically sensitive clients.
• New from re|shelter: Shelter Angels Network (SAN) beta
  A free blogging service to help those in housing crisis due to disabling environmental intolerances appeal to their personal community for critical fundraising in the absence of other resources.
• Swiss teamwork creates non-toxic apartments
  Fifteen apartments built for people with chemical sensitivities are scheduled to be completed near Zurich, Switzerland in 2013.
• Contaminated safe home – help!
  Dear Dr. Rea, I bought a "safe" house about two years ago and have slept in it off and on. For some reason when I sleep in there recently I have a major hangover in the morning, depression and altered mind.
• Julie Genser and Julie Laffin talk about re|shelter, their new non-profit
  Liz Smentowski and Scott Killingsworth talk to Julie Genser and Julie Laffin, the co-founders of re|shelter, to find out more about the non-profit's origins and future goals.
• New non-profit to address MCS housing crisis
  Re|shelter is a new non-profit organization forming to address the urgent need for housing alternatives for people with environmental intolerances.
• MCS and the Search for a Safe Community
  Mary Rives and Keith Carlson recap their past seven months on the road across America in search of a chemical-free ecovillage to call home.
• Defining home
  We can experience some amount of healing by recreating our vision of home and reestablishing a connection with "home" being a positive thing in our lives.
• non-toxic lifestyle
  Keep your exposure to chemicals, mold, and electromagnetic fields (EMFs) to a minimum in order to maximize your health.
• Hope for MCS/EI housing communities?
  A general contractor/developer from Fargo, North Dakota appeared on Facebook.com last week to announce his interest in tackling the housing crisis of the chemically sensitive.
• A Few Select Safer Condos in Dallas Being Offered for Sale
  As of December 1, 2009, a few select Regina Caeli Environmental Condos in Dallas are being offered for sale at $105,000. Buyers may be eligible for the Homebuyers Tax Credits, available until April 30, 2010.
• How Toxic Is Your Home?
  by Debra Lynn Dadd | We like to think of our homes as being a safe place to be. Yet some of the exposures that you have day-to-day that are most hazardous to your health and the health of your family happen right at home.
• Home Sweet Non-Toxic Home
  Th concept of home is universal, shared among not only the cultures of the world but much of the animal world as well, from nesting birds to burrowing rodents, to sea creatures to snails that are born with a home on their back.