{"id":4000,"date":"2022-09-09T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2022-09-08T20:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T00:00:50","slug":"homes-that-heal-and-those-that-dont-b2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=4000","title":{"rendered":"Homes That Heal, and Those That Don&#8217;t (B2C)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are books that have marked a radical change in my understanding, and therefore in my career approaches, even my approaches to life, the universe, and everything (Thanks, Doug Adams, for that one).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/B2C-thumb-Homes-that-Heal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4001 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/B2C-thumb-Homes-that-Heal-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/B2C-thumb-Homes-that-Heal-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/B2C-thumb-Homes-that-Heal-1024x843.png 1024w, https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/B2C-thumb-Homes-that-Heal-768x633.png 768w, https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/B2C-thumb-Homes-that-Heal.png 1423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the non-fictions realm, I would say that so far, &#8220;Drawdown&#8221;, &#8220;Unlearning&#8221;, and &#8220;Humankind, a Hopeful History&#8221; are waaaay up there, alongside this book by Athena Thompson, &#8220;Homes That Heal: and Those That Don&#8217;t&#8221;. Impactful because they each reframed my relationship to my work and my world.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Drawdown<\/strong> &#8211; we are a part of the solutions, every day, if we choose wisely<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unlearning<\/strong> &#8211; we need to deliberately make room for new information, else we clog up!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Humankind<\/strong> &#8211; People are good, and we need to stop building systems that treat them as bad, because then they act badly!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Homes That Heal<\/strong> &#8211; a book that tells beautiful little understandable vignettes to help us learn that we are foolishly surrounding ourselves with toxins: inhaling them, bathing in them, and building with them&#8230;and we don&#8217;t have to do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why heal the sick when you can actually prevent illness at the start? Why would you paint a baby&#8217;s room with toxic paints and put them on a fire-retardant treated petroleum derived mattress with a cover washed in neurotoxins labelled as fragrances? Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because no one told you that this is what we are choosing to do every day.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching. Please like, comment and subscribe subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCoLrmdksGl9RTvAyYs6hqjQ\">YouTube channel <\/a>so we can expand this network of connection. Let&#8217;s not only be subject2change, but willing to explore and set our course!<\/p>\n<p>Watch the review on the <strong>Books2Change<\/strong> Playlist, read the book if you have an interest, and share some comments on our YT site!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/0CFE62FB-D48E-4BFB-BAD2-5B06EFA37EEA_1_201_a-scaled.jpeg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jodi and Lauren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are books that have marked a radical change in my understanding, and therefore in my career approaches, even my approaches to life, the universe, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[128,188,10,16,278,147,3,4,318],"tags":[253,412,415,433,104,36,434,435,436,250,20,351],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-book-review","category-critical-commentary","category-health","category-how-did-we-get-here","category-is-it-sustainable","category-recycling","category-products","category-subject2change","tag-air-quality","tag-book","tag-book-review","tag-cleaning","tag-design","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-houses","tag-interiors","tag-materials","tag-residential","tag-toxins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/8-10-20-Subject-2-Change-Podcast-Logo-FINAL-e1615755722442.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40KlT-12w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2987,"url":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=2987","url_meta":{"origin":4000,"position":0},"title":"Materials Matter (S2C E29)","author":"greenerjsa","date":"August 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I read an incredible book about 16 years ago (or so) titled \"Homes that Heal; and Those that Don't\" by Athena Thompson. 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