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LocalMotion's Resource Library
16824 Kercheval Place, Suite B100, Grosse Pointe, Michigan 48230
Phone: (313) 881-2263


Books, videos, handouts, magazines, and interactive websites await at LocalMotion's resource library. The materials range from easy reading, such as Natural Home and Garden magazine and the tip-filled Safe Shopper's Bible, to technical journals (we boast a complete set of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry toxicology books supplied by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services). A computer is also available, bookmarked with websites where you can learn more about environmental toxins, everyday products, and easy alternatives. A television/VCR is set up for watching past lectures by LocalMotion speakers and for videos such as Not Under My Roof! Protecting Your Baby from Toxins at Home and Organic Land Care, which "Shows you how to transform your property from chemical maintenance to an organic program in one year!"


PRODUCT DISPLAY
There is an entire bookcase filled with examples of non-toxic household and personal products. Free samples of organic cotton personal care products are available. Harmful products that should be avoided are displayed on a separate bookcase. Every school year poisons are directly applied to children's scalps to rid them of lice. Poisons are not necessary. We have free samples of LiceBGone, a non-toxic treatment.


Our SAFE SCHOOLS display includes:

  • LocalMotion's comprehensive IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Resource Guide describes how to implement an IPM program into a Michigan school district, and discusses program costs and benefits.
  • Safer Schools: Achieving A Healthy Learning Environment Through Integrated Pest Management documents school IPM case studies from across the country.
  • Model School IPM policies and resolutions
  • Information on Michigan's current school IPM regulation

    Curricula:

  • Exploring Urban Integrated Pest Management: Activities and Resources for Teaching K-6
  • Pesticide Safety Bingo: Pesticide Safety Games for Grades K-6


    HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT CONNECTION NEWSLETTERS

    Cover articles include:

  • Is That Your Natural Color? (or is it from synthetic products?) Simple techniques to maintain lawns without the use of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.
  • Breathe Easy Learn how to identify effective cleaning agents and indulgent personal care products that contain only healthy ingredients.
  • Green Renovations Projects to renew our homes are perfect opportunities to create a healthier living space. Includes tips for making current furnishings more health friendly.
  • Picnic Perfect What does organic mean? From food to pest protection to plastic containers, tips for packing a perfectly healthy picnic.
  • You're Right to Register Sign up for advance notification of pesticide sprays at your child's school. How Integrated Pest Management reduces the need for pesticides.
  • Organophosphates in Your Garage? Organophosphates are pesticides first used in WWII as lethal nerve gases‹and you may have them in your garage. How to properly dispose of them and what to use in their place.
  • Leads to the Lake What does organic mean? From food to pest protection to plastic containers, tips for packing a perfectly healthy picnic.
  • Healthy Pets Learn ways to create a healthier lifestyle and environment for your pets.


    HELPFUL HAND-OUTS provide information on:

    Household Products:

  • Web Resources for a Healthy Home Environment
  • Lists of Companies that Manufacture Safe Products
  • Painless Steps You Can Take to Reduce Environmental Toxins in Your Life
  • Recipes for non-toxic homemade cleaners
  • American Lung Association¹s Indoor Air Pollution Fact Sheet on Household Products
  • Be Your Own Environmental Protection Agency (BYO EPA)
  • Disposal Guides for Cleaning, Home Improvement, Garden, and Miscellaneous Products
  • Your Home: A Guide to Reducing Environmental Risks through personal choices

    Children's Health:

  • Out of Harm's Way: Preventing Toxic Threats to Child Development
  • Childhood Risk: Toxins Target our Most Vulnerable Citizens
  • EOSHI News: Pesticide Exposure to Children Indoors Greater than Expected
  • Taking Back the Halls, Students in Detroit fight invading armies of roaches and rodents with a healthier‹and more effective‹strategy.
  • Steps Parents and Teachers Can Take to Reduce School Pesticide Use
  • Your Child: A Guide to Reducing Environmental Risks through personal choices

    Lawn and Garden Care:

  • List of Non-Chemical Fertilizers and Local Stores that carry them
  • List of Natural Lawn Care Companies
  • What Are Pesticides‹And Why Should We Be Concerned About Them?
  • New American Yard: Plan Your Home Landscape in Harmony with Nature
  • Healthy Gardens: Kicking the chemical habit
  • Healthy Landscape Problem Solver sheets for pests in the garden
  • Your Lawn: A Guide to Reducing Environmental Risks through personal choices


    REFERENCE BOOKS(unused copies are available for sale or may be ordered)

    • Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Ph.D., Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
    Better Basics for the Home by Annie Berthold-Bond
    Clean & Green by Annie Berthold-Bond
    Home Safe Home, Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household Products by Debra Lynn Dadd
    First Aid Yourself, Essential Breast Cancer Websites by Betsy Dance
    When Smoke Ran Like Water, Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis
    On the Brink, The Great Lakes in the 21st Century by Dave Dempsey
    Faith in Nature, Environmentalism as Religious Quest by Thomas R. Dunlap
    The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist by Gordon K. Durnil
    Handbook of Pediatric Environmental Health by Committee on Environmental Health American Academy of Pediatrics edited by Ruth A. Etzel, M.D., Ph.D.
    Eco-pioneers, Practical Visionaries Solving Today¹s Environmental Problems by Steve Lerner
    Generations at Risk, Reproductive Health and the Environment by Ted Schettler, M.D., Gina Solomon, M.D., Maria Volenti, Annette Huddle
    Having Faith, An Ecologist'sJourney to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
    Safe Shopper's Bible, A Consumer's Guide to Nontoxic Household Products, Cosmetics, and Food by David Steinman and Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
    Household Detective, Protecting Your Children From Toxins at Home by Jan Williams of Children¹s Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC)

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