Here are some links to other sites you might find useful, interesting, entertaining, and relevant. Multiple Chemical Sensitivities , ... And Skin Care , Alternative Energy and the Environment, Helping people and the Planet, Living Consciously, Shopping Consciously, Odds and Ends near and dear to us If you are an U.S. citizen, the most important thing you can do is participate in the process that governs our country and vote your beliefs. If you haven't already, please use this link to REGISTER TO VOTE "We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826) Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: For information relating to Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Environmental Illness, allergies and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, see the following: MCS Referral and Resources for information and sources, including support groups and doctors. MCS Bibliography and Resources, a comprehensive site with a booklist and numerous links and articles. The American Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, The Healthy House Institute for a non-toxic home environment. The AllergyBuyersClub. Not just a store for bedding, air purifiers and such, this site has links to many helpful resources Sweetwater LLC offers Home Water Purification Systems. Ecologist Jim McMahon will review your city's water report with you on the phone, listen to your goals, and provide you with the water treatment system that will meet your needs. Benefect - the safest and most eco-friendly home and commercial cleaning products available! Universal Botanicals delivers Green-Certified Home & Commercial cleaning products that are chemical-free, biodegradable and most importantly, SAFE FOR CHILDREN! Our products are approved for the chemically sensitive, immuno-compromised and those who suffer from asthma and allergies. ... And Skin Care: iNaturalHealth is dedicated to providing their clients the best in acne treatment information. If you have this problem there is a lot of useful information on this site. To top of page Alternative Energy and the Environment: If you are interested in renewable energy power systems this is the source for the best, most current, information: Home Power Magazine. For information about environmental news and happenings check out The Environmental News Network. They have a great news service, interesting quizzes, and much more. Hmmm... this fits here and in the next heading as well: For information about chlorine and organochlorides, the vast variety of everyday products they are used in and how this affects us check out 7th Generations educational page on The facts about Chlorine. Very interesting with links to useful references. More good references: Energy efficient products, homes, and more Find environmental info. for your local community "An Inconvenient Truth" site Idealbite.com - for daily tips on eco-living. To top of page Helping People and the Planet: Donate for free through Care2 by clicking daily to help preserve rain forest, provide mammograms, food to those in need, and many more. Excellent sites through the GreaterGood Network with click to donate are:The Breast Cancer Site; The Hunger Site and The Rainforest Site. These, and others, are supported by advertising clients who pledge to donate for you in turn for having their business listed. Support these fine businesses. An amazing site which offers a wide range of opportunities to help, including volunteering online, is Netaid.org. Aimed particularly at teens, they use the internet to empower people to take action on extreme poverty around the world. Work and donate directly to lessen your impact on the environment: myclimate - The Climate Protection Partnership - is based on voluntary and innovative solutions for climate protection and the promotion of renewable energies & energy efficient technologies. Carbonfund.org - another great organization where you can support climate friendly projects and offset the unavoidable carbon emissions incurred in daily life and work. Trees for the Future, works by planting trees around the world to help soil, air and local economy. Want to help? All the natural disasters of the past few years have long lasting effects. Aid organizations are working harder than ever. Here are a few that help with emergency relief worldwide: Mercy Corps , AmeriCares , and MedAir , as well as Red Cross, OxFam, Doctors without Borders, and all the other more familiar ones. As a contribution to Heifer International, 2% of the price of our 4 oz. bar soaps is donated to help their wonderful holistic effort to end hunger and build self-reliance around the world. To top of page Living Consciously: Here are organizations and stores who conduct business consciously and help make it possible for you to do the same: Co-op America is an organization dedicated to using the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace, to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. The Sundance Channel E - Community is a site/forum devoted to sharing ideas, debating issues, and solving environmental problems. They have everything from BLOGS and green e-mail to a green E-Community map, showing businesses and resources and events around the world. Sustainability Store Directory of socially and environmentally responsible products and services. New Society Publishers focuses on books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society. OmPlace is a searchable Directory of Alternative Web Sites and an Alternative NewsRoom. It has a Conscious Living Directory, Alternative Yellow Pages, Alternative News for Healing Arts, Spirit, Environment, and more. For those changing over to a Vegetarian or Vegan diet, here is an interesting site: Vegetarian Foods - VegetarianStore.com Wide variety of fine vegetarian and vegan products. Delicious soy-based vegetarian meat and milk replacements. VegetarianStore.com carries Loma Linda, Worthington, Cedar Lake, and Natural Touch brands! To top of page Shopping Consciously: Happy Little Squeaker Unique and Natural Baby Products. Bond with your baby naturally with organic, hemp, batik and hand-loomed cotton baby slings. Also try our organic essentials, BabyLegs and diaper caddies. Free Shipping on all orders over $75. Come and check us out! Baby Green Genes Marketplace an online marketplace for green, organic and natural products to take care of your family, home, & garden. Affirm Aware We design everything to help you Feel Good + Do Good! Positive message t-shirts; uplifting and inspirational products; poetry meditation candles, affirmation jewelry; affirmation wear; unique natural/organic products that are sweatshop-free, donations made to NGO's. Taraluna Fair Trade, Organic & Green Gifts and Products Shopping-dir-2008.com - A Shopping Directory Just to make it easier to find things. To top of page Odds and Ends: We live in Humboldt County in rural Northern California. With everything from mountains to seashore to giant Redwoods, it is home to our souls as well as our bodies. To catch some of the community flavor of our area, visit Humguide. Even closer to home, we live near the Humboldt - Trinity county line. The remote corner of both counties, it's actually designated a frontier area due to low population density. To get a taste of this corner of the world visit the Ruth Lake Services District site. See the work fabulous local artist to give you a spectacular visual taste of our corner of Northern California and beyond at: Michael Guerriero's website. Awesome landscapes, extraordinary photographs as art or notecards, by Mendocino county artist, and my brother, Charlie Hochberg Beautiful, long-burning candles to create your own enchanted evenings. Crafted by another rural cottage industry and neighbor. See Guinevere's Candles. See our booth annually on the second weekend in July at the Oregon Country Fair. It's a wild and amazing event with lots of fantastic crafts and great entertainment. Words, words, words... we love words and their origins and wordplay of all sorts. We found this site featured in a Smithsonian article! It is the only daily e-services we continuously subscribe to. Check out: A Word a Day. Interested in handcrafted soaps and bodycare? There are differences in true handmade soaps realhandmadesoap.com focuses on soapmakers who use time-honored traditions and techniques to make their soaps completely from scratch. Simmons Handcrafts / Natural Bodycare belongs to the following organizations: To top of page Shipping Information - see Information page. Questions? Contact us anytime by e-mail: info@simmonsnaturals.com or call 707.777.1920 from 9-5 Pacific Time, Monday through Thursday. Rated a **** store. copyright 2000 - 2008 Return to top of page.