San Francisco :

Home Run

03.17.2009

Submitted by hsnavely on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 3:16pm.
The Bite:
Strike out last time you tried to deep-clean your pad? Might be time for a pinch hitter. SF's Home Green Home is a new worker-owned and worker-operated cooperative of cleaners, who've teamed up with Seventh Generation to dole out nontoxic, chlorine-free gleams. After a 3 hour spree, we could almost see our reflection in the kitchen sink - and no bleach-y, nose-burning chem after-smell. (And conventional cleaning products are responsible for about 10% of toxic-exposure calls to poison control.) Everyone wins too: You get a cleanup for about the same price as conventional services, the housekeepers make a living wage, and toxic chems stay out of our drains and waterways. It's a hit.
Wanna Try: 
Home Green Home, 1500 S. Van Ness Ave. Map It (415-285-5525). Regular cleaning, $140/three-bedroom apt/bimonthly. 
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Cocktail Fact

Baseball slang for a home run includes big fly, blast, bomb, circuit clout, dinger, dong, four-bagger, funk blast, gopher ball, jack, moonshot, shot, swat, and tater.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 SF Biter households halve the amount of toxic chems we use, we'll avert the weight of 33 shortstops in dangerous waste.

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