Sloan Barnett is the author of the New York Times best-selling book Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet. The book outlines how the next wave of green is about the health of our families in addition to the health of our planet.
Sloan has been a television and print journalist for more than 15 years, appearing as a consumer and green contributor on NBC's Today Show, as well the consumer editor for the NBC affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sloan also has appeared twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show; been a legal and consumer expert for Fox, CNN, and ABC; and hosted women's talk shows for Lifetime and Oxygen.
She began her career as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, N.Y., and went on to write a legal and consumer advice column for the New York Daily News for nearly a decade. She also wrote a legal column for Mirabella Magazine.
Sloan is a member of the board of her alma maters, The New York University School of Law and The Spence School. She also is a trustee of The California Pacific Medical Center and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard School of Public Health.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Roger, who is the CEO of Shaklee Corporation, and their three children.
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"Sloan Barnett has written a thoroughly researched, highly readable handbook for 'cleaning up our act' at home. Follow even a little of her advice, and your children will eat healthier, breathe cleaner air, and learn for themselves how to identify and avoid potentially toxic materials."
— Dr. John Spengler, Akira Yamagouchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard School of Public Health
— Professor Wangari Maathai, Winner of the
2004 Nobel Laureate for the Environment and founder of The Greenbelt Movement
According to Barnett, the Green Editor for KNTV in San Francisco, human beings are saturating their bodies, their children's bodies and their homes with noxious waste, pathogens and carcinogens. Barnett recounts having her blood and urine tested to illustrate how toxins have deeply embedded themselves-her results show positive for bisphenol A (linked to birth defects and reproductive problems) and perchlorate (an active ingredient in rocket fuel found in contaminated food). The book is divided into seven clean-it-up chapters full of solid information and helpful tips aimed at greening different areas of your life, such as how to best filter household water. Barnett's well-written environmental call-to-arms is passionate and authoritative; her findings correlating childhood illnesses with ordinary-and highly toxic-cleaning supplies is alarming. (Sept.)
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Those seeking an easy-to-use handbook with clearly stated actions to take for a greener life will enjoy Barnett’s, which organizes its chapters around various aspects of clean: clean body, food, water, air, and energy. Important points are highlighted for easy browsing, with shaded pages featuring “Five Green-Hot Tips” following every chapter. They urge, for example, some relatively simple actions: “Replace your laundry detergent with a natural nontoxic one; choose organic and locally grown food whenever possible; avoid processed foods; open your windows once a day when the outside air is comfortable; insulate your home and dial down your energy use.” Recipes for greener cleaners and tables comparing eco-friendly products versus mainstream brands are also provided. In Barnett’s closing interviews with “experts”—her two young children—she notes that 1,623 nights have passed since having to rush their little boy to the emergency room with asthma, a convincing bottom line if ever there was one.
— Whitney Scott
