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Resource Center
Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 11:00am - 5:00pm
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Books, videos, handouts, magazines, and interactive websites await at LocalMotionGreen's Resource Center Library.

The materials range from easy reading, such as Natural Home and Organic Gardening magazines and the tip-filled Safe Shopper's Bible, to technical journals.

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 LocalMotionGreen 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!"

LMG Apple
2 Great New Online Resources:
Healthy Living Library
Healthy Living Dictionary


Product Displays

There are entire bookcases 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.

Safe Schools Display - Our displays include:

  • LocalMotionGreen'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.

Publications currently available in the Resource Center Library include

  • Health & Environment Connection Newsletters

  • Helpful Hand Outs - providing information on:

    • Household and Bath/Body Products
    • Children's Health
    • Lawn and Garden Care

  • Reference Books - unused copies are available for sale or may be ordered.

    • How to…Cleaning, Home, Personal
    • Gardening
    • Classics
    • We boast a complete set of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry toxicology books supplied by the U. S. Dept of Health and Human Services.

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