Green Organic Dry Cleaning

If you are truly chic, than you have some "dry clean only" garments in your closet. If you are truly Green, then you need the skinny on a better way to dry clean. Most traditional Dry Cleaners use harmful Perchloroethylene (Perc). There are greener ways to do dry cleaning and some companies want you spend your greener dollar with them. The most environmentally friendly Wet-Cleaning and GreenEarth technologies can be better for customers and the environment. The State of California has approved using GreenEarth™ Cleaning technology that uses sand (of all things) to clean your clothes. Then there is Carbon dioxide (CO2) cleaning that uses high pressure to make carbon dioxide gas into liquid. This liquid helps biodegradable soaps clean clothes before the pressure turns it back into a gas. It all sounds confusing and it is. Some of these "clean" methods are not as clean as they say. Not only are some of the things that replace Perchloroethylene (Perc) just as bad, but some chemicals are worse. Like Hydrocarbon solvents that are petroleum-based and contribute to greenhouse gases by emitting volatile organic compounds. (VOCs) The only way to be sure is to ask questions, look up facts and make a informed decision. There are lots of other ways dry cleaning can clean up their act, like using recycled hangers and paper instead of plastic whenever possible. What about the trucks driving clothes around? How green are they? The best thing is to find a way to be a green consumer that makes it easy for you. Here are some sites to help.....


http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/garment/gcrg/cleanguide.pdf

http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/ppc/cleaner_near_you.htm

http://www.greencleanerscouncil.com/

Green laundry at home:
http://www.greenworkscleaners.com/laundry/

Street Books - Inner City Hoodlum Donald Goines

Found - Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave across the street from the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Picked up because - The name of the book "Inner City Hoodlum"

This is a short little fiction that is set in the "Cesspool of Los Angeles." This story is about the streets and from the streets. This is the last book from who is concerted one of the first African American writers of urban fiction Donald Goines. Inner City Hoodlum, which Goines had finished before his death, was published posthumously in 1975. Donald did have a hard life on the streets. He Lived and finally died on the streets when he and his wife were shot to death in Detroit one October night. Goines has been a thief, a pimp, drug dealer and an addict. He has lived the life of his characters. He wrote 16 books in just five years, most in jail or the Penitentiary. Some of his books have become films, such as "Never Die Alone" and "Crime Partners" with Ice-T and Snoop Dogg. Many rappers have praised Goines and his writing like RZA, 2Pac, Nas, Ghostface Killah, Ludacris, and Common. This career criminal with seven prison sentences proved he could also be a writer and could give the "real" story from the ghetto. In this book he has a good story of two friends that get pulled deeper and deeper into the "game." A story that runs into some tight spots that make it that much more exciting. To bad this author was gunned down in the streets and the identity of the killer or killers remains unknown.