{"id":43342,"date":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/05\/14\/livegreen-green-spring-cleaning\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:00:00","slug":"livegreen-green-spring-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/05\/14\/livegreen-green-spring-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"LiveGreen &#8211; &#8216;Green&#8217; spring cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>If you haven&#8217;t gotten around to spring cleaning yet (most likely because it hasn&#8217;t felt like spring) fear not. There&#8217;s a way to clean your house without all the harsh chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips from  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygreen.com\/\">The Daily Green<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/health\/healthy-spaces\/stories\/10-totally-nontoxic-deep-cleaning-recipes\">Mother Nature Network.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A spray bottle filled with a 1:1 mixture of white vinegar and water will clean hard surfaces like countertops, windows, tile and floors.\n<li>Cutting boards can be sanitized with an application of white vinegar or lemon juice left on for 10 minutes before rinsing.\n<li>Lemon peels will deodorize a garbage disposal.\n<li>To clean toilets, flush once and sprinkle baking soda. Then spray with vinegar and let it foam. Scrub with a toilet brush and flush to rinse.\n<li>A thick paste of baking soda, salt and water applied to the floor and walls of your oven and left overnight can be scraped off the next day, taking the baked-on grime with it.\n<li>Club soda will clean stains on fabric and carpet. Apply right away, then blot dry with a clean cloth.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/health\/healthy-spaces\/stories\/10-totally-nontoxic-deep-cleaning-recipes\">Mother Nature Network<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygreen.com\/\">The Daily Green<\/a> also have recipes for economical, non-toxic cleaners using ingredients found in most homes.    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/\">The Environmental Working Group<\/a> provides information about safe commercial cleaning products.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid harsh chemicals as you spruce up for spring and save energy as temps start to climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":39932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-unmc-community","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LiveGreen - &#039;Green&#039; 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