The following are selected references and resources reviewed as indicated by Smart Shelter regarding the phenomenon and corrections for Environmental Illness. Several good references have developed in the past 20-30 years on the subject, many containing contradictory or divergent analysis about causality and specific allergens and remedies. The disease itself is so idiosyncratic to the individual and indeed changeable in terms of reactions and issues with any particular individual over time that summarizing the subject itself is nearly impossible. In the final extent, the only relevance of information from any source is its workability and results for you personally and that can only accurately be determined with its trial over a period of at least one or two months. The idea of looking for any one thing which can be proven to cause another thing (linear causality) is probably at best a form of arcane thinking and needs to be replaced with holistic and simultaneous causality .... which is to reason that several things on all different levels of existence have a tendency to be connected with lots of others. By looking for all the things which happen at the same time and doing something about them all simultaneously (the spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, energetic) better results are achieved.

(editing note...time has not allowed effort sufficient to do a comprehensive listing here. Hopefully that will be forthcoming. We publish this now as a beginning. Consult internet searches for this field and texts, which you will find prolific. Review of the other Smart Shelter documents on Environmental Illness including the E.I. Standard will give you summary conclusions from myriad cases and lifestyles)

Numbers appearing in parentheses (ie: (2)) are reference indexes used elsewhere in publications on this website which refer back to and identify sources described below)

(1) Prescriptions for a Healthy House- (Dr. Erica Elliott, MD, Paula Baker Laporte, AIA, John Banta)(now in second edition) ISBN 0-86571-434-7 This is a technical book containing good descriptions of environmental illness including work on the effects of EMF...electro-magnetic field effects. The text is organized to fit the American Institute of Architects construction standards and deals with sources and alternatives for reduced toxin home construction. The text contains explanations of the loopholes the chemical industry has lobbied into effect basically allowing any manufacturer to place any ingredient regardless of toxicity into their products without including them on the ingredients list... including lying about them later. Dr. Elliott is an MD in Santa Fe specializing in environmental illness as a medical practice after herself succumbing to Alpha Two E.I. and finding her medical training useless in diagnosing or treating it. Paula Baker is a New Mexico licensed architect who designed Erica's home and has gone on to produce a text of her own. John Banta is a professional nontoxic home building consultant.

(2) The Nontoxic Home (Debra Lynn Dadd) ISBN 0-87477-401-2 (1986) This book, especially considering its publication date, is descriptive and generally accurate about environmental illness. It is written by an advanced and dedicated E.I. It spends very little time describing Environmental Illness, its causes and symptoms. Instead it cuts straight to the chase in identifying toxic lifestyle products and offers myriad substitutes and corrections. It contains an extensive bibliography and is generally quite well written. There are some minor problems in terms of things which have either become more recognized since its writing or changes in actual product content: for instance, it recommends repeatedly the use of borax...Jean McDonald (E.I. Ridgway, Colo.) finally, after having been told many lies, got one of the chemists at 20 Mule Team Borax to admit that they add chemical pesticides to borax in order to advertise it as an insect infestation deterrent. This deceit is protected by current government disclosure loopholes which allow any manufacturer to exclude from labeling anything they consider to be trade secret or an inert ingredient (see Prescription for a Healthy House for chapter and verse) ... and apparently lie and deny it to poisoned E.I.s later. Is profit worth protecting when it means the death and disablement of the consumer that produces it?

(3) Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (see cumulo nimbus library)

(4)The Sick House Survival Guide- Simple Steps to Healtier Homes

(by Angela Hobbs ) ISBN 086571-485-1 New Society Publishers

(Review by Ruth Matthews/Davis-Oct 06) Resident Intern-EI Land Steward Program/ EMF EI)

 After moving into a newly remodeled home, the auther went from being a normal, healthy woman to one who was so sick she was barely functional. Knowing nothing about environmental illness, this book tells of her search for answers and over-coming her illness. After working her way through the toxic chemicals in the home and having some improvement in her health, she finally finds that electro-magnetic fields are the cause of many remaining symptoms. She then explains, through a series of observations and journal keeping, how you can find and avoid the trouble spots in your own home.

 Her story is probably a familiar one to most E.I.s and although she has some good advice, she also unfortunately, has some serious errors. As an example, without the use of meters to measure the fields, she suggests using an earpiece to avoid the high magnetic fields from cell phones. We know, by use of the meters, that those earpieces are of no use at all and are, in fact, worse than just the phone by itself. She also trys to 'fix' and live with toxic chemicals and fields that would be impossile for many E.I.'s.

This is an interesting story and may be a worthwhile book for those just becoming familiar with environmental illness, but take her advice with caution! A more informed authority and the use of meters will erase the time-consuming 'guessing game' she plays with fields and could save you from many costly mistakes.