WEB SITES PERTAINING TO HOUSING AND MCS

• HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS, COMMUNITIES AND SHELTERS FOR THE CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE
• PLACES TO LIVE
• TRAILERS AND VANS FOR THE CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE
• DESIGNING, BUILDING AND RENOVATING HOMES FOR THE HYPERSENSITIVE
• ACCOUNTS OF HOMES BUILT BY PEOPLE WITH MCS
• SUSTAINABLE, ALTERNATIVE AND HEALTHIER BUILDING
• TRAVELING WITH MCS
• HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS (non-MCS)
• THE FAIR HOUSING ACT/DISABILITY ISSUES
• MISCELLANEOUS
• LINKS TO OTHER MCS-RELATED SITES
• EMAIL DISCUSSION LISTS

  If you know of other sites appropriate to this list, please email habib@thegarden.net.

  HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS, COMMUNITIES AND SHELTERS FOR THE CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE

  1. Ecology House. An apartment building for low-income chemically sensitive persons. The report covers funding, site selection, an evaluation of building materials, and more.

  http://www.ecologyhouse.org/

  2. Alpha Omega Christian Communities for the Chemically Injured.

  http://members.truepath.com/aocommunities

  3. Safer housing for the chemically sensitive to be built in KY.

  http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/saferhous.htm

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  PLACES TO LIVE

  1. Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas. A book by Robert S. Weinhold that rates all 317 US metro areas in 10 categories of air, water, surface and subsurface pollutants. Ordering info, table of contents, Chapter 1.

  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rweinhold/

  2. Living with MCS in the San Juan Islands, Washington. One person's experience in a liveable place.

  http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/sanjuanwa.html

  3. Chemical Scorecard Polluter Locator. Type in the zipcode to find out what pollutants are being released in an area and who is responsible.

  http://www.scorecard.org

  4. Global Environmental Risk Map

  http://www.mapcruzin.com/global_toxmaps.htm

  5. Healthy Housing Coalition. Area information for New Mexico and Arizona, also safe housing tips and other information.

  http://www.herc.org/hhc

  6. Shared Housing Exchange of the Chemical Injury Information Network. General information on finding safer housing, joining the Shared Housing Exchange (SHoE), and a US pollution map.

  http://ciin.org/housing.htm

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  TRAILERS AND VANS FOR THE CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE

  1. Taylor Design Associates. Renovates and sells trailers and vans .

  http://www.healthy-homes.com

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  DESIGNING, BUILDING AND RENOVATING HOMES FOR THE HYPERSENSITIVE

  1. The Healthy House Institute. John Bower is a builder of healthy homes and has written extensively about the subject. His wife Lynn Bower is chemically sensitive and has also written an excellent book. The site includes full-text articles by the Bowers, a list of books and videos, upcoming projects, links to building-related sites, and updated lists of building suppliers.

  http://www.hhinst.com

  2. Building a healthy home--professional advice, good links and a recommended reading list.

  http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/healthyhome.html

  3. Building Materials for the Chemically Sensitive. Lists suppliers, contractors, and suggested reading.

  http://www.lassentech.com/eibuld.html

  4. CMHC publicaton: Building materials for the chemically sensitive. Info about a 238-page manual available from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

  http://www.greendesign.net/bcnews/julaug96/canada.htm

  5. Housing the canary. Abstract of a masters degree project from the University of Calgary that explores community design and multifamily dwellings for the environmentally sensitive.

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/EV/designresearch/mdp_abstracts/arch/arch96_santini.html

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  ACCOUNTS OF HOMES BUILT BY PEOPLE WITH MCS

  1. All About the Clean House that We Built. Describes the location, floor plan and materials of the Kiessig's new home in Los Altos, CA.

  http://www.kiessig.com

  2. Healthy homes from a CFS and MCS perspective--one person's experience with remodeling her home.

  http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/building.html

  3. THE DISPOSSESSED: Living With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities.. A book by Rhonda Zwillinger. Some of the portraits of people dispossessed by MCS include descriptions of how they built safer homes. Ordering info, sample photos, artist's statement, and many links on pesticides and endocrine disrupters.

  http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/hecweb/links/Dispossessed

  For more selections from The Dispossessed see also http://emagazine.com/september-october_1998/0998feat2.html

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  SUSTAINABLE, ALTERNATIVE AND HEALTHIER BUILDING

  1. Greenbuilder's Sustainable Sources. Contains information on rammed earth and cob houses, earth materials information, a sustainable sources search and much more.

  http://www.greenbuilder.com

  2. Environmental Building News. Includes a green building discussion which is indexed by topic, a sustainalbe building checklist, and more.

  http://www.BuildingGreen.com

  3. Affordable by Design. Building an eco-home on a tight budget is discussed in this article from E Magazine .

  http://www.emagazine.com/july-august_1997/0797feat1.html

  4. Healthy Buildings. Site of the Institute for Research in Construction, it contains a bibliography that includes Canadian, European and US publications.

  http://www.cisti.nrc.ca/irc/library/pf17.html

  5. Everyday Exposures to Toxic Pollutants. Article about common contaminants in the home by Wayne R. Ott and John W. Roberts, published in Scientific American, February 1998.

  http://www.sciam.com/1998/0298issue/0298ott.html

  6. Nirvana Safe Haven. Air and water purifiers, home furnishings and supplies for the chemically sensitive.

  http://www.nontoxic.com

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  TRAVELING WITH MCS

  1. The Safer Travel Directory.

  http://mcstravel.resourcez.com

  2. The Natural Place. Environmentally friendly hotel apartments in Deerfield Beach, FL.

  http://www.thenaturalplace.com

  3. Las Nubes, a resort near Santa Fe, NM that describes itself as a "haven for the chemically sensitive"

  http://www.ecoretreat.com

  4. Pride and Joy Environmental Resort, South Melbourne Beach, FL

  http://www.pridejoyresort.com/index.html

  5. Travel tips for the chemically sensitive

  http://wwws.us.ohio-state.edu/~steen/allergy/travel.html

  6. Eco-House, a beach resort at Vero Beach, FL

  http://www.chem-tox.com/ecohouse/index.htm

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  HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS (non-MCS)

  1. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

  http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

  2. Habitat for Humanity. Includes a locator for Habitat affiliates by state.

  http://www.habitat.org

  3. Intentional Communities Directory. A directory of cohousing, ecovillages and coops that briefly discusses environmental illness.

  http://www.ic.org/

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  THE FAIR HOUSING ACT /DISABILITY ISSUES

  1. The Southern Oregon Fair Housing Project. Contains information on local, state and federal housing anti-discrimination laws, as well as a HUD Online Housing Discrimination Complaint Form.

  http://www.efn.org/~fairhous/

  2. Alpha One, a Center for Independent Living. Has an online brochure on housing considerations for the disabled that includes environmental illness; also info on housing rights of the disabled.

  http://www.alpha-one.org/housing.htm

  http://www.alpha-one.org/rights.htm

  3. National Fair Housing Advocate Online. Contains a newsletter, case databases, discussion forum, and a list of resources in every state.

  http://www.fairhousing.com

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  MISCELLANEOUS

  1. Children's Environmental Health Network

  http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/safehousing.html

  2. Article: Coastside is clean slate for woman, chemical injury hinders search for housing. From Half Moon Bay Review, Nov 6, 1996.

  http://www.montara.com/HMBReview/Features/96.11.06.feat.chemical

  3. Electrical Hypersensitivity.

  http://www.idcnet.com/~jschultz/es.htm

  4. Environmental Justice Information Page.

  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrajzer/nre/index.html

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  LINKS TO OTHER MCS-RELATED SITES

  MCSRelief.com

  Chemical Injury Information Network. The newsletter Our Toxic Times, printed monthly, contains ads for safer housing.
  http://ciin.org

  Chemical Sensitivity Disorders Association (CSDA)

  http://www.chemsense.com

  Colorado Health Net

  http://www.coloradohealthnet.org

  Environmental Health Center-Dallas

  http://www.cathey.com/ehcd.html

  Environmental Health Network

  http://users.lanminds.com/~wilworks/ehnindex.htm

  Environmental Illness Links

  http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/envir.html

  Fragranced Products Information Network

  http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/fpin.htm

  Health and Environment Resource Center. Lots of info and links about MCS. The Newsstand had copies of articles about MCS.

  http://www.herc.org

  http://www.herc.org/news/home.htm

  Human Ecology Action League. The Human Ecologist, printed quarterly, contains ads for safer housing.

  http://members.aol.com/HEALNatnl/

  IMMUNE (Cyndi Norman) Some housing ads can be found in the classified section on this site.

  http://www.immuneweb.org

  MCS/EI Jacki Barineau's home page.

  http://www.ourlittleplace.com/mcs.html

  MCS Homepage

  http://www.nettally.com/prusty/mcs.htm

  MCS International Directory

  http://www.w3-mediator.de/mcs/index.htm

  MCS Louisville. Melva Gail Smith's home pages

  http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/

  http://members.tripod.com/~chemicalsensitivity/chemicalsensitivityindex.html

  MCS Referral and Resources

  http://www.mcsrr.org

  MCSurvivors Updated site.

  http://www.MCSurvivors.com

  Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Primer

  http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/4415/index.html

  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Forum

  http://www.dejanews.com/~mcs/j.xp?j=mcs

  National Coalition for the Chemically Injured

  http://www.ncchem.com/ncci.htm

  North Carolina Chemical Injury Network

  http://www.ncchem.com

  Nova Scotia's Environmental Illness Online Newsletter

  http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/4357

  Pesticide Action Network North America

  http://www.igc.org/panna/index.html

  Resources for the Chemically Sensitive or Environmentally Ill

  http://www.snowcrest.net/lassen/mcsei.html

  Right-to-Know Network

  http://www.rtk.net

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EMAIL DISCUSSION LISTS

Chemical-Illnet

http://www.herc.org/together/home.htm#news

Immune Lists

http://www.immuneweb.org/lists

MCS-CI

http://www.immuneweb.org/mcsci.html

with the message SUBSCRIBE MCS-CI

Washington State Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Network (WSMCSN)

Send email to wsmcsn-subscribe@egroups.com Leave the text blank but put wsmcsn-subcribe in Subject field.

Healthy Habitats Discussion List

http://www.onelist.com/community/HealthyHabitats

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