Great Tips for a Less Toxic Home

Check out this room by room guide to choices you can make in your home starting today. The end result? A healthier home and more eco-friendly life! We love the guide both because of all the fabulous tips and clear advice, but also because it features WWYW founder...

Meet WWYW Ambassador Kathy Browning

Through our Ambassador Program, Wellness Within Your Walls joins forces with like-minded representatives of the retail, design, and building communities with the goal of spreading the WWYW mission further and faster. We’re thrilled to to introduce you to someone very...

Slaying the Flame Retardant Beast

We get lots of questions on the choices we can make as individuals to lower the toxins in our own home. One big choice, previously not even an option, is now possible—buying upholstered furniture that is free of toxic flame retardants. Until recently flame retardants...

Toxic Chemical Reform: The New Law

After many years of discussion with no progress, Congress has finally passed an update to the 40-year-old 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act. After a rare bipartisan vote early last month, the house sent the Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...

A Fresh Approach to Recycling

How cool is this? A 27 year old dutch designer named Dave Hakkens decided that the world needs to recycle more plastic (only 10 percent is currently recycled). So he created simple machines that can be built from materials readily available anywhere, and shares the...

Learning about Lead, with Humor

Check out this clip from Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. Yes he tells us some information we already know about the lead tainted water in Flint, but then he goes into depth to educate us on the larger issue of lead poisoning in the United States. We really love...