Shelter: A Quest for Non-Toxic Housing

Crocuta writes "Many of the geeks on /. voluntarily confine themselves to their homes for vast stretches of time, but what happens when your home becomes your prison? Eric Hunting suffers from Environmental Illness which perpetually confines him to his home, which even as carefully furnished as it is, is still slowly killing him. His website, Shelter, is both a plea for help and a guide documenting one man's quest for non-toxic housing."

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[Botchka]

Hell to think that I was happy my crayons and paste were non toxic........oh crap! is playdoh?

Um.. MOVE!

[Anonymous Coward]

Steps to finding a non-toxic home:

1. MOVE OUT OF NEW JERSEY

The rest will be much easier once step 1 is complete.

Re:Erm...

[pubjames]

What wood? Plywood (flooring substrate) and press board are all made with really nasty glues.

Well don't use fricking plywood or press board then!

Bricks are made of god knows what in some cases

Bricks are made of clay, baked at very high temperatues. There really isn't much more to it than that.

Mortar has really nasty things in it

Really, like, erm, lime, silica and sand?

Where do you buy your building supplies, for flips sake, Dr. Evil?

I'm alergic to my cube at work

[ReidMaynard]

I break out in apathy every morning.

Re:Erm...

[The_K4]

That's it....i'm gunna go live in a log cabin in montana, grow a beard and mail packages to important people. :) he he he

Re:For those of you....

[Anonymous Coward]

Most MCS suffers tended to succumb to the condition in mid adult-hood and are often female with middle-class backgrounds

*cough* oprah made it up *cough*

Re:for YOU, rot-13 readers!!

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Darwinism?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe this is just mother nature's way of getting rid of this guy?

Re:toxic housing:

[Chelloveck]

Tell me about it! Here is a list of stuff that people actually eat, every day, without realising it!

Don't forget about Dihydrogen Monoxide [dhmo.org]! This is one of the most dangerous chemicals in existence, yet it's used in just about every processed food there is. Stop the madness!

Re:A given cause

[Sargent1]

I apologize that my chosen link bounced off of your tinfoil hat that you wear to protect you from the Man. If you'd like, feel free to visit the web site for Nature magazine [nature.com] and do a search for "systemic candidiasis". They've got quite a few peer-reviewed papers on the disease.