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Overview

Debra Lynn Dadd brings over twenty years of research and real-life experience to her work as a consumer advocate for health and the environment. Hailed as "The Queen of Green" by the New York Times, Debra Lynn Dadd has been a leading consumer advocate for products and lifestyle choices that are better for health and the environment since 1982.

Debra Lynn Dadd brings over twenty years of research and real-life experience to her work as a consumer advocate for health and the environment.

With her books A Consumer Guide for the Chemically-Sensitve (self-published 1982), Nontoxic & Natural (Tarcher, 1984) and The Nontoxic Home (Tarcher 1986), Debra was the first to alert consumers to the toxic chemicals present in everyday household products and reveal both the short- and long-term health effects, as well as safe alternatives. She was the first to catalog nontoxic products, making them easily accessible to everyone.

Debra was also ahead of her time with her concern about the environmental effects of consumer products. She began writing on the subject in 1989 and was ready with her book Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise when consumer interest exploded after Earth Day 1990. This was followed by The Nontoxic Home & Office (Tarcher/Putnam 1992), her guide to choosing green products Sustaining The Earth (William Morrow 1994) and Home Safe Home (Tarcher/Putnam 1997).

Today she is still the leader in her field with a new revised edition of Home Safe Home and Debra's List, her on-line directory of 100s of links to 1000s of nontoxic, natural, and earthwise products.

"If I had to choose one phrase to best describe myself," says Debra Lynn Dadd, "it would be down-to-earth visionary." For over twenty years Debra has been one step ahead of consumer interest in both health and environmental issues, leading the expansion in both these markets with her consumer guidebooks on natural living.

Debra began her career as a writer not because she wanted to write, but because she had something to say that she thought would help others live healthier, happier lives. That motivation still holds true today.

Debra had developed an immune system malfunction known as "environmental illness" or "chemical sensitivity," which caused her body to react negatively to virtually any household product made from petrochemicals. When she realized that not only could this illness be reversed through avoidance of toxic chemicals, but could be entirely prevented, she had to tell the world. She didn't want others to suffer as she had.

• Home Safe Home (Tarcher/Penguin, 2005)
• Home Safe Home (Tarcher/Putnam, 1997) out-of-print
• Sustaining the Earth (William Morrow, 1994) out-of-print
• The Nontoxic Home & Office (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1992) out-of-print
• Nontoxic, Natural & Earthwise (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990) out-of-print
• Foreword to Clean and Green: The Complete Guide to Non-Toxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping by Annie Berthold-Bond (Ceres Press, 1990)
• Contributor to Housing, Essays collected by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution (Rissoli, 1990)
• Consultant to Natural House Book by David Pearson (Simon & Schuster/Gaia Books, 1989)
• Foreword to Healing Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well Being by architect Carol Venolia (Celestial Arts, 1988)
• Healthful Houses with AIA architect Clint Good (Guaranty Press, 1988) out-of-print
• The Nontoxic Home (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1986) out-of-print
• Nontoxic & Natural (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1984) out-of-print
• A Consumer Guide for the Chemically Sensitive (self-published, 1982) out-of-print