Spring cleaning can be good for your house, but bad for the environment. From chemicals in dish detergent to the fertilizer on your lawn, we'll look at some of the chief culprits and consider environmentally-friendly alternatives for sprucing up your home.
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Environmental Spring Cleaning
Listen Wednesday, Mar. 28, 2007 at 12:06 p.m. in Environment
CD or 
TRANSCRIPT of this program.
Guests
Margaret Palmer
professor and director of the Chesapeake Biological Lab with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
in Solomons, Maryland
Tracy Bowen
Executive Director of the Alice Ferguson Foundation
Keith Tomlinson
Park Manager, Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
Kay Fowler
Executive Director of the Fairfax ReLeaf Organization
Cliff Fairweather
manager naturalist of the Rust Nature Sanctuary, with the Audubon Naturalist Society.
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