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Appreciating The Ecosystem Your Home Provides (And Not Just For You)

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From bacteria to cockroaches to black mold, our houses can be home to some unappealing invaders. The market for pesticides, fungicides and antibacterial cleaning products is enormous.

But for Rob Dunn the household is a whole ecosystem, and many if not most of the non-human life in the house may actually be beneficial to human health. He wrote a book explaining it all, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets and Honeybees: The Natural History of Where We Live

Rob Dunn is an ecologist who says we should think twice before turning our households into sterile environments.  He visits with details of his approach.

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.