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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Learn what combustion byproducts, natural draft, and home air-pressure have to do with a backdrafting chimney and your health.
- Find out why styrofoam is one of the biggest menaces to the environment.
- You can lower the levels and impact of noise pollution in your home in surprising ways; for example, start with your exhaust ventilation fans.
- We get a lot of questions about what we call “simplistic solutions to complex situations.” For example, most people want an easy way to solve the problem of poor indoor air quality. Well, we’d like that too and, in some cases, there are relatively simple solutions. But in many cases, the solution isn’t easy.
- Focusing on more than traditional ways to remove VOCs and allergens in the air can lead to better prevention and treatment of allergies and asthma.
- Biomimicry is the “study and imitation of nature’s remarkably efficient designs, bringing together scientists, engineers, architects and innovators who can use those models to create sustainable technologies”.
Recent innovations demonstrate ways that biomimicry is helping to make homes healthier.
- While plywood and other manufactured wood products have long been a source of formaldehyde in our indoor environments, now formaldehyde-free plywood is available.
- There is a growing body of evidence that poor indoor air quality and other indoor pollutants are negatively affecting us all. Yet it is still difficult to define precisely what makes some materials unhealthy.
- It is sad when people decide not to incorporate healthy features into their home project because of cost.
- The varied effects may be due to one general cause - the effect of exposure to low levels of chemicals in the home, at the workplace, and in food.
- The simple, yet informative guide to discovering the common health dangers in your home and what to do about them.
- Improving and cleaning your air is an often forgotten task of spring cleaning.
- It’s ironic that some products designed to make our homes cleaner and healthier may contribute to asthma.
- While they may not have asthma, allergies, or chemical sensitivities, they may have other life-draining health complaints related to unhealthy homes.
- Sometimes people with asthma, allergies or sensitivities just can't seem to find relief. Why don't air cleaners help these people?
- While it is difficult to determine the dollar cost of poor indoor air quality (IAQ), insurance-industry observers agree that the costs may be unrecognized—and ascribed instead to more conventional medical conditions such as respiratory ailments, allergies, and asthma. One report on insurance costs found that “there is strong awareness and growing concern over the ‘silent crisis’ of IAQ and its potential to cause large industry losses.”
- Simran Sethi, green pioneer, media personality and Oprah.com columnist presented a free one-hour webinar, "Ten Steps to a Healthier Home" for The Healthy House Institute (HHI) on September 30th, 2010 at 10am CDT. The archived event is also free to access.
- Some ERVs can recover formaldehyde in the same way that they recover water.
- When you consider the number of hours spent indoors, it only makes sense to build a healthy house, or convert your existing home into a healthy rather than an unhealthy one.
- Two trends to counter for healthier homes.
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