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Green Living
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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - A tremendous number of water cleaning and purifying strategies and devices are now available to improve the quality of your home’s water.
- All-cotton refers to stuffing or fabric consisting of 100%-cotton fibers. However, this term doesn’t always mean such items are "all-natural" or "nontoxic".
- Jeff May’s Healthy Home Tips book can help you make sure your home is clean and healthy.
- According to the book, The Nature Principle: “The home nature-restoration market is growing. A Canadian company called Nedlaw Living Walls, Inc., produces indoor "living walls" of ficus, hibiscus, orchids and other plants.
- Cross my heart – there is no such thing as “chemical free” when it comes to cleaning and beauty products.
- There are more than 80,000 "chemical substances" in legal use, and, according to the book - Smart Mama's Green Guide by Jennifer Taggart: "less than 10 percent have been reviewed for toxic effects."
- 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.
- Do smart meters actually lower energy use and cost, and are they safe?
- 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.
- Jennifer Schwab addresses the debate on how much downsizing is ideal and who should take this step.
- 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.
- Sierra Club Green Home.com proposes a new industry standard that balances our longtime desire for lots of space with the current and future need to downsize.
- 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.
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