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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided recommendations to help minimize the potential for foodborne illnesses due to power outages and other problems associated with severe weather events.
- Most dry-cleaning chemicals pose health hazards and are often intolerable to the chemically sensitive and to some allergic and asthmatic people.
- Asthma is a rapidly growing public health problem. Here are recent facts from the CDC and EPA.
- How does radiant heat, as opposed to air temperature, contribute to a proper
home comfort system?
- Designing healthy homes for the elderly.
- Our children may be exposed to pesticides from residues found in their food. Here are ways you can reduce the risk of pesticide residues in your child’s diet.
- The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has developed the first Asthma Friendly product standards for plush toys, pillows, bedding, flooring, vacuum cleaners, and air purifiers.
- While many people enjoy wearing perfumes and using scented products, there is a growing outcry from some people who claim exposure to certain fragrances, including perfumes and scented products, adversely impacts their health.
- Chemicals not listed on product labels due to weak regulatory standards.
- Most of us will have to go into the hospital some day. Here are specific steps you can follow to protect yourself from hospital infections.
- LEED for Homes is a green home certification system for assuring homes are designed and built to be energy- and resource-efficient and healthy for occupants.
- Are you sensitive to low levels of pollutants in the indoor environment? There are many people exhibiting symptoms at much lower pollution levels than the general population. This tells us that a safe level of exposure for one person is not safe for everyone.
- UL Environment Inc. was created in response to the increase demand for environmentally sustainable products, and its services will help industries and the public make sense of "green" claims while helping manufacturers maintain transparency and credibility in the marketplace.
- If we still rode horses every day, we’d never have a barn attached to the house because the animal odors would be objectionable. Yet houses routinely have an attached garage which contains much more unhealthy odors.
- The majority of the balanced ventilation systems on the market are heat recovery ventilators (HRVs). Most HRVs consist of an insulated cabinet, a heat-recovery core, two fans, some ductwork, and a control. But not all HRVs are created equal.
- In a typical forced-air system with leaky ducts and an inefficient filter, the ducts are usually contaminated with a wide variety of particulates and microorganisms—all directly exposed to the air being breathed by the occupants.
- The laws protecting citizens from potentially dangerous cleaning and personal-care products remain absent, minimal, or rarely enforced.
- Greening a house that was built before we knew to care isn't impossible; here are 45 tips.
- The National Green Building Standard (ICC 700-2008) for all residential construction work including single-family homes, apartments and condos, land development and remodeling and renovation has been approved by the American National Standards Institute.
- Training in the whole-house approach to home performance gives contractors the ability to save lives as well as energy.
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