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Health & Safety
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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Cleaning and maintaining your car using less harmful alternatives.
- EPA has added an indoor air quality component to the already well-known Energy Star program—the Energy Star Indoor Air Package (IAP).
- The unvarnished truth about wood finishes, and how to make healthier choices.
- Why build sustainable communities with LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND)?
- NSF works with DfE to help consumers identify products that are safer for the environment and their health.
- Viewing the whole house as an integrated system helps.
- The Green Home Guide offers tips for a better, greener life.
- Particle pollution (also called particulate matter or PM) is the term for a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air.
- Armed with this information, you can protect yourself, your children, and your pets from harmful pesticides.
- With the ill effects of poor indoor air quality often in the news these days, it pays to
design and build a house that’s healthy from the start.
- Besides holding up the house, a foundation is also a connection between the soil and living space. How this connection is made is important for the health of the occupants and the durability of the house.
- Understanding the physics of indoor air movement for a healthier home.
- Making your home a greener place is a commitment – to yourself, your family, your community and the world. But more than that, it is a learning process.
- Vinyl flooring can certainly outgas (emit) potentially bothersome chemical odors and VOCs, but it also offers a relatively impenetrable, smooth surface—one that’s water-resistant, unable to harbor dust mites, pollen grains, and mold spores, and one that’s easy to sweep and wash clean.
- The results of bake-outs are, at best, mixed.
- What is known about tight construction, why it is a good idea, and how it is integral to systematic house design and construction.
- Many commercial mattresses are manufactured using polyurethane, synthetic fabrics, chemical fire retardants, toxic dyes, formaldehyde and stain-resistant chemicals. These chemicals are outgassed over time, and can expose skin and lungs to potentially toxic substances, causing allergic reactions and other health problems.
- While a school building should be an ideal place for children to develop, thrive and learn, recent studies have found that poor indoor air quality (IAQ) is affecting children's health and their ability to learn.
- Study finds healthy, efficient homes increasingly accessible to all.
- A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws, but none of those chemicals was listed on the product labels.
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