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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - 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.
- Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are common indoor air pollutants. Being volatile, they evaporate easily, and being organic, they contain carbon.
- When is it safe to return to the freshly painted site?
- Research shows that irradiation could be key to removing hard-to-reach pathogens inside fruits and vegetables.
- Questions and answers from Dr. Thad Godish, Ph.D.
- Water filters can be useful to improve water quality, but they must be chosen carefully. This is because there are different kinds of filters and they don’t all remove the same types of contaminants.
- Before purchasing a home water treatment unit, consider local water quality, cost and maintenance of the unit, product performance, and certifications to make sure the unit will meet your needs.
- As everyone knows, good quality water is essential to good health. This chapter discusses some of the more common home water problems. The following chapter will offer suggestions for equipment that is available to help reduce or eliminate them.
- Water Treatment For Dummies provides a large amount of well-researched information in a small, very-readable guide.
- It’s best to test several brands for appearance and personal tolerance.
- How to make homes tight and ventilate right.
- Do they work? Are they affordable?
- Find out how to tell whether a product or action is "green" or not.
- Training in the whole-house approach to home performance gives contractors the ability to save lives as well as energy.
- There are three general types of air cleaners on the market: mechanical filters, electronic air cleaners, and ion generators.
- 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.
- Pure, clean water. That's what the ads say. But what does the lab say?
- Although perhaps the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century was the disinfection of water, a recent study now shows that the chemicals used to purify the water we drink and use in swimming pools react with organic material in the water yielding toxic consequences.
- Your drinking water comes from surface water or ground water. Water utilities treat nearly 34 billion gallons of water every day. The amount and type of treatment applied varies with the source and quality of the water.
- "It is important to take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure such as hands-free devices or texting."
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