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Health & Safety
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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Most houses and apartments have the potential to negatively affect the health of the people living there.
- Balanced ventilation uses two fans that operate simultaneously, one to blow fresh air indoors and one to blow stale air outdoors—so the house experiences a neutral pressure.
- When's the last time you attended a conference and one of the keynote speakers was only 16 years old?
- How coal-tar sealants could be impacting our health and increasing our risk of cancer.
- One Idaho-based cleaning service makes this interesting comment.
- 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.
- HHI Staff and EverydayHealth.com give simple tips to minimizing indoor allergy triggers.
- While they may not have asthma, allergies, or chemical sensitivities, they may have other life-draining health complaints related to unhealthy homes.
- I write this as a materials scientist concerned about the inadequacy of regulation, monitoring, and control of what are known as nanoparticles (NPs).
- Nanoparticles are now being used in many consumer products. But how safe are they?
- The primary lesson I have learned in my first two weeks of home ownership is to let go of expectations.
- How does an induction cooktop compare with gas and traditional stove burners?
- When using the term “green prefabricated homes”, some of us can’t help but imagine a small double-wide mobile home covered in some sort of mossy overgrowth. While that notion is pretty far out, many of us have preconceived notions about green housing that frankly aren’t true. This book - Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid - contests these fallacies.
- One class of pollutants that has not been considered much involves the vast variety of human and animal prescription medications now being found in increasing concentrations in our water supplies.
- Taking note of the recent earthquake in Japan should prompt us to take practical steps to prepare ourselves and our families for potential disasters.
- Following are questions and answers posed to HHI by Content That Works, a group "dedicated to helping local media and businesses thrive by creating high-quality editorial products that attract readers."
- You can lower the levels and impact of noise pollution in your home in surprising ways; for example, start with your exhaust ventilation fans.
- 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.
- Greener and more sustainable cleaning products are often purported to be weak and less effective than their traditional counterparts. However, as the green trend continues, more products are measuring up or even exceeding our expectations. That was the case in our testing of Skoy Cloths and Scrubs.
- The Safer Insulation Solution is a national effort working to reduce human and ecological hazards related to toxic flame retardants in plastic foam insulation, and reduce building costs without reducing fire safety.
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