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Green Building
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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - The Healthy House Institute built a model demonstration house designed to optimize occupant health by minimizing indoor air pollution.
- Most people have heard that tight houses cause indoor air pollution. Actually, this represents a simplistic view of the problem. Tight construction is, in reality, part of the solution. This article explains why.
- The carpet industry has made substantial reductions in the levels of VOCs in carpet.
- LEED homes offer many benefits to home owners, including lower energy and water bills; reduced greenhouse gas emissions; increased comfort, less exposure to indoor pollutants such as mold, mildew and other indoor toxins, and lower maintenance costs.
- Various ways in which windows affect our environment.
- By incorporating green remodeling practices, homeowners can avoid serious health issues linked to unhealthy indoor air.
- Green remodeling can be done in small ways and doesn’t necessarily have to encompass the entire home.
- This candid interview explains why John and Lynn Bower founded the original Healthy House Institute and why Lynn Bower wrote her classic tome, Creating a Healthy Household.
- Cellulose insulation can be a satisfactory insulating material if it is used conscientiously. While most people may not be bothered at all by a little insulation dust in the house, there are thousands of people around the country who are more sensitive than the general population to environmental pollutants.
- John Bower\'s advice on building healthy homes.
- John Bower's presentation at the Energy Efficient Building Association, Excellence in Housing Conference, Dallas Texas, February 1994.
- Giving an old house - a 1926 craftsman-style bungalow - a greener, healthier future; This Old House (TOH) dedicated its 50th project to an eco-friendly remodel.
- Beat the potential health risk of gas appliances and, over time, the expense of utility electric.
- Metal furniture can be less irritating. It\'s also more decorative than you might think.
- It turns out the chef's kitchen is extremely practical.
- Your choice of cabinet materials may affect your breathing space for years to come.
- Or, how to reduce the cons to installing healthier laminate countertops.
- Navigate the options for cleaner air.
- It is not so much the wood as the adhesives in these products that release a known toxin.
- This article describes the design, construction and guiding philosophy of the first healthy house built by John Bower (founder of the original Healthy House Institute) in the early 1990s. Although times have changed and technology has advanced, Bower's founding principles - "eliminate, separate, ventilate" - pictured by the three green vertical bars of the current HHI logo, still apply.
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