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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Learn what combustion byproducts, natural draft, and home air-pressure have to do with a backdrafting chimney and your health.
- Find out why styrofoam is one of the biggest menaces to the environment.
- Learn why home hygiene is just as important as hygiene in medical facilities, and how cleaning specific areas of your home can have the most impact on your family's health.
- Many people believe that tap water is simply H2O—two molecules of hydrogen combined with one of oxygen. Actually, water is a very complex solution.
- Many products now claim "No Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)" and others claim to be "Unscented" - is there more to this story?
- New federal standards in 2012 will mean more efficient light bulbs and a change in the way light bulbs are labeled and purchased.
- You can lower the levels and impact of noise pollution in your home in surprising ways; for example, start with your exhaust ventilation fans.
- Do smart meters actually lower energy use and cost, and are they safe?
- We get a lot of questions about what we call “simplistic solutions to complex situations.” For example, most people want an easy way to solve the problem of poor indoor air quality. Well, we’d like that too and, in some cases, there are relatively simple solutions. But in many cases, the solution isn’t easy.
- 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.
- 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.
- While plywood and other manufactured wood products have long been a source of formaldehyde in our indoor environments, now formaldehyde-free plywood is available.
- Inspiration can be found in many places and can be practical to almost any situation.
- Jennifer Schwab addresses the debate on how much downsizing is ideal and who should take this step.
- There is a growing body of evidence that poor indoor air quality and other indoor pollutants are negatively affecting us all. Yet it is still difficult to define precisely what makes some materials unhealthy.
- Sierra Club Green Home.com proposes a new industry standard that balances our longtime desire for lots of space with the current and future need to downsize.
- It is sad when people decide not to incorporate healthy features into their home project because of cost.
- HHI Staff and EverydayHealth.com give simple tips to minimizing indoor allergy triggers.
- The varied effects may be due to one general cause - the effect of exposure to low levels of chemicals in the home, at the workplace, and in food.
- The simple, yet informative guide to discovering the common health dangers in your home and what to do about them.
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