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Health & SafetySort 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 products now claim "No Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)" and others claim to be "Unscented" - is there more to this story?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- According to EverydayHealth.com, there is good news and bad news about older homes. There are also simple steps you can take to make a big difference.
- Improving and cleaning your air is an often forgotten task of spring cleaning.
- Is it possible to build without toxins, using breathable walls, and still have an energy-efficient, cost-effective home?
- Nanoparticles are now being used in many consumer products. But how safe are they?
- Spring cleaning is the time to get tough with the dirt, but not with your health. Here's how to choose less toxic green cleaners this spring and anytime of the year.
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