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- Air conditioners use the most electricity of any home appliance. Here's how to reduce energy usage in cooling your home.
- A survey of local home building associations and recent updates reveal that more than 100,000 homes have been built and certified by voluntary, builder-supported green building programs around the country since the mid-1990s, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
- Greening a house that was built before we knew to care isn't impossible; here are 45 tips.
- What to do, what not to do.
- One of the most important ideas to emerge in recent years is the concept that a house is much more than an assemblage of materials. Instead, building scientists and researchers now view a house as an interactive system.
- All green building programs require mechanical ventilation individually designed for each house.
- 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.
- The Healthy House Institute built a model demonstration house designed to optimize occupant health by minimizing indoor air pollution.
- The Home Ventilating Institute (HVI) offers guidelines on how to select the right ventilation system for your home, how much air it should move and why, types of ventilation systems, and where to get more information on ventilation standards.
- Navigate the options for cleaner air.
- Simple ways to control asthma and allergies.
- Pros, cons and how they work.
- Home interventions to reduce asthma triggers can curb soaring health care costs and improve health outcomes.
- How well do they clean the air?
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 81-87.
- This report, provided by the Carpet and Rug Institute, showed that when equal amounts of test dust (ISO Fine Test Dust 12103-1, A2) were present on hard versus carpeted flooring, there was less dust driven airborne by the carpeted surface. See also the sidebar and the topics, "The Clean Trust Comments" and "Another Viewpoint on Carpet" and the sidebar, "Soiled Carpet Affects Indoor Air Quality".
- For someone wishing to pursue the known, documented health effects of various materials, a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is the best place to start.
- Independent poll shows majority concerned about quality.
- 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.
- Antique pieces can lend warmth and charm to your home.
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