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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Air conditioners use the most electricity of any home appliance. Here's how to reduce energy usage in cooling your home.
- 16 tips from the U.S. Green Building Council will help you take the steps to green cost-effectiveness.
- There are three different technologies available today for high efficiency toilets (HET) designed to help homeowners save water and help the environment.
- A growing number of environmentally conscious homeowners are using a home energy system that is really down-to-earth.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has developed the first Asthma Friendly product standards for plush toys, pillows, bedding, flooring, vacuum cleaners, and air purifiers.
- While it is clear that some people inherit a genetic predisposition to asthma, the increases in asthma rates are due to environmental, rather than genetic factors.
- If you choose to use a powder on your baby, use it sparingly. Powders can easily become airborne and can enter the respiratory system causing irritation.
- A healthy house needs balanced airflow.
- Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical produced in large quantities for use mainly in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins.
- Not only is it less than green, bottled water is often no better than tap water, and plastic bottles may pose health concerns.
- Green homes link sustainable materials and practices with better human and environmental health.
- The Green Home Guide offers tips for a better, greener life.
- John Bower's advice on building healthy homes.
- Cleaning and maintaining your car using less harmful alternatives.
- In early 2007 Kevin and Kathy Christopherson set about building a home in Hanover, Wisconsin. This was no ordinary new home construction, though. Since Kathy has an acute chemical sensitivity, special precautions were necessary – precautions that presented some particularly challenging construction issues.
- Chemicals not listed on product labels due to weak regulatory standards.
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