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RadonSort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - January is national Radon Action Month and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency encourages everyone to test their homes for radon.
- The majority of U.S. families (67 percent) live in a home with at least one major health risk.
- Study samples measured less than background levels
for radon, radiation.
- Greening a house that was built before we knew to care isn\'t impossible; here are 45 tips.
- The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently completed the first U.S. scientific review of healthy homes interventions.
- EPA\'s Energy Star program now addresses indoor air quality (IAQ). Here is a summary of requirements you can use to improve your home\'s IAQ.
- The third principle of healthy design involves ventilation.
- EPA has added an indoor air quality component to the already well-known Energy Star program—the Energy Star Indoor Air Package (IAP).
- Besides holding up the house, a foundation is also a connection between the soil and living space. How this connection is made is important for the health of the occupants and the durability of the house.
- What is known about tight construction, why it is a good idea, and how it is integral to systematic house design and construction.
- Water is vital to life, so it should be as healthy as possible. This article covers plumbing and how it impacts the health of occupants.
- Just as we are seeing a need for a more holistic approach to medicine, we need to start looking at houses in a holistic manner.
- Making sense of green building programs.
- There are several ways to improve the air quality indoors—but all the solutions ideally should to be coupled with better ventilation.
- Can your house breathe?
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions.
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 11-21.
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 22-29.
- Knowing what hurts indoor air quality, can help you improve it.
- Fans, heat or energy recovery ventilators work continuously to improve indoor air quality.
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