Articles related to "Indoor Air"



Indoor Air Quality: Hazardous?
Indoor air is more polluted than air you breathe when outside. This is a concern because people spend up to 90% of their lives indoors and health issues are increasing.
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Best Indoor Tropical Plants for Clean Indoor Air
Indoor tropical plants have been found to improve the causes of Sick Building Syndrome. Here is a list of houseplants to clean indoor air and tips on how to grow them.
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Dracaenas for your Health
Dracaenas are popular with interiorscapers for both home and office use. Learn about their culture here.
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Growing Houseplants is Essential to Your Health!
This is the beginning of a series on houseplants that help improve indoor air quality.
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Improving Indoor Air Quality
Interior air is often more polluted than air outside. What can you do to lessen allergens and make your family's time indoors healthier?
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Indoor Air Quality
How long can you hold your breath? With all the chemicals, fumes, and particulates trapped inside buildings these days, breathing is one more habit you might want to kick.

Inside your home
Several ideas for the consumer to make their home earth friendly.lots of tips and much more to notice and change for an environmentally aware home.
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Managing Indoor Air Quality
Indoor air quality is a hot topic, since more efforts are being taken to seal the home for energy efficiency. Radon, carbon monoxide, and mold spores can be deadly.
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Office Plants Promote Good Health
Learn which indoor plants clean home and office air, promote good health, and prevent sick building syndrome.
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Palms to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Palms help to improve our indoor air quality.
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Winter Headaches
Space heaters to woodstoves, we're all trying to stay warm this winter without breaking the budget. Meanwhile, the air quality in our homes may be giving us headaches.
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Home Remedies for a Cough
A cough is caused by irritation of the upper respiratory tract. To treat a cough with home remedies, it is important to first identify the cause of your cough.
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Air Pollution is a Growing Concern for the World
The decline in the quality of air people breathe today is investigated by students to determine how smog is formed from carbon-based materials.
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Allergies and Mold
Some information about mold, a common allergen.
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Could Your Indoor Air be Making You Sick?
Is your house a sick house? If left untreated, mold will grow into thriving communities. Toxic mold may become the defining environmental issue of the 21st century.
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Houseplants and Clean Air
Indoor air pollution is an increasing problem these days, but some plants naturally remove harmful toxins and make the air we breathe cleaner!
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Building a Green Home with Sustainable Materials
It takes sustainable building materials to build a green home. It will cost more. But it's a good investment in home equity, and if done right, will lower utility bills.
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Massage Therapist Workplace Safety
Therapists in the massage and spa industries should be aware of dangers in the workplace from product exposure to occupational burnout.
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Eco Design for Sustainable Living
Cradle to Cradle sustainable design challenges conventional environmental thinking and practice. Ask three questions to verify a product's green claims.
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Effective Homemade Non-Toxic Air Fresheners
Air fresheners mask smells, coat nasal passages diminishing the sense of smell, or reduce your sense of smell with nerve-deadening agents. Here are safe alternatives.
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Homemade Carpet Cleaners: Lean, Mean, and Green
Commercial cleaning products are expensive and contain dangerous toxins. These recipes for homemade carpet cleaners are safer, inexpensive, and reduce home pollutants.
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Homemade Non-Toxic Drain Cleaners and Openers
Commercial drain openers are full of dangerous toxins and harmful chemicals. These recipes make safer alternatives while helping to protect your health by living green.
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Homemade Non-Toxic Floor Cleaners and Polishes
Keeping floors clean, shined and polished requires many chemical products. These simple make-at-home recipes save money, protect the environment, and get the job done.
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Houseplants and Humans
Indoor air in winter can be as dry as the desert. Find ways to humidify the atmosphere for the benefit of both houseplants and humans.
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How to Buy Green Furniture
Consequences of using non-green furniture, along with methods of identifying and purchasing green furniture are provided.
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Non-Toxic Homemade Glass and Mirror Cleaners
Cleaning products are designed to make life easier, but home cleaners contain many toxic substances. These recipes help reduce pollutants for healthier "green" living.
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Recipes for Safe Homemade All-Purpose Cleaners
Commercial cleaners are responsible for many poisons in the home and pose a risk to human health. These easy recipes for general cleaners are economical and effective.
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Snuggling with Plants
Besides being green, year round, living house plants give us many benefits. They add beauty to a room, appear to have a calming effect on us, and make our homes friendly and inviting.
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House Air Purifier Comparison
The wide variety of home air purifiers offers choices in portable room air cleaners as well as whole house air purifiers that combine several filters and techniques.
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How to Choose Safer, Healthier Paint Products
Paint that contains volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that cause illness and physical discomfort can be replaced with certified chemical-free products.
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Cancer and the Environment
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Houseplants for clean air?
Can you use houseplants to clean your personal environment? I review a book that says you can and share my personal experience with houseplants.
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Cold Weather and Your Child's Skin
With the oncoming of cold weather, skin can start to dry, chap, and flake. Here's what you can control when you can't control the elements.
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Decorating with Houseplants Online Course
This fascinating mini-course instructs the student to best set off your home, improve your health and design the best houseplant feng shui for your goals.
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Decorating with Houseplants Online Course
This fascinating mini-course instructs the student to best set off your home, improve your health and design the best houseplant feng shui for your goals.
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Create a Greener Home Office
Green doesn't stop at the kitchen sink or the garage door. These earth friendly suggestions for your home office will save you money while saving the planet.
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Creating a Green Office
Go green at the office to create a healthy work environment, save money, improve employee retention and have customers feeling good about who they do business with.
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Creative Recycling
Going green can be a creative undertaking with family and friends. Inspire each other to create new ways to simplify and green-up a life worth protecting.
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Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
Cleaning products make a lot of claims. But read the labels right and you can easily clean house while cleaning the planet.
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Family Travel - Going Solo with Kids
Kids and parents alike can have a great time when just one parent takes them on vacation. Trip planning, however, takes a special slant when a single adult is in charge.
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Going Green in Home Projects
Take a quick look at the benefits of green building and see how you can join in.
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Green Gifts for Gourmets
Christmas 2008 is the year to give green and foodie fans are no exception. Give environmental kitchen gifts that make a difference.
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Houseplants and the Winter Blues
Houseplants are a simple and fun way to brighten your home during the long dreary days of winter. They can help beat the winter blues and provide some health benefits too
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How To Beat The Winter Doldrums With Houseplants
Houseplants are a simple and fun way to brighten your home during the long dreary days of winter. They help beat the winter blues and provide some health benefits too.
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Radon - It's a Gas!
Radon - it's a naturally-occurring gas found in many homes and buildings in the US. Oh yes - it's radioactive and can cause lung cancer.
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Swimming Pool Heater Basics
When the weather gets cold, installing an in-ground or above ground swimming pool heater allows continued recreational and lap swimming. Choose solar, gas, or heat pump.
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Tips for Running on a Treadmill
During the winter, outdoor running is difficult in cold climates. Here are some tips to help runners get a great workout on a treadmill.
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What Are HEPA Air Filters and Purifiers?
Many of the best air filters, home air purifiers and vacuum cleaners for asthma and allergy sufferers rely on HEPA filters to capture tiny particles and ensure clean air.
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Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
May is Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month and this year's focus is on children and the issues affecting them in our society.
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Avoiding Cancer One Day at a Time
No one is immune to cancer, but via lifestyle choices we can significantly reduce our risk. This book shows not only how, but why.
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