Safe Cookware
Friday, 22 November 2013
Does Stainless Steel Leach Chemicals? There is a lot of information in the blogosphere about health and safety in cookware, but when a client asked whether stainless steel leached dangerous chemicals, I was unable to find a quick answer to her question. I decided to look into the issue of safe cookware myself. In one 2013
- Published in Environmental Testing, Green Building Consulting
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What is in that New Car Smell?
Friday, 15 November 2013
Testing a new car for VOC’s and Formaldehyde Healthy Building Science recently leased a brand new 2013 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Clean Diesel for use by the inspection department. While the car is very nice, low emissions and great mileage, it definitely has that New Car Smell. Being the science geeks we are at HBS, I
- Published in Environmental Testing
Not All LED’s are the Same (Addendum)
Friday, 08 November 2013
Dirty Electricity Concerns? In the recent blog of September 10th, 2013, EMI and LEDs – Not all LEDs are the same! we described dirty electricity and examined several brands of CFLs and LEDs. This blog tests several more brands of LEDs to determine which produces the least amount of LED dirty electricity . It has
- Published in Environmental Testing, Green Building Consulting
Vote for Healthy Building Science!
Monday, 28 October 2013
We have until November 15th to get 250 votes! Please vote for Healthy Building Science to become eligible for a $250,000 grant! Voting requires logging in via facebook. You can only vote via facebook. Follow this link: https://www.missionmainstreetgrants.com/business/detail/96146 If we win we would expand our toolkits and service area – which equates to helping thousands of more
- Published in Business
Magnetic Fields – EMF Consulting
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
When performing EMF surveys many “EMF consultants” only evaluate low-frequency magnetic fields. When folks call and say they “have an EMF meter” and are measuring “high emf,” they generally have a Gauss meter and are measuring magnetic field field strength or magnetic flux. Most Building Biologists focus on Alternating Current (AC) electromagnetic fields, and in addition
- Published in Environmental Testing, Green Building Consulting
Alliance Against Greenwash
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Sierra Club, GreenPeace, and Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) are getting behind a new initiative called the “Alliance Against Greenwash.” Launched by Jason Grant in San Francisco, the Alliance Against Greenwash sets out to fight false advertising around environmental impacts. As wealthy corporations continue buying air-time to proclaim their greenness… there is still no third-party
- Published in Green Building Consulting
Radiation Exposure – How much is too much?
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Radiation Exposure How Much Is “Too Much” Alex Stadtner, president of Healthy Building Science, wrote a blog in April 2012 entitled “Radioactive Granite and Quartzite – Risks from Radon” about discovering high levels of radiation in Quartzite and Granite used in residential building for items such as countertops, flooring, and bath and shower enclosures. While
- Published in Environmental Testing, Healthy Building Inspections & Testing
Building a Home for Peace of Mind & Security
Monday, 07 October 2013
When most people build or remodel their homes, they pay close attention to indoor air quality, comfort and aesthetics. The task of building to survive natural disasters like earthquakes (as the San Francisco Bay region is prone to) is left to building codes and local code enforcement. And the task of ensuring the home maintains livable
- Published in Green Building Consulting
Smog and Particulates
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Smog and Particulates How Fine Particulates Affect Exterior and Interior Air Quality No matter how well our “Green and Healthy” homes are designed and built, our interior air quality can only be as good as our exterior air quality (our “source air”), unless we add active air filtration into our building design. But how do
- Published in Environmental Testing, Healthy Building Inspections & Testing