Tips for Building Healthy Home – Minimize VOCs
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Tips for Building Healthy Home – Part 1: Minimize VOCs Minimize Exposure to Formaldehyde Formaldehyde is one of the most common industrial chemicals and is widely used as a component of building products, upholstery, carpeting, etc. and classified as a human carcinogen. Formaldehyde’s other health impacts include respiratory problems; eye, nose, and throat irritation; allergic
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Healthy Building Science Green Festival
Monday, 19 November 2012
Healthy Building Science Green Festival – San Francisco The Healthy Building Science Green Festival booth two weekends ago was a total hit! After the Green Festival we all took a big breathe and dove right into festivities and events for GreenBuild 2012… now we await the air quality results. It’s been an amazing 10 days. The
Toxins in Household Goods – Where can consumers turn?
Monday, 29 October 2012
Toxins in Household Goods are the current norm. With the growing buzz concerning toxins in building materials and a push for more transparency, where can consumers turn? The answer: Not enough places. Several factors contribute to this lack of information on toxins in household goods. One lies in the sheer number of ingredients involved. Significant
- Published in Green Building Consulting
Sick Building Materials Smell Bad – What if it’s too late and the building stinks?
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Sick Building Materials Smell Bad- What if it’s too late and the building stinks? At least once a week we get the following call… “We were so careful to only allow healthy materials in our project. But we just moved in and it stinks! We’re worried the building materials smell bad. Can you come test
- Published in Environmental Testing, Green Building Consulting
Green Building Logos can be scary…
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Some Green Building Logos Are Scary… Green Building logos are full of leaves and trees. Use Google Images (“green building logo”) and that’s just about all you’ll see. It’s overdone. We struggled with these logo concepts when coming up with our new logo. How do you quickly illustrate nature-loving and “green” without a leaf or plant?
- Published in Business, Green Building Consulting
Free and Easy Ways to Protect Your Family Today
Sunday, 01 January 2012
This modified excerpt of free and easy ways to protect your family is from a Building Biology brochure created in conjunction with Melody Chan Graves. We go the extra mile to protect the safety and health of those we love. But many of us don’t realize that there is a world of silent killers and disease-causing agents
- Published in Healthy Building Inspections & Testing
Green and Sustainable Building Resources – 2011
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Green Building Resources – 2011 These green building resources offer free educational materials about Green Building, Healthy Building, and Sustainable Building. These are really all different names for the same thing: “High-Performance Building” Healthy Building Science supports and has relied on these green building resources ourselves, so we are happy to share them with you!
- Published in Green Building Consulting
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Resources – 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
EMF Resources Electromagnetic fields and radio frequency radiation are increasingly becoming hot-botton issues. A five-day seminar from the Institute for Building Biology & Ecology (IBE) is where Alex first learned about the health affects from EMF, and how to measure and mitigate EMF in buildings. EMF resources are becoming increasingly common, but good sites are diamonds in
- Published in Environmental Testing, Healthy Building Inspections & Testing