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Healthy Indoors Jan 2020 Digital Edition
The latest issue of Healthy Indoors Magazine is available now! Read it here
Featured
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MOISTURE, MOISTURE EVERYWHERE
by Jeffrey C. May — Fungi require moisture. I want to start with a brief review of two types of fungi, because it’s important for building professionals to know the difference. Macrofungi produce fruiting bodies that we call mushrooms or toadstools. These organisms have hyphae that can fan out a few feet to many yards
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Home Inspector Credentials
by Mark Jones — For the past decade or so, the state of New York has implemented a licensing requirement to perform residential or commercial home inspections. In order to obtain a license, one must not only take a test, but apprentice with an experienced inspector for a certain period of time and for a
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The TREE House, Part 2:
Lessons learned from a Deep Energy Retrofit — By Nate Adams — Want to know something crazy about the deep energy retrofit of this building? It uses 35-45% more energy than one of our much less deep projects. That’s one of the things we learned from the Hiram College TREE House project. Last time we
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The Toxic Body Burden
By Alice Delia — Ever wonder what happens to all the things we take into our bodies every day? A lot of the food we eat is metabolized into useful substances, notably proteins, fats and cholesterol. And oxygen from the air we breathe is absorbed into the blood through the lungs while carbon dioxide moves
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Controlling the Humidity in Your Home in Winter
by Allison Bailes — I’m going to go out on a limb and make what you may think is an outrageous statement: Water is the most interesting substance in the world. Some of you may immediately respond, “Oh, yeah! What about beer?” (Or wine or Sidecars, Negronis, or Sazeracs or whatever your drink of choice
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Tips for Keeping a “Green House” Healthy
By Jeff May — Healthy Indoors Magazine November 2019 — Regrettably, summer will soon come to an end. In New England where I live, the leaves will turn colors and nights will be cooler. Soon we’ll be shutting up our houses and turning on the heat. With a reduction of fresh air in the house
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Call to Action- a Change.org petition regarding Military Housing by The Military Matters Foundation
CALL/E-MAIL SENATORS& SIGN THE PETITION HELP MAKE CHANGE! — THANK YOU for taking the time to help! We have made it easy for you. Please Click the buttons below for Contact Information for the Senators and the call/E-mail Scripts (cut and paste)! Super easy! Here’s the Background Story: On Dec 3rd, the US Senate Arms Services
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Having “The Talk” with Kids
by Tom Murray — The other day, while I was enjoying my morning coffee, my 6-year old granddaughter, Zoey, cuddled up next to me to show me a picture she had drawn in kindergarten. It was a picture of the earth with a sad face and surrounding the earth was an array of tiny little
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A Mother’s Story: Mercury in School Gym Flooring Makes Son Sick
by Amy Ziff — Trisha Dello Iacono knew there was something at New Jersey’s Wenonah Elementary that was making her 9-year-old son sick. She had a thick file for every time he’d gone to the nurse with migraines, or vomiting from nausea. It escalated early this year. He began developing a tic. She thought he