WHY A HEALTHY HOME?
The answer is simple: for you and your family’s health. Since the energy crisis of the 1970’s, Americans have made their homes substantially more energy efficient by sealing and insulating them from the outside; these air-tight homes seal in air pollutants. In the same time, the pervasiveness of toxins, pollutants, and chemicals, has dramatically increased. Consequently, the EPA estimates that levels of air pollution inside the home can be 2 to 5 times higher than outdoor levels, and ranks poor indoor air quality among the top five environmental risks to public health [2]. Since most of us spend 90% of our time indoors [1], it is important that we improve the air quality of our home.
An inferior household environment is exacerbated by our use of chemicals that find their way into homes through paints, household cleaners, dry cleaned clothes, building supplies, furniture, electronics, personal care products, etc. Chemicals are ubiquitous in our lives, are continually becoming more prevalent, and their dangers are still largely unknown –basic toxicity testing has not been done for approximately half of the 3,000 high-volume chemicals in commercial use [3]. |
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