Everyone is talking about … green! The question is what kind of green? There are green peas and you know if you like peas, prefer growing your own peas, buying organic or ordinary canned/frozen peas. Your knowledge about peas reflects your focus on healthy choices – eating vegetables and controlling the chemicals you eat or avoid.

Then there’s green paint, but we’re not talking about paint the color of green peas. We’re talking about green paint that doesn’t give off fumes that smell funny and could make you sick depending on how many other unhealthy chemicals there are in your home. READ MORE

We take our indoor air quality for granted. We don’t really see indoor air the way we see smog outdoors, so we simply assume the air inside our homes is clean. The reality is the air inside our homes is seldom as clean than the air right outside our front door.

As building codes change to focus on greater energy efficiency, we are reducing the exchange of air flow from inside our home with fresh air from outside our homes. With the drop in air exchange, we need to learn more about the unhealthy things polluting our indoor air. We also need to learn what we can/should do to keep our indoor air cleaner and healthier, i.e. changing furnace filters regularly. Hopefully we’re starting to pay attention to indoor air quality as asthma and other respiratory problems rise. READ MORE