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Be a Green Boomer
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
A recent report I read indicated that the earnings of non-green products nationally is at $12 billion per year compared with similar green products that earn $1 billion per year. At first I thought this...
Tags: baking soda, boomers, borax and vinegar, carcinogenic chemicals, rainwater runoff
Why Aren’t Hotels, Motels, and B&B’s Greener?
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
In today’s world, good indoor air quality (IAQ) is a subject that is frequently on the lips of people concerned with greener and cleaner air. Good IAQ is important in lodgings because the livelihood...
Tags: allergen, baking soda, commercial lodgings, odor removal
The Summer Road Trip: Your Car and Your Health
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
If you’re planning to travel by car this summer, here are some suggestions to ensure that your car doesn’t affect your health adversely. One important goal is to prevent chemicals from leaking into...
Tags: exhaust fumes, gas combustion, pollen, solvents, volatile liquids
Let’s Pull Out Some Guns and Talk Some Serious Tale
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
Consumers seem to have a few misconceptions about what lurks dangerously in indoor air and what is best to clean up those microscopic enemies. Let’s take a look at three issues.
MOLD
This is a...
Tags: misconceptions, toxic black mold, volatile organic compounds
The Weather and Your Health
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
Our reaction to our outdoor and indoor environments can be related to the weather of the day. For thousands of years, people have understood that sunlight, cloudiness, stormy conditions, and when they...
Tags: allergens, indoor environments, occasional headaches, sexual drive
Are Burning Candles a Health Hazard?
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
Carbon soot comes from a variety of combustion sources. These include fireplaces, water heaters, furnaces, pilot lights, smoke from cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, cooking byproducts, gas dryers, automobile...
Tags: asthma, byproducts, carbon soot, volatile organic compounds, wicks
How Toxic is Mold?
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
The subject of mold toxins (mycotoxins) is becoming a regular feature of mold reports and claims made by lawyers. There is as much fiction as there is fact surrounding these chemical substances.
I have...
Tags: allergic reaction, chemical byproducts, immune systems, toxic mold
How Common are Chemicals and Fragrances at Home?
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
A popular shampoo for women has twenty-two chemicals plus fragrance. Another brand contains as many as forty ingredients. The male version has somewhat fewer ingredients, plus fragrance. The typical bar...
Tags: allergic reactions, chlorine bleach, chloroform, laundry detergent, skin care lotion
How Should We Retire Tires?
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
The issue of what to do with discarded used tires has become a world-wide environmental problem. Only a fraction of them can be used for asphalt or road construction. They also pose a problem in landfills,...
Tags: atmospheric pollution, backyards, federal health standards, landfills, steel belted tires
The Holiday Season and Respiratory Health
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space & Uncategorized |
If you have asthma or other respiratory disorders, severe allergic reactions, or chemical sensitivity, take precautions to protect your health during the holiday seasons.
During the holiday season,...
Tags: allergens, allergy, environment, formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds
The Skinny on Volatile Organic Compounds
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are some of the worst toxins that we can come into contact with and they happen to surround us inside and out. A VOC is a compound containing carbon that is found in many...
Tags: carpeting, environmental protection agency, nail polish remover, volatile organic compounds
Dealing with Dust
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
House Dust: Just what is this stuff that causes perennial allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma and respiratory allergy?
House dust is a complex mixture composed of pollens and spores; plant hairs and...
Tags: bronchial asthma, dust mites, household dust, pollens
Allergy Q & A
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
Q. What is an allergen?
A. An allergen is a substance that causes the production of a certain class of antibodies that can lead to an allergic reaction. There are a lot of things we know today...
Tags: allergen, allergy, antigen
Boomers Sleeping With the Window Open
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
Is It Beneficial?
Weather permitting, many allergic persons sleep with a window open at night for fresh air. They believe that since pollen is released by most trees and many weeds during the day or...
Boomers, “Tis the Pollen and Allergy Season”
Posted in: Eco Home Center & Greening Your Living Space |
Causes and Remedy
Pollen grains are microscopic and are basically spherical in shape. Most of them measure between 20-75 microns in size, about the size of many larger mold spores, and can travel on...
Mark Sneller, PhD
Posted in: Boomer-Living's Authors & Eco Home Authors & Greening Your Living Space |
Mark Sneller, PhD, Boomer-Living Director, was born in Venice, California in 1942. From 1965-1967 he served in the Peace Corps in India. Mark Sneller received his Master's Degree from California State...
