Ask an Expert: Lead-Based Paint
Ask an Expert is an occasional feature where we pose a question submitted by a reader to our Healthy Home Director Carl Grimes...
Energy Improvements Have Healthy Home Benefits
Making your home healthier doesn’t have to hurt your bank balance. In fact, a healthy home can actually be far more...
How Air Quality Affects Your Sleep
The most important place to have a healthy environment is in the bedroom. Why? Because it’s where you spend a third of your...
Is Teflon Toxic?
Teflon is a kitchen favorite, and many households are likely to have an array of non-stick pots and pans in their kitchen. With...
Air Quality Indoors Can Be the Worst in the Winter
Surprisingly, it can be. Outdoor pollutant levels can skyrocket in the winter because of increased burning of fossil fuels and...
Choosing Healthier Toys For Your Children
As a parent, you probably work pretty hard to make healthy food choices for your children. But do you make healthy toy choices...
Ten Simple Steps to Improve the Health of Your Home, Right Now
Indoor air quality can be a complex, daunting subject. But that should not stop you from taking action to improve it. There are...
Summer Spotlight: Dealing with Lyme Disease
What is Lyme Disease? Lyme disease – which can sometimes be confused with mold exposure because of overlapping symptoms and...
Household products contribute as much air pollution as automobiles
Did you know? Everyday products such as perfume, skin lotion, hair spray, deodorant, household cleaners and lawn pesticides are a...
Drop the Kitchen Sponge
“Cleaning” your kitchen sponge sufficiently enough to get rid of ALL of the bacteria is a very tall order....
Clean More or Less?
Cleaning must be more – and less – than we’ve been taught. Cleanliness may be next to godliness for...
Clean Up How you Clean Up!
Keeping a clean house is important. Not only does your home look better, but keeping dirt, dust, and grime off surfaces helps to...

did you know
Indoor air can be 5x more polluted than outside affecting allergies, asthma, concentration, sleep quality and more.