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Beyond the Flame: Healthier Candle Choices for a Sustainable Home
As the colder months draw in, WLLW explores how consciously-sourced candles can contribute to an inviting, healthy home.
Air Quality:
In the modern home, it's surprising how many toxins can exist, brought in from outdoors or swirling in the ether from household activities, furnishings and appliances, or condensation and mold, with nowhere to go but to build-up and pollute the air you breathe. As such, ensuring that a house has a healthy airflow and is as toxin-free as possible is paramount. Proper ventilation is key, with a mix of mechanical ventilation systems with high quality particle filters and natural ventilation both playing important roles dependent on the environmental factors inside and outside the home. Air purifiers, air cleaners and certain plants can also help.
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New EPA Standards Target Lead Hazards in Homes Nationwide
Enhanced protections aim to shield families and children from harmful lead exposure.
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Breathing Room: Enhancing Indoor Air Quality to Support Mental Wellbeing
Discover the impact of indoor air quality on psychological health and learn about the steps you can take to improve the air you breathe at home.
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The Big Picture: A Conversation with Dr. Frederica Perera
The leading environmental health scientist sits down with WLLW to discuss children’s health, the perils of climate change, and how to secure a healthy future for the next generation.
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How to Reduce Off-Gassing in Your Home
We delve into the topic of off-gassing, offering tips for reducing it in your home, leading to better indoor air quality.
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Clearing the Air: What is Off-gassing?
We explore off-gassing, its health implications and strategies for maintaining safe indoor air quality.
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The Best Air Purifiers
WLLW looks at the best air purifiers on the market, to improve your indoor air quality at home.
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The Best Houseplants for Improving Indoor Air Quality
Being surrounded by greenery does wonders for our physical and mental health – certain species can even purify the air in our homes. Here are eight of the most effective.
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The Impact of Indoor Air Quality on Asthma and Allergies
WLLW explores how poor indoor air quality exacerbates asthma and allergies, providing strategies to improve air purity at home.
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Breathe Easy in Your Home All Year Round
Drawing on Harvard professor and healthy buildings expert Joseph G. Allen's research, it's crucial to understand how environmental pollution impacts the air quality inside our homes, emphasizing the need to reassess and improve the air we breathe indoors.
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What You Need to Know About VOCs
WLLW identifies the health risks associated with VOC exposure and provides actionable strategies for reducing them at home for a healthier living environment.
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Mold Matters: Health, Prevention and Remediation, Part 3
In the final part of this series, we explore how to tackle mold when it is discovered and how to prevent it from making a comeback.
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Mold Matters: Health, Prevention and Remediation, Part 2
Part Two of this series covers the measures you can take to prevent mold from taking hold in the home.
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Mold Matters: Health, Prevention and Remediation, Part 1
In Part One of this series, we explore the impacts of mold, some common types to look out for and its effects on health.
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Spring Cleaning For a Healthy Home
The renewal of seasons offers the perfect opportunity to deep clean our living spaces; to eliminate the dirt and debris we can see but, even more importantly, the invisible pollutants we can't.