Healthy Homes For You

Part 1 - Why is clean indoor air important?Part 2 - Sources of Indoor Air PollutionPart 3 - How poor indoor air quality affects your healthPart 4 - Solutions...Creating Healthy Indoor Air inside our homes Part 1 - Why is clean indoor air important? Americans spend an average of 90% of our lives i...

In my last Blog Post I wrote about the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) 2007 update to the the "Toxics Release Inventory"  (TRI). Hazardous materials releases that must be reported to USEPA are listed in the TRI database.I entered my home zipcode in the TRI datase last week...

The United States Environmental Protection agency (USEPA) recently announced their 2007 update of chemical release report information.  Their on-line database is called the "Toxics Release Inventory"  (TRI). The TRI database tracks chemical releases that must be reported by the Emergency Planning...

Have you ever discovered household chemicals in a home that you listed or that your Buyer wants to purchase?  Garden pesticides, weed killers, drain cleaners, paint, chlorine bleach, laundry detergents, oven cleaners, solvents, batteries, electronic wastes, and automotive fluid are just some of t...

You are probably familiar with the Eskaton name as theleading provider of senior housing and social services in Northern California.  I had the pleasure of attending Eskaton's VIP Grand Opening Event last week to show off their new National Demonstration Home.  Eskaton's National Demonstration ho...

There are a few times when it's just not cool to flush the toilet! Here are the top Seven examples when not to flush the toilet...(the important stuff is at the end!) 7.  When your child is playing in the toilet... 6.   When you wallet falls into the toilet.. 5.  When you use your toilet to mail ...

It looks like the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is really cracking down on failure to notify renters and buyers of possible lead exposure.  The USEPA fined a San Francisco based landloard $25,000 for not providing lead disclosures to tennants who lived in pre-1978 housing ...