Cleaner Indoor Air Quality Can Help You Sleep Better
Good indoor air quality is key to a good night’s sleep and overall healthy living, so do what you can reduce off-gassing furniture and paint and get your HVAC vents cleaned…
Good indoor air quality is key to a good night’s sleep and overall healthy living, so do what you can reduce off-gassing furniture and paint and get your HVAC vents cleaned…
California ain’t just sunshine and palm trees: overcrowding, pollution & climate change is creating a serious health & environmental crisis there.
Backyard firepits provide a nice ambience but neighbors wonder whether the wood smoke is compromising their air quality especially as they leave windows open during the warmer months.
What can we do to help prevent wildfires as summer approaches?
More wildfire is no doubt the result of global warming, which is causing warmer and drier conditions across already arid landscapes across the American West and elsewhere.
Crackling fireplaces are a wonderful way to add warmth and ambience, but they are relatively inefficient devices for heating the home. Most fireplaces convert just 5%-10% of the burning wood’s energy into useful heat. A fireplace can even have a “negative efficiency” effect when there is no fire burning and the damper doors are left […]
Ten years out the health impacts of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers in NYC are still being felt with an increase in cancers & other illnesses.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is a fascinating and humbling up-close look at the earth’s underbelly, plus you have the big island’s rainforests and beaches at your beck and call…
Goats are increasingly being used to keep down grasses and other tinder that can help start or exacerbate wildfires.
The San Francisco International Airport & UC Berkeley have called in the local forest fire prevention squad: a team of sure-footed goats…