Indoor & Outdoor Style

Tag archive for ‘EPA’

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  Do It Yourself Projects To Help You Get Your House Ready For The Holiday Season

  Bathrooms, D.I.Y., General, Holiday Decor, Home Improvement, Indoor Decor, Kitchens

  If your home is in a need of a few updates, then the winter months are a perfect time to focus on modernizing your home without renovating your budget. There are a number of do-it-yourself projects that can help you prepare the kitchen and powder room for your next get-together.

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  Make Your Home Clean & Green

  Cleaning & Organizing, Green Living, Home Improvement, Indoor Decor

  Is your house really clean, or have you traded dirt and germs for caustic and toxic chemicals found in most conventional cleaning products?













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  Is the Air You Breathe at Home Healthy?

  Climate Control, Green Living, Indoor Decor

  In­door air can con­tain virus­es, dust mites, formalde­hyde, radon, pet dan­der and volatile or­gan­ic com­pounds (VOCs), pol­lu­tants that ag­gra­vate al­ler­gies. But in un­der­stand­ing four key air qual­i­ty com­po­nents, Amer­i­cans can en­sure a healthy, sus­tain­able home.

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  It’s Time to Clean House With an Air Purifier

  Climate Control, Family Rooms

  According to the American Lung Association’s 2005 State of the Air report, more than 152 million Americans, or 52 percent of the population, breathe dirty air.

  Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency ranks poor indoor air quality as a top five environmental risk to public well-being? Less than 20 percent of Americans believe that indoor air can be as polluted as outdoor air. Yet a home’s indoor air quality can be five times worse.