Everyday Toxins: a Simple Guide to Gloves Free Kitchen
Are you still wearing gloves to protect yourself from chemicals in the kitchen? Or perhaps worse, are you NOT wearing gloves to protect yourself from chemicals? Either way, you must…
Feng Shui: How Your Home Can Affect Your Physical and Emotional Health
Beauty may be only skin deep, but the seemingly superficial matter of home decor, from carpet to ceiling fans, can dramatically shape your well-being on a number of fronts. Accordingly,…
Buying Bad – How Not to Buy a Meth Lab
You don’t have to be terminally ill to run a meth lab but it’s probably not a bad idea. If you’re not already terminally ill, without some fairly serious precautions,…
Know the ROI Before Purchasing Energy Efficient HVAC Units
Although the current national average life expectancy of residential furnaces is between 16 and 20 years, many homeowners aren’t waiting to their furnaces to stop working before they look for…
Biofuel as Renewable Energy Resource to Homeowners?
Pollution is getting worse as time pass and we are already suffering from its negative effects. The harsh weather conditions, climate “weirdness” and the large hole of the ozone layer…
What Flame Retardants Have to do With Your Prospects to Reproduce?
We all know by now that toxins in our home can affect our general health but did you know that flame retardants in the house can lower your chances to…
Non-toxic and Sustainable Materials Tour at the Green Pika
Let’s face it, no home is truly green without supporting the health of its inhabitants. With a rise of cases where more and more people, and especially our children, are…
What Your House is Really Feeding Your Lungs?
“There’s a sound outside the front door… And I know it’s just the wind… But it makes her snuggle up just a little bit closer… And it starts things happening…
Be Aware of What Are You Breathing this Holiday Season
Bring on the home decorations and holiday get togethers – let’s do it green and healthy. The holiday season is here in earnest! A couple years ago I went to…
What’s a Green Home and Why Do We Care?
All the TV shows, all the magazines and all the advice from our environmentally conscious friends about green living can really make our heads spin. Is your floor off-gassing VOCs,…