Healthy House Institute

Castle Keepers House Cleaning, an industry leader in high performance, low impact cleaning solutions, has implemented Annihilare's OSG solution. In addition to your mattress' age, other factors such as dirt, allergen accumulation, moisture damage and chemical content of the components of the mattress are other things that need to be considered when making your decision to replace your mattress. A University of Melbourne researcher has found that common consumer products, including those marketed as 'green', 'all-natural', 'non-toxic', and 'organic', emit a range of compounds that could harm human health and air quality.

The Healthy House Institute® (HHI) provides consumers information to make their homes healthier. HHI strives to be the most comprehensive educational resource available for creating healthier homes. To this end, HHI treats the home like an ecosystem with many interrelated parts, covering topics in-depth such as air and water quality, building, remodeling and furnishing, cleaning and housekeeping, health and safety, ventilation, lighting, energy efficiency and more. Rather than preaching to the converted, HHI seeks to reach a mainstream educated consumer with credible information merging the best of 'green' with the best of healthier homes research, indoor environmental data, health and medical science, into a practical, timely, easily digestible but comprehensive message.

The term "Zero VOC" on product labelling - a designation historically used for paint and adhesives, but now finding its way onto cleaning products - is often a misnomer. Whomever you select, give him or her a copy of the complimentary HHI book - Healthy House Building for the New Millennium: A Design & Construction Guide - as a starting point. Highlights the many ways prefabrication is used to create almost-off-the-grid homes - houses that are not only environmentally preferable but often operate at nearly zero annual energy cost.

Good water is good for your home and appliances, too. A 2009 study commissioned by the Water Quality Research Foundation (WQRF) and conducted by the Battelle Memorial Institute found that adding a water softener helps water heaters and major appliances operate as efficiently as possible, while preventing clogs in showerheads, faucets, and drains. Tankless technology offers a solution to this every day headache: an endless supply of hot water that's also energy efficient. Following are questions and answers posed to HHI by Content That Works, a group "dedicated to helping local media and businesses thrive by creating high-quality editorial products that attract readers."

Looking to find a contractor to perform green & healthy construction or renovations? Do you find it difficult to find reputable builders and other residential services in your local area? Try Healthy House Institute's Home & Building Services Finder to discover and research green building services, LEED providers, and much more! To begin, simply enter your local zip or postal code in the search box below or browse our ever-growing directory of home & building services.

The term "Zero VOC" on product labelling - a designation historically used for paint and adhesives, but now finding its way onto cleaning products - is often a misnomer. But most of these ingredients are not disclosed to the public. Anything airborne that is now living, was once living, or was produced by something alive, and has the capacity to create negative health effects, is considered to be a biological contaminant. Air-quality testing can be helpful to understand what is wrong with your air, but since there are hundreds or thousands of possible pollutants, and testing for them all is impossible, a test result may be misleading.