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Cleaner Indoor Air Quality Can Help You Sleep Better

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer AFM, air, apartment, California, carcinogenic, carcinogens, chair, Chemical, chemicals, couch, Coway, filter, filtration, fire, flame, furniture, house, household, houseplant, houseplants, indoor, indoor air quality, inside, low, low-VOC, mattress, off-gas, offgas, office, paint, plant, plants, quality, retardant, Safecoat, VOC, volatile organic compounds

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…

Green Tech

4 Ways Solar Adds Value to Your Home

Erin Vaughan costs, ENERGY STAR, home, house, LEED, lower, lowers, National Bureau of Economic Research, real estate, reduced, rooftop, solar, Utility Bills

Solar adds value: adding photovoltaic panels to your roof makes your home worth more while lowering utility costs & helping battle climate change.

House & Home

Is Renting or Buying a Home More Eco-Friendly?

Megan Wild apartment, bank, buying, duplex, finance, home, house, HVAC, lease, loan, maintenance, mortgage, natural gas, own, owning, purchase, rent, renting, upkeep, work

Is renting or buying your home better for the environment? It depends on your tolerance for investment risk and more importantly, on the home in question.

House & Home

Chemical-Free Cleaning Solutions for Contemporary Kitchens

Erin Vaughan antibacterial, appliances, cabinets, cleaner, cleaning, Contemporary, Contemporary Kitchens, cooktop, cooktops, counter, detergent, dish, DIY, Environmental Working Group, EWG, glass, granite, green, greener, home, house, kitchen, Kitchens, marble, modern, modernize, oven, phthalates, sink, soap, sodium lauryl sulfate, stainless, washing, windows

Homeowners are discovering that chemical-free household cleaners can do just as good a job as their commercial chemical-laden counterparts in today’s contemporary kitchens.

Warming World

Climate Change: Does Your Congressperson Represent Your Views?

Sarah "Steve" Mosko Capitol, change, climate, climate change, coal, Congress, Democrat, denial, denier, global warming, Hill, hoax, house, industry, lawmakers, partisan, party, poll, Quinnipiac University, represent your views, Representative, Republican, skeptic, survey, Trump, TrumpWatch, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

The vast majority of Americans believe climate change is a clear and present danger — so why aren’t our Congresspersons doing anything to address it?

House & Home

6 Materials to Avoid in an Eco-Friendly Home

Hannah West bulb, CFL, ENERGY STAR, Forest Stewardship Council, home, house, HVAC, incandescent, LED, metal, R-value, roof, roofing, Sourced, sustainably, Wood

When you begin building or remodeling a home, you can choose materials that won’t create lasting harm to ecosystems or your family’s health…

House & Home

Cohousing: An Idea Whose Time Should Have Come

Ethan Goffman Blueberry Hill, co-housing, cohousing, Cohousing Association, community, Eastern Village, home, house, Neighborhood for Mindful Living, Potomac Vegetable Farms, Takoma Village

The contemporary American suburban community is wasteful, with cars for every individual and guest rooms, exercise rooms, weed eaters, snow-blowers and other equipment severely underused. With the planet under severe environmental stress and the average American using some four times their fair share of resources, wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to […]