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Interview: ecobeco Founder Brian Toll Talks Green Building & Remodeling

Ethan Goffman alternative energy, appliances, bath, bathroom, bathrooms, ecobeco, efficiency, energy, ENERGY STAR, EnergySTAR, flooring, green, home, insulation, kitchen, Maryland, Maryland Home Performance with Energy Star, paint, podcast, remodel, remodeling, Rockville, Zero Energy Ready Home

Interview: ecobeco Founder Brian Toll Talks remodeling old houses for energy efficiency, comfort and health and building new homes to greener standards.

Toxins & Pollution

Shiny Green Poison?

Ethan Goffman Canada, grass, invasive, lawn, Maine, Maryland, Montgomery County, Ogunquit, Ontario, pesticide, Rachel Carson, San Francisco, Silent Spring, species, Takoma Park, weed, weeds

An emerald-green lawn is a beautiful lawn. At least many Americans think so. Yet this kind of lawn, relying on heavy pesticide use to kill weeds, may have poison beneath its shiny surface. Pesticide exposure may increase the chances of cancer, cardiac disease, reproductive system problems, afflictions of the nervous system such as Parkinson’s disease […]

Toxins & Pollution

Wheezing, Nosebleeds, & Shortness of Breath

Ethan Goffman air pollution, asthma, Baltimore, Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, Clean Air Act, Earthjustice, Maryland, Maryland Department of Health, Sierra Club

In late 2014, the election of Larry Hogan as governor of Maryland, a Republican in a bright-blue state, came as something of a shock. One of Hogan’s first actions, in January of 2015 just after he was sworn in, was to halt a clean air regulation that limited the pollutants NOx, which leads to smog […]