“I tell my green-building friends that engineered woods are really bad for the indoor environment. ‘Green’ doesn’t necessarily mean healthy. Green means conserving energy. You start sealing up the building, and you lower air exchange. Then you put all these engineered wood products indoors,” said Corsi.
“Eventually the occupants of those building tend not to feel very good.”
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/19/HOGDC6LU141.DTL
Edited 5/19/2004 10:31 pm ET by CaseyR
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I briefly looked over the article, which seemed to concentrate on what our possessions bring, unwanted, into our homes.
What I didn't see was the importance of air changes. It's far easier to deal with frequent air changes, bringing in fresh air and exhausting polluted air, than trying to buy nothing with toxins. Even this computer stank when I unpacked it. Wanna do without?
I've dealt with clients who were chemically sensitive to practically everything. And still living in a house that didn't provide the fresh air that would have greatly eased their condition. Our ventilation code here is considered complied if there's an operable window. Hardly sufficient when the climate has at least 2 seasons, half a year, when opening windows would be abnormal.
Don't want engineered woods? That's going to be one very expensive kitchen, or simply planks hung on the wall. With .5ACH we weren't bothered by the Melamine, or the computer, or the carpet. More sensitive than us? Bump that up to 1ACH. These fans are tiny and the whole system doesn't require much. It's a simple solution.
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
"Last year the Mount Sinai School of Medicine tested 2,500 people -- who don't work with chemicals -- for more than 200 industrial chemicals. The tests found 167 chemicals in their bodies, with an average of 91 chemicals per volunteer. Fifty-three can cause cancer, and the others are linked to an array of health problems affecting the nervous, reproductive, hormonal, cardiovascular and immune systems."
I wonder if one of those chemicals was sodium choride?
It is an industrial chemical and it is linked to cardiovascular problems.
It is an industrial chemical and it is linked to cardiovascular problems
Oh yes, then there's particulates from piper negra, known to cause GI (gastro intestinal) problems in some hominids; and implicated as a casusal agent in some rodential sarcomas . . . Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)