"Creating Healthy Indoor Environments"

Joe Walters, President, Radec Air & Water Inc.

Joe will discuss the importance of a healthy indoor environment and provide solutions to improve the air quality in your own home.

Talk outline:

Living a lifestyle that supports sustainability often offers significant benefits such as better health and less stress due to a supportive community and healthy, organic food. This workshop explores the “transition to sustainability” by providing you with information and tools for setting priorities and allocating your valuable time and financial resources.

Philip Be'er, Be'er Necessities $39 - 1 eve - Th Jan 31, 2008, 1745-2200, (50305)

If you haven't installed it yet, you can get a very low VOC cold-pressed melamine coating applied to the MDF by Eco-Lumber Co-op. Unfortunately, if the MDF has been installed, there is not much you can do. It is true that it will swell if you use a latex paint on it. You will need to use a sealer. See the buildsmart directory (http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/buildsmart/Apps/searchResult.aspx?type=169&typeText=sealants) for low VOC alternatives.

1) The Healthy Home Inspections Testing and Services Inc.
Sig Jantzen
1015 Ironwork Passage,
Vancouver, V6H 3R4
604-738-7350
info@healthyhome.bc.ca
www.healthyhome.bc.ca

The Chemicals Health and Pregnancy (CHirP) study is looking for women who are less than 15 weeks pregnant to participate.

The CHirP study is addressing how certain environmental chemicals affect thyroid hormones during pregnancy. The chemicals being studied include flame retardants (PBDEs) and stain and water repellents (PFCs), which are common in homes and workplaces. Some of these chemicals leach out of household products and accumulate in human tissues.

On simple solutions to improve the health of your home: