Tag: Volatile Organic Compounds

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  5 Zero-VOC Interior Paints for a Freshly-Renovated, Healthy Home

  For your next renovation project, avoid dangerous chemicals with these five paints -- minus the chemical-laden VOCs.

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  Ask Pablo: What's The Most Environmentally Friendly Way to Paint My Fence?

  Image credit: Melanie Cook, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: My fence is in desperate need of some attention. I want to know, what is the most environmentally friendly way to make it look good again? Do I use paint or stain, or is there

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  California Paves the Way for Lower-VOC Cleaning Products to Reduce Smog

  Household cleaning products in the U.S. might soon be a little greener, thanks to a new rule in California that will require companies to reformulate products so they contain fewer volatile organic compounds, or

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  Plants Clean Up More Air Pollution Than Previously Thought

  Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean

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  Ask Pablo: How Bad Is Memory Foam?

  Dear Pablo: How bad is memory foam for the planet and human health?

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  Elizabeth Grossman Chases Toxic Molecules Through Our Bodies and Around the Globe

  If, in the United States, you happen to decided you'd like to earn your PhD in chemistry, you may notice that at no point are you required to take a course in toxicology. This is partly the reason we're now being assaulted by a growing mob of dangerous

• Apple's Greener MacBook, Celebrating Green Holidays, and Recycled Halloween Costumes

  Apple has greened its MacBook, much to Greenpeace's delight. Is the iPod next?

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  The Alter Eco Touch Lands on $3.5 Million Sustainable Home in Los Feliz

  Got three million and change? Get in line. The hottest eco-friendly home on the market is a $3.5 million, LEED Platinum, 1920s Spanish stunner recently renovated by Adrian Grenier's go-to green expert Richard Byrd of

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  Home Detox Improves "Real Age"

  Here's a fun, little game: Wanna find out what your years of late-night clubbing and social-smoking have done to your health? Yikes, on second thought... Well, the RealAge.com will take you through a series of questions on

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  Bamboo Wood Flooring from Smith & Fong Earns FSC Certification

  Awhile back, when TreeHugger Lloyd asked if bamboo flooring was really TreeHugger green, he noted that the lack of chain of custody certification made it tough to tell whether or not the bamboo came from sustainable sources. There's no arguing that

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  Can Design Make a Difference?

  This is the question asked by Orange22 Design Lab's Blank Canvas Project, who commissioned some big-time designers to lend their talents and leverage social change. Each designer will create a new edition of Orange22's indoor-outdoor Botanist furniture

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  BuyGreen: Desks and Workstations

  The right desk is an essential part to any green workplace; it has a small footprint, so it doesn't take up too much space; its just the right size to allow you to spread out, without getting cluttered; and it has a place for everything you need, so

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  VOCs: Volatile Organic Compounds, Indoor Air Quality and Respiratory Health

  Getty Images Volatile organic compounds: something's in the air You can't see them, but they're all around us. They aren't listed as ingredients on the objects we bring in our home, but they're often there. They're volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, a

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  How to Go Green: Rentals

  Greening your home is one of the most important steps you can take towards living a greener life, yet so much of the advice on sustainable homes is written with the home-owner in mind. What about those of us who rent? Installing insulation, erecting

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  What's So Great About Bamboo?

  Bamboo has blossomed with the green movement, going from Panda chow to material extraordinaire in a few short years; we've seen it used in just about everything: flooring, anti-microbial bedding, and notebook computers, not

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  The Celebrity Minute: High-Profile Moms Endorse Q Collection Junior

  TreeHugger loves Q Collection's combination of carefully considered sustainability characteristics and ultra-sleek, modern style. They knocked our socks off with their collection of furniture and rocked our world with Q Collection Junior, which applies

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  EcoDomo: Recycled Leather Tiles for Flooring, Wallcovering

  TreeHugger knows that all leather is not created equal, but there are ways to do it greener than the conventional chromium-tanning process. One of those greener ways to use the remarkably durable material is to recycle it, by using industrial scraps

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  Verdant Vocations: A Dentist?

  Here's the first in a series of posts about that third of our day spent beavering away at our chosen craft.