Healthy Homes

Healthy Homes Logo Most people spend over 90% of their time indoors. Your home is a very important environment where you and your family may spend much of your time. This brochure offers ways to make your home a healthy place. It includes information on indoor and outdoor air quality, pesticides, toxic household products, mold, tobacco smoke, radon, drinking water contaminants and making your home “green”. It has a little information about a lot of different topics and links to web sites to learn more.

Indoor Air Quality
First and secondhand smoke, radon, carbon monoxide (CO), organic vapors or volatile organic compounds (VOCs), mold, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)... more

Staying Healthy Indoors: Toxics
Asbestos, lead, mercury, drinking water contaminants, pesticides and toxic household products... more

10 Ways to Make Your Home Healthier

Air Quality
Ozone, airborne particles, contaminated soil, ultraviolet radiation, temperatures extremes, air quality forecast
... more

Go Green at Home
Reuse, recycle, recycle electronics, composting, household hazardous waste, pressure treated wood ... more

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