Cleaner indoor air improves cognition and productivity, reduces the spread of other airborne diseases, protects against outdoor air pollutants such as smog and wildfire smoke, and decreases the number of environmental triggers for conditions like asthma and allergies.
Learn about creating healthy homes
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Healthy Home Videos
From our friends at YourAirMatters, they have created these short, sharable, enjoyable, deeply researched videos.
Green cleaning, CO2 detectors, radon, lead, home moisture, non-toxic pest traps, mold, smoke, chimney
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Explore a Virtual Home
The EPA has created a virtual interactive Healthy Home Tool-House designed to help you create a healthy home - room by room. This tool can be your guide finding any health hazards in your home.
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Healthy Homes are Well Maintained
Taking care of the place you live helps create a home you can thrive in. Here are some resources to help you out.
Seasonal Maintenance Check List by Fanny Mae
Autumn Healthy Home Check list from NCHH
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10 Principles of a Healthy Home
The National Center For Healthy Housing has 10 Principles of a healthy home. Learn more here
Well Ventilated, Dry, Safe, Clean, Well Maintained, Pest Free, Free of Contaminates, Thermally Controlled, Accessible, and Affordable
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Green Cleaning Recipes
Green cleaning is using safe, simple and highly effective products to clean.
Healthier Living Starts at Home from WA DOE
Green Cleaning - Pierce County
Green Cleaning Recipe's- Women's Voices of the Earth
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Look for the Safer Choice Logo
While it’s easy to make your own cleaners sometimes we do need to buy cleaners. Especially in commercial cleaning. Our EPA the SaferChoice program designed to help you find safer cleaners. Their Designed for the Environment helps you find safer disinfectants. Go Fragrance Free!