In about a month, we will be a family of five. We have struggled for a long time about what this means for us with regards to vehicles. We’ve always prefered smaller cars and were not looking forward to possibly needing a minivan or SUV. Additionally, we’d been hoping for a long time that our [...]
Filed under: Environment, VOC on April 17th, 2010 | No Comments »
I went to a presentation last night on summer air quality in my city. Apparently, we have failed federal air standards for the past three years due to our high amounts of ozone (carbon monoxide, lead, particulate matter, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants were in compliance). Ozone is produced when volatile organic compounds (VOCs) mix [...]
Filed under: Air quality, Environment, VOC on July 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
We just tried our first zero VOC paint. The paint base has no VOCs and the colorant is also free of VOCs. There aren’t many paints on the market that use a no-VOC colorant so I was really excited to try it. I thought the paint was great. It covered well and I was happy [...]
Filed under: Air quality, Environment, VOC on June 3rd, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I ran into a neighbor at the local pub over the weekend and mentioned that we had been painting over the weekend. She said she was going to paint soon too and we started talking about it. I mentioned that the low-VOC paints we had used were on sale until the end of the month, [...]
Filed under: Air quality, Chemicals, Environment, VOC on March 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
This week we move in to our new home. We have been waiting for it to be built for months now and are very anxious to get settled. Posts may be a bit sporadic for the next week or two, and the site may even be down for a bit while our server is moved.
Since [...]
Filed under: Air quality, Environment, VOC on October 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
Did you know that according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air quality has been shown to be 2-5 times (even up to 100 times) more polluted than outdoor air? Thanks to airtight homes, harsh cleaning chemicals, and houses filled with substances that emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other pollutants, our indoor [...]
Filed under: Air quality, Chemicals, VOC on September 5th, 2007 | 3 Comments »