How Your House and Office Makes or Breaks Your Health

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Yung Red612 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:36:08 GMT

I wish I could make my hose cleaner but i stay in a rented apartment so I cant make changes to it

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Haven — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:04:35 GMT

What are the pros and cons of electric ranges vs gas ranges? Does any one make an electric that has lower EMF than other brands?

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Sean Uisce — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:16:50 GMT

Those into the BauBiologie principles might be interested in the work of Ireland's Peter Cowman. www.livingarchitecturecentre.com (his "about" page). He got into living architecture when he realised that he, as a qualified architect, he had no idea of how to design a house for people!

From there he began to explore what he calls "the vernacular tradition" and came to realise that we are operating from an unhealthy mind/emotional place when we consider creating our shelters; and it is this that leads us to build unsustainabiliy. That unhealthy mindset is fed by our own unresolved insecurities around our own deaths and leads us to create poor spaces for ourselves - because they feed the egos need to be protected from death and isolate our spirits from Nature.

He also cautions against the 'false sustainability' - because if one examines most modern use of the term "sustainable" it is actually just more ways of sustaining "the economy" by keeping people in debt and the construction industry going (at least that seems to be the approach here in Ireland anyhow).

Encouraging people to take control of their own building (the vernacular tradition) required that he develop a method that other people could follow. He now offers that through is sustainble shelter-maker course: www.livingarchitecturecentre.com (good video clips of his thinking on that page).

No bull with this man... he just talks it as he finds it (whether that's within or without). Particularly interesting I found were his video diaries about the experiences he encountered while building his own shelter. I'm looking forward to doing a course with him - after which I'll be embarking on my own shelter-making journey.

Reckon he and the BauBiologie folk would get on quite well.

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LORENLSMITHHughes — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:07:12 GMT

We are happy to have installed mexican clay tile on all floors, use electric base heaters, eliminated all chlorinated water, planted a forest of bamboo, and hope the bureaucrats let us plant hemp which will be a help to save the rain forests. I just read that the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper that requires no chemical leaching, is a renewable resource that improves the soil from which it grows. You would think a democrat congress would recind some laws passed that help only the industrial complex but sabotage the invironment. The president can't sign a bill that never reaches him.

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todd_binkleysbcglobal — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:23:33 GMT

Bau-Biologie principle #3 states: Housing shall be developed in a decentralized and loose manner interlaced with sufficient green space. This is appears to suggest that standard low-density suburban development is healthy. Planners throughout Europe, and increasingly, throughout America and elsewhere, are recognizing that the automobile dependency that such neighborhoods create substantially contributes to many of our society's most pressing health challenges: lack of exercise, and the obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease that result from it, asthma and other air-pollution-related illness, stress from long commutes, etc.

The healthiest place to live, as well as the least damaging to the environment, is in a condo or an apartment in a city, where you can walk to the local farmers market, ride your bike to work, and get fresh air, sunlight, physical exercise and serendipitous interactions with old friends and interesting strangers all at the same time.

Todd Binkley DC

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doces321 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:36:12 GMT

I agree with Vicki..

The excellent news is that while people are spreading the bau-biologie there are young people like my girl friend in college who is studying sustainable architecture which is environmentally friendly and economical. As for me the "health nut" among my friends i support all these ideas. In my generation (I'm in college) most of my acquaintences and friends are aware but not committed to learning about eating healthy and living different lifestyles... fortunately im not alone... there are young people worried and we will become the business people of tomorrow and make a change together with people that care. Hurrah to Dr. Mercola.com and community. May we grow in numbers and awareness... a healthy earth is a healthy human race!!

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queenbird — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:13:48 GMT

Has anybody heard that CFL is actually unhealthy?

I read the following on this website www.dirtyelectricity.ca

Ways to Avoid Excess Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields

12 Ways to Avoid Excess Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields and Radio Frequencies

1) Replace all the dimmer switches in your house with regular switches. Even when turned completely on full power a dimmer chops-off part of the electrical current, then it discards in the form of a strong electromagnetic field. Dimmer switches also create dirty electricity that can contaminate an entire home’s electrical wiring with dangerous high frequency energy.

2) Avoid installing low-voltage halogen, florescent tubes and energy-efficient compact fluorescent lighting (CLF). Virtually all create of these technologies create dirty electricity and at the same time throw a nasty electromagnetic field.

If these bulbs are giving off " dirty electricity " why are we being told to use them?

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tanya_marquette — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:43:10 GMT

btw, arsenic has been removed from pressure treated building materials. it was replaced with additional copper as a fungicide. presumably healthier. copper is used in gardens as a fungicide, too

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NieeMA — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:11:48 GMT

I love this video.

I hope we all get back into AromaTherapy. It is one way to clean and refresh the air and us.

NieeMA

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Kissamee — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:55:44 GMT

logical and reasonable. I always try to make my surroundings as personal and comfortable as possible. I think one of those desert tents of silk and hemp rugs from the mid-century technicolor movies.....

Kel

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Islander — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:24:56 GMT

I can understand this principle. My passive solar house has...

...a slate floor
...walls of old barnboard
...a massive chimneypiece/heat sink made of fieldstone from stone walls
...windows all along the south side that bring the outside in
...and lots of houseplants, and oh, how could I forget?
...three singing, talking birds!

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Russ Bianchi — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:32:39 GMT

We are what we eat, as well as where, and how, we live.

May Your Health Be GREAT, In 2008!

;-)

Uncle Russ

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mmc88121 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:29:06 GMT

Very true, I have a friend whose house is build with natural products, and I find visiting them very relaxing and energizing at the same time. I also have friend who live in trailers and they tend to have more health problems than those who live in the natural house.

Mary