Posts in Environmental toxins
Research: What makes smart and healthy buildings?

This paper examines key reasons as to why action should be taken include potential liability risks when technology is not implemented safely. International measures and guidelines for lower RFR exposure are highlighted. Practices are outlined and recommendations made to minimize the impact of RFR on public and environmental health in the design, construction and maintenance of safer, modern buildings.

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Why a biological space is beneficial for mother and child

Much of the focus is around the physical, mental, and emotional changes and challenges mothers can expect, and the whole development of the baby to look forward to. Less attention is paid to the factors in our personal spaces that can help or impede the desires and goals we have for a healthy mother and child, as well as the sort of nurturing spaces we want to set up for optimal heallth.

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Five studies you should know about environmental toxicity and your child's health

Childhood is an amazing time of rapid growth and development, and should be protected. But there’s accumulating evidence that the environment we live in is increasingly a threatening one for our most vulnerable. Even before babies are born, environmental pollutants, found in our personal spaces and daily items, can be causing developmental harm.

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Building Biology and Bau-Biologie: A quick history

Germany, along with many European nations, was left in ruins after World War II. In the subsequent years as it rapidly rebuilt its economy and infrastructure, it saw the growth of over industrialised and overpopulated cities and towns.

People also began to notice strange illnesses after the World War. One of these was a doctor named Hubert Palm. He noticed a pattern between the ailments his patients were coming in with and their living in housing built post WWII using the new “chemically enhanced” technologies.

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