How to make our indoor air healthier

Is your home’s indoor air unhealthy?

We usually think of air pollution as outdoors coming from a power plant or vehicle emissions,
but the air inside our home can be 2-5 times more unhealthy leading to allergies and asthma.
Here you will find resources to improve your indoor air quality (IAQ) and explore:

- How does the air in my home become unhealthy? How will unhealthy air affect me?

- How can I test to find out what indoor air quality problems may be in my home?

- What are indoor allergy triggers? How can I make my indoor air healthier?

Join in and share your experiences. We all want to breathe easier and become healthier.

Plants as Air Purifiers

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Indoor air quality improved by a spider plant.

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12 years ago Karen Wintress

Indoor air quality improved by a spider plant.

ALERT! Here’s what happened. NASA researched ways to clean air in space stations, and contacted Dr. Wolverton, an environmental engineer, to help study air-filtering plants. In addition to absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen as all plants do, there were several Read More →

Indoor Air Quality 11

12 years ago Karen Wintress

Plants can purify the air in our home.

ALERT! Here’s what happened. This is actually a cautionary tale of what could happen. Some house plants are known to filter impurities such as formaldehyde out of indoor air. But not all plants can serve as air filters, and Read More →

Plants can improve your home’s indoor air quality.

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12 years ago Karen Wintress

Plants can improve your home’s indoor air quality.

Do you want to live with healthier indoor air quality? Well, there are many chemicals that we bring unknowingly into our homes, but fortunately houseplants can significantly clean the air inside our homes. A study conducted by NASA Read More →