He's says he's seen cases where home owners try to retrofit their insulation for energy efficiency and end up having to tear it all out and start over because they hadn't
considered healthy air exchanges and letting a building breathe.
Not exact matches
With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate,
healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh
air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are
considered the «happiest people on the planet».
They did not
consider that outside
air might actually contain properties — namely diverse and beneficial microbes — that could make it
healthier than inside
air.
This past month,
air pollution in Chinese cities has regularly been two, three, even four times this emergency threshold (and up to 40 times levels the WHO
considers healthy).
Engineer Robert Bean at
Healthy Heating describes the common problem: People go out and buy the big Wolf or Viking stove, stick the big hood on top and don't
consider how much
air is being sucked out.
According to the company (based on information from the World Health Organization and the EPA), it might be better for people to track the
air quality around them instead of focusing on their fitness trackers, as some 92 % of the world's population lives in places where the
air pollution exceeds the levels
considered to be «
healthy», and even indoor
air quality can be worse than outside
air quality.