How Does Indoor Air Quality Affect Your Home?
Indoor Air Quality Let’s clear the air! Learning more about indoor air quality and how you can control pollutants within your home can help reduce your risk of indoor health concerns. Is the quality of your indoor air negatively impacting your family’s health? Health Effects When you’ve been exposed to pollutants, health effects can often show up shortly after. Some symptoms may include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat. Additional symptoms may include headaches, dizziness and fatigue.These immediate effects are generally short-term and treatable. Long-term exposure from indoor pollutants can be more serious. For instance, after repeated [...]
Green Home Improvements.
America has embraced the concept and reality of greener living in a big, big way. Not that we’re where we want to be in terms of energy conservation and cleaning up the atmosphere, but we’ve made giant strides in recent years while momentum continues to grow for even greater accomplishments. Along with the green energy movement has come some very specific product and service innovations and even a whole new language. As such, we’re dedicating this blog to defining a few terms from the newer and still developing green living lexicon. Home Energy Audit – Energy audits are conducted to [...]
Make Earth Day a Green Day in Omaha and Council Bluffs
Have you ever searched the web for significant dates for any particular month? Well, for April, the are more 77 special days of observance, to be exact, including these all-time favorites: Tweed Day, Sorry Charlie Day, Ex-Spouse Day, and – who could ever forget – National Shrimp Scampi Day. Want a good laugh? Look up the rest. Earth Day is celebrated each year at home and abroad as a reminder of the sacred trust that’s been placed in our collective hands: the preservation, protection, and nurturing of planet earth. Whether it’s today or any time soon, here are just a [...]
Is Your Home Eco-Friendly? Tips for a Greener Living Space
Our web site has loads of suggestions on green plumbing, heating and cooling tips. Go going green goes way beyond that. So what I’d like you to do is a give us a few suggestions of your own that we can add to our web site.We’re especially looking for things you’ve thought of and put into practice on your own, heard from a friend, etc. All the “good stuff” will be added to our web site, including your name (provided we have your permission to do so.) Green Home Improvements That Make a Difference Want to make your home more [...]