Can buildings help keep you healthy?
Recent EPA studies indicate that exposure to air pollutants may be two to five times higher indoors than outside. Air pollutants can affect all buildings equally and have many sources, including pets, tobacco products, gas cooking stoves, building materials, paints, cleaning products and pesticides.
Exposure to air pollutants can lead to negative health effects like asthma, irritation of the eyes and throat, headaches, dizziness, fatigue and allergic reactions.
Here are a few important things to consider:
* Keep it smoke-free. At home, banish smoking indoors and if it hasn’t already been done, ask your boss to do the same at work. Consider doing business with retailers that don’t allow smoking inside or near their businesses in order to keep their customers safe from tobacco smoke, a harmful air pollutant.
* Consider LEED certification. Do your research to find businesses that have pledged to be carbon neutral and are building LEED certified stores…
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