Hydration Calculator: How Much Water Do You Need to Drink a Day?
What Factors Affect Fluid Needs? Various factors can increase or decrease the amount of fluid your body needs to function at its best. Birth Sex Compared with people born female, those born male generally need more fluid to support their increased body mass, lower average body fat, and increased calorie burn each day. Body […]
Cleaning tips: Lynsey Crombie’s 75p bicarbonate of soda cleaning tip – ‘remove stains’
The cleaning expert, Lynsey Crombie, who regularly appears on ITV’s This Morning to detail her tips and trick, uses denture tablets for lots of household jobs. It also is gently abrasive, gently scraping dirt from surfaces without damaging the surfaces. Citric acid, another ingredient of the denture tablets, is a great ingredient on its own […]
Hybrid VRF gains vertical flexibility
UK: Mitsubishi Electric has added a vertical branch controller to offer greater design flexibility of design for its City Multi Hybrid VRF air conditioning system. First introduced in 2013, the Hybrid VRF combines VRF and chiller technologies. It uses R32 refrigerant between the outdoor condensing unit and an indoor Hybrid Branch Controller (HBC). From here, […]
Taxi drivers protest Clean Air Zone plans in Bolton for second time
BOLTON town centre was brought to a halt in a second round of protests led by taxi drivers. Around 100 vehicles and plenty more cabbies demonstrated outside Bolton Town Hall against the Clean Air Zone charges which they are due to incur as of 2023. There is also concern that, in order to avoid the […]
Railway staff sacrifice Spring Festival for passengers’ journey home
At 8:30 in the morning, Hou Dongyao starts his busy day working in Zhengzhou East Railway Station in Zhengzhou, capital city of central China’s Henan Province. As a shift supervisor, Hou begins with the morning roll call and work assignment. Roughly half an hour later, he rushes to the waiting rooms upstairs to meet his […]
Earth911 Podcast: Rich Razgaitis on the Future of Drinking Water
The availability of safe, fresh drinking water will become a more pressing issue as the climate crisis progresses. Our guest today, Rich Razgaitis, started FloWater, a maker of water refill stations that can purify local water, allowing people to refill bottles safely and quickly. The company also sells reverse-osmosis purified water in recyclable, reusable aluminum […]
Study: First Nations children’s health impacted by poor housing conditions
A study on indoor air quality and housing characteristics in isolated First Nations communities found elevated rates of respiratory infections and wheezing in young children, which authors associate with poor conditions within their homes. Researchers analyzed factors that could affect respiratory health in four First Nations communities in the Sioux Lookout region of northern Ontario, […]
CORT turns to IoT to create healthier, safer community housing
Tether’s IoT devices and software, powered by the Thinxtra 0G Network, enable indoor air quality monitoring for improved living conditions across hundreds of buildings. CORT Community Housing is creating healthier and safer homes with indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring technology from New Zealand company Tether, powered by Thinxtra’s Internet of Things (IoT) 0G network. CORT […]
NCOC shortens isolation period to five days
People sitting outside a COVID-19 PCR testing facility. Photo: Geo.tv/ file The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) has officially curtailed the quarantine period for COVID-19 patients — which previously was at least 10 days — to five days. The NCOC’s decision comes nearly a month after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shortened […]
First Nations kids’ health impacted by poor housing conditions
A study on indoor air quality and housing characteristics in isolated First Nations communities found elevated rates of respiratory infections and wheezing in young children, which authors associate with poor conditions within their homes. Researchers analyzed factors that could affect respiratory health in four First Nations communities in the Sioux Lookout region of northern Ontario, […]