Trane Introduces New Wellsphere™ Digital Indoor Environmental Quality Management Solutions for Smarter, Healthier Spaces
Indoor air quality dashboard with real-time data and insights helps building owners monitor, manage and improve the health and efficiency of indoor spaces SWORDS, Ireland, December 20, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator – is introducing new digital indoor environmental quality (IEQ) management solutions that provide building owners and […]
Arkansas Repertory Theatre Announces Extensive Ventilation Systems Enhancements To Facility
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre is excited to announce sweeping enhancements to the ventilation and filtration systems throughout the building. With major support from the Windgate Foundation, the Estate of Patricia Holifield, the Estate of Judy Tenenbaum, Mary & Jim Wohlleb, and numerous individual donors, the Arkansas Rep was able to make vast improvements this winter […]
Omicron Spread Hits ‘Mind-Boggling’ Pace In King County
SEATTLE — King County continues to break unwanted pandemic records, with daily case counts fueled by the highly-infectious omicron variant now numbering in the thousands and hospitalizations reaching new highs. Dr. Jeff Duchin, the health officer for King County, hosted his first COVID-19 briefing of the new year on Friday afternoon, outlining the latest trends […]
Change begins: 49 contaminated sites received $1 billion to begin cleanup | Politics
After decades of toxic waste affecting local towns, Martinsville has received federal funds to begin the cleanup of Superfund sites in 2022. Photo by Maroš Markovič from Pexels. Martinsville and 49 other Superfund sites received a $1 billion investment from the $3.5 billion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, passed by Pres. Joseph Biden. “For more than 100 […]
Seattle’s Heating Oil Tax: A Missed Opportunity for Environmental Justice
by Tushar Khurana In September 2019, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed a law that would tax home heating oil sold within the city and could eventually require residents to upgrade or decommission their heating oil tanks by 2028. The legislation was introduced to meet the City’s climate goals by hastening the transition to cleaner electric […]
What Are the Health Effects of Air Conditioning?
In response to global warming, human beings have been forced to adapt in response to the long-term warming trend. Long-term warming is concomitant with severe weather events such as heatwaves, cold spells, extreme rainfalls, or storms. One adaptation to extreme heat events is the installation of air conditioning (along with heating and ventilation) in homes […]
Returning for spring semester – UGA Today
Vaccines, face masks strongly encouraged for faculty, staff and students Faculty, staff and students are returning to campus at a time when cases of COVID are once again on the rise in the local community, state, nation and world. The Omicron variant is highly transmissible, rapidly overtaking the Delta variant as the dominant strain of […]
St. John Properties Founder Edward St. John On Sustainable Philosophy – Commercial Observer
Baltimore-based St. John Properties, one of the mid-Atlantic region’s largest privately held commercial real estate firms, has beefed up its sustainability efforts at all of its properties. Edward St. John, founder and chairman of St. John Properties — which just celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021 — noted that the company prefers to initiate portfolio-wide […]
Kiggins Theatre screens classic film that takes on Hollywood
It’s still hard to know how to feel about indoor entertainment, indoor gatherings, indoor air. Everyone’s pandemic-risk calculations are different. Just before Christmas, I attended the phenomenal “Beyond Van Gogh” immersive experience, and subsequently bought surprise tickets for my family. Score! The perfect experience-not-thing holiday gift. Omicron arrived with a thud about two seconds later, […]
Omicron has arrived, here’s how to prepare for a COVID-19 case in the home
This time two years ago, many Australians were organising their bushfire go-bag; a kit of emergency items set aside to ensure families were able to evacuate safely at a moments notice. We’re now facing a different disaster: a growing COVID-19 outbreak that has seen cases around the country skyrocket to previously unfathomable numbers. And like bushfires, […]