Wildfire Survivors Could Face Higher Cancer Risk – Consumer Health News
MONDAY, May 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Wildfires, like the one currently raging in New Mexico, are known to cause upticks in breathing issues and heart attacks in their immediate wake for folks who live nearby. Now, new Canadian research shows that these fires may also increase risk for lung and brain cancer over time. […]
Newark Custodians Gain 30% Pay Raise
Cintas Corp. has named Lydell Henderson the 2022 Cintas Custodian of the Year. Henderson, a custodian from Presidential Park Elementary School in Middletown, New York, has always gone above and beyond in his job, even performing the Heimlich maneuver on a student who was choking in the cafeteria. More than 1,500 students and staff celebrated […]
4 Unexpected Ways To Refresh Your Home’s Atmosphere
OK, re-painting your walls takes a bit more effort than a spritz of room spray; but if you’re up to the task, it’s a great way to enhance a soothing or energizing space. “We interact with color constantly—knowingly and unknowingly. It’s such a beautiful, powerful tool that we all have that we kind of forget […]
Arthaland unveils Lucima model units
Envisioned to be the first quadruple-certified sustainable high-rise residential condominium in the country, Lucima by Arthaland and ARCH Capital unveiled its model units which was timed with the completion of Cebu Exchange last April 22, 2022. Arthaland’s Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing Operations Oliver L. Chan, Vice President for Technical Services Edgar V. […]
Restrictions on indoor and outdoor NO2 emissions to reduce disease burden for pediatric asthma in China: A modeling study
Introduction Air pollution is one of the top five risk factors for disease burden around the world according to the latest estimates from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study.1 Murray C.J.L. Aravkin A.Y. Zheng P. et al. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic […]
Calloway County signs contract for facility energy efficiency upgrades | News
MURRAY – Calloway County Fiscal Court signed a $997,000 energy savings performance contract with Energy Systems Group, LLC (ESG), a leading energy services provider, to design and implement comprehensive energy and infrastructure improvements in four county buildings. These measures will result in approximately $44,000 annually in energy, water, sewer, and operational savings. The project scope […]
Brisbane daycare The Gap Cubbyhouse Montessori taps Zeplin and Thinxtra for clean air tech – Hardware
The Gap Cubbyhouse Montessori in Brisbane has used a new Internet of Things (IoT) deployment to improve the air quality in its childcare centres, tapping two Australian companies for the deployment. Thinxtra and Zeplin were engaged by the school to deploy indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring devices to measure carbon dioxide (CO2) levels to mitigate […]
The hot-button issue of air conditioners
It is ironic that air conditioning, the widely used cooling technology, will actually make the climate hotter. According to World Economic Forum estimates, greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioning will cause a 0.5-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures by the end of the century. Also Read By 2050 the number of room air conditioners globally […]
A Breath of Fresh Thinking
The air we breathe in large industrial work environments is often contaminated by pollutants, allergens, toxins, and more. And workplace air quality is an important issue to workers today. Workplace Air Quality Survey* Findings: ~75% of workers have concerns over the indoor air quality of their workplace. 89% of employees surveyed agreed workplace air quality […]
Environmental influence on transmission, 28 April 2020 (updated 2 May 2020)
SAGE – Environmental and Modelling Group Executive summary 1. We consider transmission through airborne, droplet and contact routes and consider the evidence relating to time spent in an environment, distance to the source (2 metres rule), transmission on surfaces and ventilation as a mitigating factor. This paper is based on evidence available as at 26 […]