Healthy Homes/Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)/General
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Energy
Green Building
Household Hazardous Waste
Mold
Pest Control

Healthy Homes/Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)/General
Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre
<http://www.aivc.org/>

American Indoor Air Quality Council
<http://www.iaqcouncil.org/>

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
<http://www.ashrae.org/>

BuildingScience.com
<http://www.buildingscience.com/>
Top ten stupid things that builders do - Joseph Lstiburek's, Ph.D., P.E.

Building Material Emissions Study - California Integrated Waste Management Board
<http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Publications/GreenBuilding/43303015.pdf>

California Indoor Air Quality Program
<http://www.cal-iaq.org> 

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
<http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/>

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Research Highlights
<http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/inpr/rehi/index.cfm>

Center for Disease Control and Prevention- Environmental Health
<http://www.cdc.gov/Environmental/>

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Common Sense Steps

<http://www.protectingourhealth.org/commonsense/commonsense.htm >

Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

EPA Healthy Indoor Painting Practices
<http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/456.pdf>

EPA Indoor Air Quality
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/>

EcoCity Cleveland
<http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/>

Healthy Building Network
<http://www.healthybuilding.net/>

Healthy Flooring Network
<http://www.healthyflooring.org/> 

Healthy Homes Partnership - USDA and HUD
<http://www.uwex.edu/healthyhome/>

Healthy House Institute
<http://www.healthyhouseinstitute.com/> 
Web home of John Bower, author of The Healthy House.

Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes
<http://www.montana.edu/wwwcxair/>

Household Products Database - National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
<http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm>  

Indoor Air Quality - Texas A&M University and AgriLife Extension
<http://fcs.tamu.edu/housing/healthy_homes/indoor_air_quality/index.php>

Indoor Environment Notebook
<http://web.bsu.edu/ien/>
IAQ questions answered by Thad Godish, Ph.D., Ball State University

Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering- University of Texas at Austin- Past and Ongoing Research Projects
<http://www.ce.utexas.edu/IGERT/projects.cfm>

Indoor Health and Productivity Project - National Science and Technology Council

<http://www.dc.lbl.gov/IHP/>

Institute of Inspection Cleaning & Restoration Certification
<http://www.iicrc.org/> 
Fire and flood restoration professional association.

International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
<http://www.isiaq.org/>

Inventory of European Research on the Indoor Environment (IERIE)
<http://wads.le.ac.uk/ieh/ierie/>

Master Home Environmentalist Exchange
<http://www.alaw.org/air_quality/master_home_environmentalist> 
Washington State American Lung Association 

MidAtlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center
<http://www.mehrc.org/>
Mold remediation and IAQ training

National Center for Healthy Housing
<http://www.centerforhealthyhousing.org/>
Formerly the National Center for Lead-Safe Housing. The Center seeks to develop and promote practical methods to protect children from residential environmental hazards while preserving the nation's stock of affordable housing.

National Center for Healthy Housing - Essentials in Healthy Homes Practitioner Training Materials and Bibliography
<http://www.healthyhomestraining.org/Practitioner/Materials.htm>

National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
<http://www.nibs.org/projects.html>

Restoration Industry Association
<http://www.ascr.org> 

Soap and Detergent Association
<http://www.sdahq.org/health/>

World Health Organization - Air Quality Guidelines
<http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/AIQ/activities/20050222_2> 

Assessment

Building Air Quality: A Guide for Building Owners and Facility Managers, EPA and NIOSH
<http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/baqtoc.html>

Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

Farm*A*Syst Home*A*Syst: Help Yourself to a Healthy Home
<http://www.uwex.edu/homeasyst>

Jim LaRue's Green Building Cookbook
<http://www.greenbuildingcookbook.info/>

NC and A&T State University Cooperative Extension - Home Moisture Audit Questions, Checklist, and Suggestions
<http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/wayne/fcs/Audit.pdf>

Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF)

California Electric and Magnetic Fields Program
<http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ehib/emf/>

EMF and Human Health
<http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop.html>
Medical College of Wisconsin

Electric and Magnetic Fields- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences- National Institute of Health
<http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/emf/> 
Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Program 

Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones and Health (UK)
<http://www.iegmp.org.uk/>

Micro Wave News
<http://microwavenews.com> 

Risk Evaluation, An Evaluation of the Possible Risks From Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMFs) From Power Lines, Internal Wiring, Electrical Occupations and Appliances- California EMF Program
<http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ehib/emf/RiskEvaluation/riskeval.html>

Energy
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
<http://www.aceee.org/index.htm> 

Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/crest/index.html>

Envirolink- The Online Environmental Community- Energy
<http://www.envirolink.org/topics.html?topicsku=2002109191036&topic=Energy&topictype=topic> 

Envirolink- Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
<http://www.envirolink.org/resource.html?itemid=636&catid=5> 

Home Energy Magazine
<http://homeenergy.org/index.html>

Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
<http://www.nesea.org/>

Rocky Mountain Institute
<http://www.rmi.org/>

United States Department of Energy
<http://www.energy.gov/index.htm>

United States Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
<http://www.eere.energy.gov/>

United States Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy- Your Home
<http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/>

Green Building

BuildingGreen.com
<http://www.buildinggreen.com/>

Building Material Emissions Study - California Integrated Waste Management Board
<http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Publications/GreenBuilding/43303015.pdf>

Building Products Manufacturers and Distributors
<http://home.earthlink.net/~dlombard/product.htm>

Center for the Built Environment
<http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/>

Center for Resourceful Building Technology
<http://www.crbt.org/>

Cleveland Green Building Coalition
<http://www.clevelandgbc.org> 

Coop America - Green Pages Online
<http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/greenpages/>

Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment,Green Design Institure, Carnegie Mellon
<http://www.eiolca.net/>

Energy Efficient Building Association
<http://www.eeba.org/>

Environmental Home Center
<http://www.environmentalhomecenter.com/home.shtml>

Green Building Discussion Group
<http://oikos.com/resources/maillist.html>

Green Building Research Cente, National Association of Home Builders
<http://www.nahbrc.org/index.aspx> 

GreenSeal
<http://www.greenseal.org/>

Health House Project- American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest
<http://www.healthhouse.org/>

Healthy Building Network
<http://www.healthybuilding.net/>

Household Products Database - National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
<http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm>

National Association of Home Builders, Green Building Page
<http://www.nahb.org/page.aspx/category/sectionID=222>

Smart Communities Network
<http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org/>

Sustainable Sources Building
<http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/BuildingSources.html>

U. S. Green Building Council
<http://www.usgbc.org/>

Household Hazardous Waste

Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District
<http://www.cuyahogaswd.org>

Household Products Database- National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine
<http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/>

Health and safety information on household products

Oil Recycling Information
<http://www.enfo.ie/leaflets/as5.htm>

Mold
Adverse Human Health Effects Associated with Molds in the Indoor Environment-American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

<http://www.acoem.org/moldresponse.aspx>

Affordable Comfort, Inc.- Training Resources

<http://www.affordablecomfort.org/resources_articles.php?ArticleTypeID=2&PageID=22>

American Phytopathological Society
<http://www.apsnet.org>

Building Science Corporation Mold Issues

<http://www.buildingscienceconsulting.com/resources/mold/default.htm>

Camroden Associates, Inc.

<http://www.camroden.com/default.html>

Center for Disease Control and Prevention- Mold
<http://www.cdc.gov/mold/>

American Academy of Pediatrics- Environmental Risk Factors Associated With Pediatric Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemosiderosis in a Cleveland Community
<http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/99/1/e5>

Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, by the Institute of Medicine

<http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091934/html/>

DIY "Do It Yourself Network" Episodes on Combating Mold Growth in the Home

<http://www.diynet.com/diy/shows_cmm/episode/0,2046,DIY_14274_25079,00.html>

Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Inc.- Common Mold Index
<http://www.emlab.com/fungi.html>

EPA - Mold
<http://www.epa.gov/mold/>

EPA - A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture, and Your Homes
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/moldguide.html>
The latest information available on how to clean up mold.  

EPA- Mold Resources
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/moldresources.html>  

EPA- Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/index.html>

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
<http://www.fema.gov/>

MidAtlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center
<http://www.mehrc.org/>
Mold remediation and Indoor Air Quality training

Minnesota Department of Public Health - Mold in Homes
<http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/indoorair/mold/index.html>
Very clear and easy-to-follow instructions Mold-related Health Effects: Clinical, Remediation Worker Protection and Biomedical Research Issues- Society for Occupational and Environmental Health

<http://www.soeh.org/index.html#>

National Center for Environmental Health, CDC Mold Page
<http://www.cdc.gov/mold/>  

New York City Department of Health - Facts about Mold
<http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/epi/epimold.shtml>

New York City Department of Health - Guidelines on Assessment and Remediation of Fungi in Indoor Environments
<http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/epi/moldrpt1.shtml>
Technical procedures for cleaning up mold geared towards building engineers and management.

OSHA Preventing Mold-Related Problems in the Indoor Workplace - A Guide for Building Owners, Managers and Occupants
<http://www.osha.gov/Publications/preventing_mold.pdf>

OSHA Quick Card: Mold
<http://www.osha.gov/Publications/mold.pdf>

Acute Pulmonary Hemorrage/Hemosiderosis Among Infants- Cleveland
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00033843.htm>

Pulmonary Hemmorhage/Hemosiderosis Among Infants- Cleveland, Ohio
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00045680.htm>

Investigation of Acute Idiopathic Pulmonary hemorrhage Among Infants- Massachucets
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5335a4.htm>

Acute Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemorrhage Among Infants
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5302a1.htm>

Pest Control
Asthma, Children and Pesticide, Beyond Pesticides - National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
<http://www.beyondpesticides.org/children/asthma/index.htm>

Beyond Pesticides - National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
<http://www.beyondpesticides.org/> 

Centers for Disease Control - Environmental Health
<http://www.cdc.gov/Environmental/>

Center for Public Integrity - Unreasonable Risk: The Politics of Pesticides
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/Content.aspx?src=search&context=article&id=364>

Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

EPA pesticides
<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/>

EPA Roach Prevention for Kids
<http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/kids/roaches/english/>

Get Set Inc. - Non-Toxic Pest Control
<http://www.getipm.com/>
Including The Bug Stops Here! - a free book providing safe alternatives to pesticides

Imported Fire Ants and Household Insects- USDA
<http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=66-15-10-15i>

Integrated Pest Management for Your School or Facility
<http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/index.html> 

Integrated Pest Management, University of Florida
<http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/> 

National Pesticide Information Center
<http://npic.orst.edu/>

National Environmental Education and Training Foundation - National Strategies for Health Care Providers: Pesticides Initiative
<http://www.neefusa.org/health/pesticides/index.htm> 

National Pesticide Telecommunications Network
<http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/newsletters/hortupdate/mar01/art7mar.html> 

Natural Resources Defense Council - Harmful Pet Products FAQs
<http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qpets.asp>

New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
<http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/nycap/nycap.htm/> 

Pest Control Technology
<http://www.pctonline.com>

Pesticide Action Network North America
<http://www.panna.org/>

Pesticide Education Resources- University of Nebraska, Lincoln <http://pested.unl.edu/pesticide/pages/index.jsp>

Safe 2 Use Environmental and People Safe Products
<http://www.safe2use.lightjump.com/>

Safer Pest Control Project
<http://www.spcpweb.org/>

National Prevalence and Exposure Risk for Cockroach Allergen in US Households, Environmental Health Perspectives Magazine
<http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/8561/abstract.pdf>

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