Building a Safe Home

These articles explain how my family built a mold-resistant, low EMF, low VOC, high performance home.

Minisplit

Cleaning a Minisplit

Minisplits are a great way to provide heating and cooling in a home that has a vented attic.  There is no ducting to worry about, and they’re very efficient.  They do, however, get dusty. We’ve found we have to clean ours more than the recommended once per year to keep them mold free. They’re fine when

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Handful of soil

Healthy Land Stewardship

A spoonful of healthy soil contains more organisms than there are humans alive right now. Isn’t that wild? My true love is land stewardship.  I think land care is an important part of creating a healthy home, so I’m going to write a little about what we’re doing. I’m a certified Permaculture consultant. The name

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Electrical breaker box with ethernet wiring

EMF Best Practices for Building

We live in interesting times. Technology is moving very fast – faster than safety research can keep up with. Preliminary peer-reviewed science suggests that we should be cautious, and that children are particularly vulnerable, but mainstream science has not yet had the funding or the time to catch up. Even worse, agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission

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