Building Healthy
New Living Health urges communities to consider alternatives when building or rebuilding.
Whenever building (or rebuilding after a storm) it is important to consider and use smart, healthy, and green materials. Although it may sometimes seem easier to build with conventional building materials, in the long run it is better for your health and the environment to choose products that are made sustainably and without any toxic chemicals.
When rebuilding take a list with questions about these aspects of your new home to your builder and ask about:
Learn which building materials…
Do not contain VOCs (volatile organic compounds)
Do not emanate RADON or other radioactive materials
Do not contain LEAD
Do not allow MOLD to grow
Do not provide an environment for bacterial or viral infections to grow and be passed from human to human
