Photograph by Lasse Bergqvist Since the discovery of fire, cooking has conquered a primary role in our lives. The first form of cooking started 2 million years ago with the throwing of a chunk of food into the fire. According to Anthropologist Richard Wrangham, it was a spontaneous gesture that led to the discovery of…
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VOCs: SPENDING HABITS AFFECT INDOOR AIR QUALITY
Different studies have proven the pivotal role of indoor air quality on our health, nonetheless, we tend to minimize the impact of poor air quality on our well-being. As the time we spend in indoor spaces increases, also our awareness about the consequences of the choices we make should increase all together. In our recent…
CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW OUR DAILY ACTIONS CAN STILL STOP GLOBAL WARMING
Even if climate change may appear to you as a rather new phenomenon, well, it’s not. Scientists werealready talking about climate change in the 19th century, when they started to notice that after theIndustrial Revolution in the 18th century, human activities could have an impact on the Earth in thelong term. Svante Arrhenius, for instance,…
Can good Indoor Air Quality help against Coronavirus?
There’s much talk online and offline about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, the new respiratory virus identified in Wuhan, China, few months ago. While one should not surrender to the general panic and alarmism, it is also a good rule to stay informed, listen to official sources and keep tabs on the best practices….
Are you safe indoors from the Australian bushfires smoke?
In this time of emergency, we wish to raise attention towards an important matter: are we truly safe in our homes from the Australian bushfires smoke?
Healthy Christmas: 12 tips for your festive indoor environment
It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas everywhere you go… Didn’t the song go like this? No? Well anyway, we all know the feeling of those Christmas Eves whith Grandma sleeping in one corner, the fireplace burning bright and a thick cooking scent in the air. That may seem like the perfect picture of…
10 worst office behaviours (that impact indoor environment quality, too!)
There are certainly many issues that can arise in an office when working with other people. Not everyone gets along well, and sometimes even small, innocent behaviours can trigger discontent.
Airgloss story: from Earth to space… and back!
In February 2011, at a time when indoor air quality related topics were still mostly unknown, the first four Airgloss NADIR units set sail for an amazing adventure towards the International Space Station.