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Colours or Toxins – What Are You Painting Your House With?

Colours or Toxins – What Are You Painting Your House With?

Written by on September 28, 2015 | Features

Getting your home white-washed or jazzing up a particular wall with a more vibrant colour? Be wary of the quality of the paint you are using as it may cause dizziness, nausea and headaches. The long-term impact paints may have on your health aren’t great either. Some of the pollutants it emits are suspected to cause loss of coordination, damage the liver and other parts of body.

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Gardening the Eco-Friendly Way

Gardening the Eco-Friendly Way

Written by on September 9, 2015 | Features

Having plants around you is probably one of the easiest ways to clean up the air you breathe. However, is believed that soil can cause indoor pollution. Soil is known to emit radon and heavy metals that cause severe health problems ranging from headaches, dizziness to lung and stomach cancer. But there is now a hassle-free, aesthetic and an eco-friendly alternative to soil that will nurture the plants – plant gel.

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Of Living in Bubbles to Fight Pollution

Of Living in Bubbles to Fight Pollution

Written by on September 3, 2015 | Features

What do you think of a transparent canopy that covers your building, office or the neighbourhood park and ensures the circulation of clean air within? Called Bubbles, since you are literally living in a bubble, this architectural concept might seem more like a sci-fi project, but its designers believe it’s the need of the hour.

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