Now, straying away from the exciting subject of paints, here is an extracted article by Bill Wolverton, a former NASA research scientist and now President of Wolverton Environmental Services.
When NASA started to draw up serious plans to colonise the Moon and Mars in the 1970s (I know, I know...) they tried growing crops in sealed chambers to freshen up the air with oxygen and supply fresh food. Well those science bods found something very unexpected - the plants started cleaning up all sorts of toxic gases in the air. Bill Wolverton, one of those researchers, realised ordinary houseplants haverather special cleansing powers.
The humble spider plant can remove all formaldehyde in a closed chamber in less than 24 hours. Begonias eat carbon monoxide, the dwarf date palm cleans up xylene, aquatic plants like rushes and water lilies can remove toxic insecticides from water (just like reed bed systems do).
ecoartisan can help too, with our application of natural paints and finishes (maybe even a few plants!) you can have a healthy home environment. Keep your computer, put a spider plant next to it, paint your walls, with natural paints!
There may be as many as 800 volatile organic chemicals swirling inside buildings. They seep from walls and ceilings; they're in our clothing, furniture, and carpets. And one simple and cheap way to offset many of these toxic gases: common house plants! Finding out which ones do the best job involves a good deal of research, the kind of painstaking work done by our friend Dr Wolverton who has been studying the cleansing effects of indoor plants for over 25 years.
Not only do plants make you feel good and add beauty to your home but they clean your environment, their leaves can cut down noise pollution because they behave like soft furnishings (without the offgassing), they can make dry centrally-heated rooms more humid and cut down on static electricity because they evaporate water. Wow! What lovely little green cleaners!
Good plants include:
Peace lily
Areca palm
Lady palm
Ficus alii
Boston Fern
Gerbera Daisy
Golden pothos
And many more... plus they're very easy to grow, they remove undesirable indoor air polluting substances, such as formaldehyde and acetone. They add healthy moisture to a room, and that is especially important during the cold winter months, when the air can get dry and it makes you more susceptible to illness. So these house plants do a lot of good things for us in creating healthy indoor environments.
And finally – talk to your plants – they feed on the carbon monoxide that you breathe out!
I very much recommend you check out Bill Wolverton’s book, 50 ECO-FRIENDLY HOUSEPLANTS, published by Seven Dials.
I want to include the PDF ‘pollution eating plants, how the CO-OP bank has introduced them in Manchester. Go on then
When NASA started to draw up serious plans to colonise the Moon and Mars in the 1970s (I know, I know...) they tried growing crops in sealed chambers to freshen up the air with oxygen and supply fresh food. Well those science bods found something very unexpected - the plants started cleaning up all sorts of toxic gases in the air. Bill Wolverton, one of those researchers, realised ordinary houseplants haverather special cleansing powers.
The humble spider plant can remove all formaldehyde in a closed chamber in less than 24 hours. Begonias eat carbon monoxide, the dwarf date palm cleans up xylene, aquatic plants like rushes and water lilies can remove toxic insecticides from water (just like reed bed systems do).
ecoartisan can help too, with our application of natural paints and finishes (maybe even a few plants!) you can have a healthy home environment. Keep your computer, put a spider plant next to it, paint your walls, with natural paints!
There may be as many as 800 volatile organic chemicals swirling inside buildings. They seep from walls and ceilings; they're in our clothing, furniture, and carpets. And one simple and cheap way to offset many of these toxic gases: common house plants! Finding out which ones do the best job involves a good deal of research, the kind of painstaking work done by our friend Dr Wolverton who has been studying the cleansing effects of indoor plants for over 25 years.
Not only do plants make you feel good and add beauty to your home but they clean your environment, their leaves can cut down noise pollution because they behave like soft furnishings (without the offgassing), they can make dry centrally-heated rooms more humid and cut down on static electricity because they evaporate water. Wow! What lovely little green cleaners!
Good plants include:
Peace lily
Areca palm
Lady palm
Ficus alii
Boston Fern
Gerbera Daisy
Golden pothos
And many more... plus they're very easy to grow, they remove undesirable indoor air polluting substances, such as formaldehyde and acetone. They add healthy moisture to a room, and that is especially important during the cold winter months, when the air can get dry and it makes you more susceptible to illness. So these house plants do a lot of good things for us in creating healthy indoor environments.
And finally – talk to your plants – they feed on the carbon monoxide that you breathe out!
I very much recommend you check out Bill Wolverton’s book, 50 ECO-FRIENDLY HOUSEPLANTS, published by Seven Dials.
I want to include the PDF ‘pollution eating plants, how the CO-OP bank has introduced them in Manchester. Go on then
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