People spend as much as 90% of their lives indoors. US Environmental Protection Agency statistics show that indoor air quality is five times worse than outdoor air, making it one of the top threats to good health. Its linked to allergies, sickness and fatigue. Fortunately, indoor air quality can be improved with the help of home air filters, purifiers and living house plants. Plants cycle the air by taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. But plants also have the ability to purify household air by naturally filtering harmful chemicals found in the air known as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, which come from man-made products in the home. Following are some practical instructions on how to select helpful indoor plants and how to properly care for those plants.
How to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality with Plants
Posted by admin on February 8th, 2011
Posted in Inside Ideas 
Tags: Agency Statistics, Air Plants, Air Purifiers, Allergies, Carbon Dioxide, Environmental Protection Agency, Fatigue, Good Health, Harmful Chemicals, Home Air Filters, House Plants, Household Air, Improve, Indoor, Indoor Air Quality, Indoor Plants, Oxygen, People, Plants, Quality, Vocs, Volatile Organic Compounds
This is nonsense! the NASA researchers who started all this have shown that the plants don’t remove the chemicals (VOCs) but the soil (growing medium) did the removal. They even did some experiments where the used fans to move air at a higher rate through the soil. They concluded that the same removal would have occurred without the plants themselves. If you want more information, see three different articles on plants and indoor air quality at building ecology web site.
dada, mine worked fine.
download speed is way too slow, video keeps having to pause for buffer, and its not my system either