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Healthy Homes/Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)/General
Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre
<http://www.aivc.org/>

American Indoor Air Quality Council
<http://www.iaqcouncil.org/>

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
<http://www.ashrae.org/>

Association of Specialists in Cleaning and Restoration (ASCR)
<http://www.ascr.org> 

Building Science Corporation
<http://www.buildingscience.com/>
Top ten stupid things that builders do - Joseph Lstiburek's, Ph.D., P.E.

Building Material Emissions Study - California Integrated Waste Management Board
<http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Publications/GreenBuilding/43303015.pdf>

California Indoor Air Quality Program
<http://www.cal-iaq.org> 

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
<http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/index.cfm>

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Research Highlights
<http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/Library/whpu/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=67193>

Cleveland Housing Court - New Environmental Health Concerns Pose Risks for Landlords and Tenants

<http://www.clevelandhousingcourt.org/health.html>

Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Common Sense Steps

<http://www.protectingourhealth.org/commonsense/commonsense.htm >

EPA Healthy Indoor Painting Practices
<http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mc/services/dep/AQ/paint.htm>

EPA Indoor Air Quality
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/>

EcoCity Cleveland
<http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/>

Healthy Building Network
<http://www.healthybuilding.net/>

Healthy Flooring Network
<http://www.healthyflooring.org/> 

Healthy Homes Partnership - USDA and HUD
<http://www.uwex.edu/healthyhome/>

Healthy House Institute
<http://www.hhinst.com/index.html> 
Web home of John Bower, author of The Healthy House.

Healthy Indoor Air for America's Homes
<http://www.montana.edu/wwwcxair/>

Household Products Database - National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
<http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm>  

Indoor Air Quality email list 1
<http://www.egroups.com/subscribe.cgi/iaq>

Indoor Air Quality email list 2
<mailto:iequality-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>

Indoor Air Quality - Texas A&M University and Agricultural Extension
<http://fcs.tamu.edu/housing/iaq/iaq.htm>

Indoor Environment Notebook
<http://web.bsu.edu/ien/>
IAQ questions answered by Thad Godish, Ph.D., Ball State University

Indoor Health and Productivity Project - National Science and Technology Council

<http://www.dc.lbl.gov/IHP/>

Institute of Inspection Cleaning & Restoration
<http://www.iicrc.org/> 
Fire and flood restoration professional association.

International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
<http://www.isiaq.org/>

Inventory of European Research on the Indoor Environment (IERIE)
<http://wads.le.ac.uk/ieh/ierie/>

Master Home Environmentalist Exchange
<http://www.alaw.org/mhe.html> 
Washington State American Lung Association 

MidAtlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center
<http://www.mehrc.org/>
Mold remediation and IAQ training

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Housing
<http://www.thegarden.net/mcs/

National Center for Healthy Housing
<http://www.centerforhealthyhousing.org/>
Formerly the National Center for Lead-Safe Housing. The Center seeks to develop and promote practical methods to protect children from residential environmental hazards while preserving the nation's stock of affordable housing.

National Center for Healthy Housing - Essentials in Healthy Homes Practitioner Training Materials and Bibliography
<http://www.healthyhomestraining.org/Practitioner/Materials.htm>

National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
<http://www.nibs.org/projects.html>

Professor Richard Corsi, University of Texas - Indoor Air Quality Research
<http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/corsi/Research.html>

Soap and Detergent Association
<http://www.sdahq.org/health/>

World Health Organization - Air Quality Guidelines
<http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/AIQ/activities/20050222_2> 

Assessment
Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

Guide for Building Owners, EPA and NIOSH
<http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/baqtoc.html>

Home*A*Syst: An Environmental Risk Assessment Program
<http://www.uwex.edu/homeasyst>

Jim LaRue's Green Building Cookbook
<http://www.greenbuildingcookbook.info/>

NC and A&T State University Cooperative Extension - Home Moisture Audit
<http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/copubs/home/care/005/>

Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF)
California Electric and Magnetic Fields Program
<http://www.dnai.com/~emf/>

EMF and Human Health
<http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop.html>
Medical College of Wisconsin

EMF Rapid
<http://www.niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid/> 
Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Program 

Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones and Health (UK)
<http://www.iegmp.org.uk/>

Micro Wave News
<http://microwavenews.com> 

Risk Evaluation, California EMF Program
<http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ehib/emf/RiskEvaluation/riskeval.html>

Energy
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
<http://www.aceee.org/index.htm> 

Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
<http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?www=http%3A//solstice.crest.org&itemid=636> 

Department of Energy - Your Home
<http://www.energy.gov/engine/content.do>

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
<http://www.eren.doe.gov> 

Home Energy Magazine
<http://homeenergy.org/index.html>

Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
<http://www.nesea.org/>

Rocky Mountain Institute
<http://www.rmi.org/>

Green Building
Built Environment Center
<http://sustainable.state.fl.us/fdi/edesign/resource/index.html>

Building Material Emissions Study - California Integrated Waste Management Board
<http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Publications/GreenBuilding/43303015.pdf>

Center for Resourceful Building Technology
<http://www.crbt.org/>

Cleveland Green Building Coalition
<http://wwwclevelandgbc.org> 

Coop America - Green Pages Online
<http://www.coopamerica.org/gp/>

Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment
<http://www.eiolca.net/>
Green Design Initiative, Carnegie Mellon

Energy Efficient Building Association
<http://www.eeba.org/>

Environmental Building News
<http://www.buildinggreen.com/>

Environmental Home Center
<http://www.environmentalhomecenter.com/>

Green Building Council
<http://www.usgbc.org/>

Greenbuilding discussion group
<http://oikos.com/resources/maillist.html>

Green Building Research Cente, National Association of Home Builders
<http://www.nahbrc.org/builders/green/index.html> 

GreenSeal
<http://www.greenseal.org/>

Health House Project of the American Lung Association
<http://oikos.com/resources/maillist.html>

Healthy Building Network
<http://www.healthybuilding.net/>

Household Products Database - National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
<http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm>

National Association of Home Builders Green Building Page
<http://www.nahb.org/page.aspx/category/sectionID=222>

New Green Products
<http://home.earthlink.net/~dlombard/product.htm>

Smart Communities Network
<http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/buildings/affhousing.shtml>

Sustainable Building Sources
<http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/BuildingSources.html>

Household Hazardous Waste
NIH Household Products Guide

<http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/>

Health and safety information on household products

Information About Recycling Oil
<http://www.enfo.ie/leaflets/as5.htm>

Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District
<http://www.cuyahogaswd.org>

Mold
ACOEM Report on Indoor Mold and Human Health

<http://www.acoem.com/guidelines/article.asp?ID=52>

Affordable Comfort, Inc. Mold Resources and Technical Articles

<http://www.affordablecomfort.org/html/nl-pub.html>

American Phytopathological Society
<http://www.apsnet.org>

Building Science Corporation Mold Resources

<http://www.buildingscience.com/resources/mold/default.htm>

Camroden Associates, Inc. Mold Articles and Papers

<http://camroden.com/downloads.html>

Center for Disease Control Mold Page
<http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/mold/default.htm>

Cleveland Pulmonary Hemosiderosis Cluster, Pediatrics Journal
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/moldresources.html>

Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, by the Institute of Medicine

<http://www.nap.edu/books/0309091934/html/>

DIY "Do It Yourself Network" Episodes on Combating Mold in the Home

<http://www.diynet.com/diy/shows_cmm/episode/0,2046,DIY_14274_25079,00.html>

Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, Inc.
<http://www.emlab.com/fungi.html>

EPA - Mold
<http://www.epa.gov/mold/>

EPA - A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture, and Your Homes
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/moldguide.html>
The latest information available on how to clean up mold.  

EPA Basic Mold Information
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/moldresources.html>  

EPA Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/molds/index.html>

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
<http://www.fema.gov/>

MidAtlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center
<http://www.mehrc.org/>
Mold remediation and Indoor Air Quality training

Minnesota Department of Public Health - Mold in Homes
<http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/indoorair/mold/index.html>
Very clear and easy-to-follow instructions

Mold-related Health Effects: Clinical, Remediation Worker Protection and Biomedical Research Issues

<http://www.soeh.org/index.html#>

National Center for Environmental Health, CDC Mold Page
<http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/mold/default.htm>  

New York City Department of Health - Facts about Mold
<http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/epi/epimold.shtml>
What everyone should know about mold.

New York City Department of Health - Guidelines on Mold Assessment and Remediation in Indoor Environments
<http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/epi/moldrpt1.shtml>
Technical procedures for cleaning up mold geared towards building engineers and management.

OSHA Preventing Mold-Related Problems in the Indoor Workplace - A Guide for Building Owners, Managers and Occupants
<http://www.osha.gov/Publications/preventing_mold.pdf>

OSHA Quick Card: Mold
<http://www.osha.gov/Publications/mold.pdf>

Pulmonary Hemosiderosis and Stachybotrys Mold, University Hospitals, Cleveland
<http://gcrc.meds.cwru.edu/stachy/default.htm>

Links and Resources on Mold, Centers for Disease Control
<http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/mold/links.htm>

Report on Cleveland Pulmonary Hemosiderosis and Stachybotrys Association, Centers for Disease Control
<http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4909a3.htm>

Pest Control
Asthma, Children and Pesticides: What you should know to protect your family, Beyond Pesticides - National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
<http://www.beyondpesticides.org/children/asthma/index.htm>

Beyond Pesticides - National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
<http://www.beyondpesticides.org/> 

Centers for Disease Control - Environmental Health
<http://www.cdc.gov/node.do?id=0900f3ec8000e044>

Center for Public Integrity - Unreasonable Risk: The Politics of Pesticides
<http://store.publicintegrity.org/ecom/store/default.aspx?act=details&type=report&iID=54>

Cockroach Biology
<http://pested.unl.edu/chapter3.htm>

Cockroach Control Manual
<http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pat/cocktoc.htm>

Community Environmental Health Resource Center
<http://www.cehrc.org/>

EPA pesticides
<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/>

EPA Roach Prevention for Kids
<http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/kids/roaches/english/>

Get Set Inc. - Non-Toxic Pest Control
<http://www.getipm.com/>
Including The Bug Stops Here! - a free book providing safe alternatives to pesticides

Integrated Pest Management in Schools
<http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/index.html> 

Integrated Pest Management, University of Florida
<http://sarasota.extension.ufl.edu/IPM/ipm.htm> 

National Anti-microbial Information Network
<http://nain.orst.edu>

National Environmental Education and Training Foundation - Health Care Provider Pesticides Initiative
<http://www.neetf.org/Health/providers/index.shtm> 

National Pesticide Telecommunications Network
<http://ace.orst.edu/info/nptn/> 

Natural Resources Defense Council - Harmful Pet Products FAQs
<http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/qpets.asp>

New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
<http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/nycap/> 

Pest Control Technology Magazine
<http://www.pctonline.com>

Pesticide Action Network
<http://www.panna.org/>

Safe 2 Use Non Toxic Products
<http://www.safe2use.com/>

Safer Pest Control Project
<http://www.spcpweb.org/>

Integrated Pest Management, University of Florida
<http://sarasota.extension.ufl.edu/IPM/ipm.htm> 

National Prevalence and Exposure Risk for Cockroach Allergen in US Households a study in Environmental Health Perspectives
<http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/8561/abstract.pdf>

USDA Household Insects
<http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~ifahi>

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