To: The Weatherization Department
The Friday Report Friday August 23, 1996
FromWright Energy's
Weatherization Network Since 1984
970-349-0551 fax 970-349-0923 voice Doc@CrestedButte.com
From Jeannie Jertson in Globe, AZ, comes the notice that anyone living in metro areas can access Email free through "Juno", a new Internet Service.
The catch is that along with your email you get some advertisements. So in theory the ads will pay all the costs plus profit, just as TV does.
It certainly looks likes it's worth a try. All you need is a 386 (or higher) PC and a 9600 buad modem. To find out more call 800-988-5866.
Another idea from Russ Clark. "Sell the idea to EPA that the air quality issues should be covered by their "Environmental Justice" grant money. We have one CAP that received $30,000 in the EPA environmental justice grant money to do shade trees, compact fluorescent light bulbs, and energy education. My first interest lies in getting EPA to "spring" for CO monitors, and mold contamination remediation. Next on the list should be the air to air heat exchangers to improve ventilation.
Take "..the opportunity to check out your (local) EPA office to determine who has program management responsibility for the EPA "environmental justice" grant money go ahead and do so, O.K.? If enough of us talk it up with the regional EPA people it just might "make it to the table" when the EPA folks get together for their periodic meetings.
"...fond as our people are of improvement, the greatest possible improvement in a dwelling house - ventilation - is as yet a thing almost unknown in this county..."
Written in 1850 by architect A.J.Downing. From Understanding Ventilation by John Bower.
Why Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in Schools is of Particular Concern
From the EnviroCenter. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that indoor air contaminant concentrations can be 2-5 times and on occasion, 100 times higher than outdoor concentrations.
These levels are of particular concern because most people spend about 90% of their time indoors. The EPA and its Scientific Advisory Board have ranked indoor air pollution among the top five environmental health risks to the public.
Rising energy costs have brought about a reduction in the amount of outdoor air brought into buildings as well as tighter building structures. School operating and maintenance budgets have also been reduced. these actions along with the variety of indoor air contaminants from building materials, furnishings, cleaning supplies, etc, etc. have reduced the quality of the indoor environment and consequently the health and well-being of the school' s occupants
Indoor air quality problems are not always easily recognized. In some cases only one or a few individuals are having symptoms which can appear on the surface to be of psychological origin. However, many people are
very sensitive to indoor air pollutants or may be exposed to a point source of pollutants. Children breathe a greater volume of air relative to their body weight and therefore are particularly susceptible to these air contaminants.
IAQ is of particular concern in schools where the building operations and maintenance maybe under budgeted or the budget gets axed. The ventilation systems in schools are typically simple and even primitive and because the children breathe a greater volume of air relative to their body weight, because classrooms are usually overcrowded and because
a lot of activity occurs in the school environment, the occupants are particularly susceptible to indoor air contaminants.
(Have you ever heard it said, "One gets sick and they all get sick.)
Point to Ponder.
Who deserves the greater loyalty?
The people who pay you or the people you buy from.
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