Dust and Pollen Control:

HEALTH ENHANCED ENVIRONMENT:
This factor is addressed is this earlier page: LAND

COMMERCIALIZED - INDUSTRIALIZED:
Industrialized and business segregated regions vary widely because of differing zoning regulations, different degrees of enforcement of the regulations, and differences in the social concern of the business or property owners.

For the health conscious and hypersensitive person, comercialized and industrialized areas sometimes, yet rarely, provide a positive environment. These may include school, manufacturing, retail business, and office building premises. If the operations located in the region do not expel noxious gases and fumes, nor airbourne particulates, nor promote the use of toxic insecticide-fungicide-pesticides on their lawns and shrubs --- their environment may provide a health oasis for the employee and visitor. In specialized and infrequent circumstances, homeless individuals may reside on the premises with a degree of proactivity, precaution, and tolerance.

For 6 months during 1997-1998, I lived in the office I was working at. The company I was employed by was in the quandary of raising monies to start a new company and required my assistance to develop an extensive business plan, design and code an internet website, provide staff training, redress problems in the parent company, and pull together the planning for a major electronic database. A local company, promoting itself as a business investment management service, had promised delivery of funding within a set time period in exchange for service fees. They failed to deliver on time.

I believed in the proposed business concept and its potential to benefit the community by innovating an industry changing service of increasing demand. A point was reached where I could no longer be paid until the financing was raised. At first, delays and promises from the management company suggested that financing would be finalized within a few weeks. Leaving a job which could be viable at any time seemed irresponsible. The work was demanding yet greatly rewarding. The social and cultural benefits were practical and guaranteed to follow from work, commitment, and adequate seed money financing.

The business was located at a distance from where I shared an apartment. As the weeks continued into the midst of winter in southern Ontario, Canada, commuting times became unreliable and costly for a limited income. Public transportation after a late evening hour became erratic with none continuing after 11:00 PM. Increasingly, there became an urgency to have more and more of the planning and paperwork completed so that the Request for Financing Proposals could become more and more attracive to a prospective investor. Work hours extended later and later with dashes through the cold, wind, and snow becoming increasingly rushed and final buses nearly missed. When enough work was completed, the financial resources would hopefully be found.

The financial management company was revealed as fraudulent.
It frequently took the last dollars of its enterprising clients only to make some minimal efforts of presentation to banks and other institutions. The company failed would usually become suitably discouraged and with the owners financially distressed and depressed, fade away without complaint. Our company president revealed the scam to the police, mass media, and business organizations. Our choice now became a rush to the open-doors stage with none of the development capital usually required. To continue, for me, personal expenses had to be minimized and personal effort maximized.

FILTRATION UNITS:

PAINTS and FINISHES:
Throughout the 1990s and more recently, paints and finishes have expanded in numbers of applications, specialization for different environments, and degree of toxicity of application, drying, curing, and longevity. Very healthful ingasing paints were made available during the late 1980's and early 1990's but were lost to the market for lack of adequate marketing and publicity efforts. Quality products can be made, and fail in the market --- sometimes for lack of investment; other times for the presence of powerful competition. New options are always being developed. Consider the possibilities. Then investigate the current availabilities and evaluate according to health, cost, and coverage elements.

NON-TOXIC:
LIVOS is a well respected European based retailer of low toxic finishes.
CONTACT info in Canada:
ECO-HOUSE (1988) INC. LIVOS PLANT CHEMISTRY CANADA
- Tel. (506) 366-3529, 1-877-326-4687, E-mail: henry@eco-house.com,
Free catalogue. Since 1988. Visa & MasterCard.
Art materials, wood finishing products and organic pesticides made of natural & nontoxic ingredients for a healthier lifestyle. Wood preservers and stains, thinner, beeswax wood treatments, shellacs, paints, glues & adhesives.
P.O. Box 220, Stn. A
Fredericton, NB
E3B 4Y9, Canada

Silicate Dispersion Paints:
Silicate Paint is SOLVENT-FREE
Silicate Paint is completely odourless within 1-2 days after painting
Silicate Paint is over 97 % mineral-source ingredients in a water base
All paint ingredients are available in abundance( water, quartz sand, potash, lime, silicate minerals )

The extraordinary durability reduces the overall raw materials usage of paint and helps to save resources.

Silicate Paint is by nature antimicrobial and does not require the use of fungicides.

Silicate Paint acts fire-retardant, since it is not combustible at any temperature

What is a Silicate Dispersion Paint:
The paint binder is a potassium silicate dissolved in water, which is also known as “waterglass”. This term describes it well, since it is a liquid form of glass which petrifies when it is allowed to react chemically with lime. This fact makes Silicate Paint the perfect coating for all mineral-based surfaces, especially those containing lime, such as concrete and lime & cement plaster.

On those surfaces it can chemically bond with the surface and, since it lets water-vapours pass through, there is no risk that it could ever blister or peel. Besides the binder and water, Eco-House Silicate Dispersion Paint contains as major ingredients ground lime stone, silicate fillers and mineral-source pigments, such as titanium dioxide (natural anti-microbial when exposed to light), iron oxides and various earthen pigments.

Where to use Silicate Dispersion Paints:
Obviously the ideal surfaces are new concrete and lime & cement plaster surfaces on interior and exterior walls. But also other surfaces are acceptable as long as they are rigid, clean and somewhat absorbent, for instance, masonry surfaces, concrete blocks and rigid drywall.

Unsuitable substrates are wood, metal and any flexible surface. The full benefit of the Silicate Paint can only be reached, if the paint has a direct contact with the mineral surface, this means all previous paint coats and oily residues from concrete additives have to go completely before painting.

Natural Wood Finishes include these: