Best Containment Practices - Design and Installation can position your company to manage every job site with skill.  The risks and consequences can be significant:

• Dissatisfied clients
• Exposing clients and families to potential long term health risks
• Exposing employees to potential health risks and future claims
• Increased clean-up cost, increased time and other direct hits to your bottom line.
• Even fines when working in pre-1978 housing stock. (RRP Certifications are required by EPA)
  

Get ready to spend 4-hour in this “hands-on, highly participatory, workshop. You will learn how to design, install and manage both interior and exterior containment systems. You will be able to practice the skills necessary for quick, easy, and cost effective containment procedures. View demonstrations that prepare you to:

• pre-plan and budget for “Evidence Based Best Containment Practices and Systems”
• develop creative ideas for highly efficient containment systems
• understand best material choices and resources.
• Learn “What’s in your Job Box”
• design cost effective containment systems for durable and timely setup
• provide insight on when to recycle and re-use!

Instructors, Doug Kennedy and Jon Alexander, bring over 50 years of combined construction experience in the sustainable and healthy homes industry. Their innovative and evidence-based containment techniques can revolutionize how you plan and manage your construction projects and business.
Want more information? Contact gretchenaj@usa.net or call 206-930-5355

Twelve of the Pacific Northwest's leading home building experts, scientist and health professionals team up to present the Healthy Homes certification course. This eight week building science program, complete with an interactive site tour, is designed to provide in-depth and best-practice information on sustainable, healthy and energy-efficient building techniques. By viewing the "house as a system," students gain valuable insights on how and why indoor air quality is a significant deteminant for the quality of life and health of a home's residents.

Whether a builder, remodeler, real estate agent or health practitioner, this class is for  you. For more information regarding the fall class or to register, email gretchenaj@usa.net . Warning, this class fills quickly.

DID YOU KNOW?  "Studies show that one in three children have unsafe levels of lead in their blood (22,000,000 American children under 18 years old with blood lead levels of 2.5 micrograms per deciliter or higher!)"
 Lead affects virtually every system in the body. Small amounts of lead in the body can do serious harm to the developing brain and nervous system of a young child. With a blood lead level as low as 10 mcg/dL (micrograms per deciliter), a child’s learning and behavior may be affected.
Children may be exposed to lead-based paint or lead-contaminated dust in their homes or pick it up from the soil outside.

FDA Tests Reveal Raised Lead Levels in U.S. Lipsticks
Lead is turning up in the most unusual places! Lead levels measured in lipstick in 2007 found many products testing lead-free but fast forward to 2011 and the reports are a completely different story. Check the chart to see what's on your lips!