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With energy costs rising, Florida State University (FSU), a major Florida university, took a close look at HVAC maintenance, including the total operating cost of its HVAC system.

Tampa, FL - With rising energy costs, lower maintenance budgets and decreased indoor air quality every facility manager across the country is faced with how to deal with the new challenges. But potential savings can be right under an organizations nose. Case in point: dirty or clogged commercial evaporator coils. Simply performing a deep cleansing with PURE-Steam coil Cleaning and Flushing can dramatically reduce energy costs, while improving in indoor air quality and with no chemicals.  

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by Veronique Greenwood - Online Post | NewYorker.com  

A roller derby tournament seems like a brutal research environment: women crash around a rink in short skirts and skates, slamming their shoulders into members of the opposing team so that their own team's "jammer" can lap them and score. But it's perfect for researchers investigating how, through skin-to-skin contact, we might colonize other people with the microorganisms that colonize us.

When curious researchers armed with cotton swabs and strong stomachs sequence DNA from microorganisms gathered from our armpits, belly buttons, and various other locales, both inside and outside us, they...

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by Steve Levine ~ AtmosAir Solutions | BusinessNewsDaily.com

Executives spend most their time running their businesses, seeking new customers and trying to succeed in an often difficult marketplace. While the cost of healthcare is a huge problem, it's stunning how few CEOs are concerned with illness prevention, keeping employees healthy, reducing costly absenteeism and promoting overall wellness in the workplace.

There's no magic bullet that will keep employees healthy and avoid illness from the common cold, the dreaded flu or feared infections. But there is one less obvious way that you can attempt to keep workers healthy and at their desks: indoor air quality.

The air inside a new or existing office building can literally make you and your employees ill. Sick Office Syndrome is real...

by Michaël Graham Richard ~ MichaelGR.com | treehugger.com

A recent study by the World Health Organization provides a good dose of "good news, bad news". Compared to 20 years ago, there are fewer deaths from infectious diseases, maternal and child illness, and malnutrition. But they also found that air pollution is a huge killer, probably bigger than we suspected. Yet it isn't really a media-friendly cause célèbre...