Healthy Indoors

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 4-22-21: Earth Day with Tom Murray

 

Joining us on today’s show will be Tom Murray, sustainability consultant, former EPA Senior Science Advisor, and Healthy Indoors columnist, to discuss Earth Day and his 44-years at the EPA.

Tom Murray is president of Tom Murray Environmental Consulting. He is a sustainability expert who spent 44 plus years at the United States Environmental Protection Agency.  He built his career around finding sustainability solutions through public-private partnerships with various industry sectors such as healthcare, the utility sector and the automotive industry.  He is also a contributor to Healthy Indoors Magazine offering his views as “Sustainability Snippets.”

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 4-15-21: How to Prevent “Snake Oil” Sales from the IAQ Industry

For years we’ve been hearing about “snake oil” products and “Snake Oil” Salesmen in the indoor environmental industry. Glenn Morrison wrote about it in his Indoor Air “Pseudoscience, Snake oil, and Indoor Air Quality” piece three years ago, and more recently, Bud Offermann in his 11/20 Beware the COVID-19 Snake Oil Salesmen Are Here paper.

This begs the question, “Is the Problem Snake Oil Salesmen or Snake Oil Products…or both?” We’re going to dive into that controversial conversation when we are joined by this week’s guests: Bud Offermann, Glenn Morrison, and Thomas Licker. This is going to be a show you will really want to see!

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 4-15-21 OVERTIME Segment: How to Prevent "Snake Oil" Sales from the IAQ Industry

We continued our 4-15-21 show for an additional 30-minute bonus segment with our guests.

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 4-8-21: Air Cleaning/Filtration for IAQ with guest Vinny Lobdell

On this week’s show, we’ll be discussing the role of air cleaning/filtration for maintaining good IAQ in our homes, workplaces, and schools with HealthWay Family of Brands President, Vinny Lobdell.

Vinny Lobdell, President, HealthWay Family of Brands

Vinny Lobdell attended Oswego State for 4 years focusing on Marketing and Economics. Later, he received an entrepreneurial masters in partnership with the Entrepreneurs Association at MIT. Over the past 12-years, Lobdell has developed a passion and expertise in Indoor Air Quality. He has traveled to 50 countries educating and speaking to industry leaders, governments, and medical professionals on air pollution and the harmful effects of occupying our built environments.

Lobdell took a leadership role as President at HealthWay Family of Brands in 2008 and soon thereafter, HealthWay was named to the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies in America. Today, HealthWay is recognized as the global leader in air purification solutions and builds portable and engineered modular, scalable options for residential and commercial spaces.

In 2017, as a response to growing end-consumer demand Lobdell co-founded Intellipure, a leading B2C brand with a heavy emphasis on customer experience through handcrafted, high- efficiency, individually certified air cleaning systems.

Over the last 6 months, HealthWay and Intelllipure have been proudly called on by NYC Health and Hospital, Atlantic Health Systems, The U.A.E. Ministry of health and hundreds of corporate clients to assist in getting people back to work safely. HealthWay remains committed to the Central New York Community and to fuel the global demand, has hired 50+ employees and added 20,000 square feet of additional manufacturing space at their global headquarters in Pulaski NY. HealthWay under the leadership of Lobdell is on a mission to “Reimagine the world as a better, safer place.”

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 4-1-21: The Health of Our Schools with Claire Barnett and Mansel Nelson

Joining us this week are Claire Barnett, Founder & Director of the Healthy Schools Network, and Mansel Nelson, Institute of Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) to talk about indoor environmental issues in our nation’s schools and the upcoming National Healthy Schools Week which begins on April 6, 2021.

Claire L. Barnett, MBA, Founder and Executive Director, grew Healthy Schools Network from its roots in New York into the nation’s premier voice for children’s environmental health at school by advancing a comprehensive policy agenda, fostering state and local environmental health coalitions across the country, and securing landmark reforms in states and federally. A social entrepreneur, she previously reported for TIME Magazine in New York City, administered rural New York health services, and assisted Adirondack Park communities with sustainable development. She shifted her focus to children’s environmental health in the aftermath of her child’s pesticide exposure at school. Barnett has an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (health systems finance) and a BA from Mount Holyoke College. In 2017, she was honored to receive three national awards: the William K. Reilly Award for environmental leadership and innovation from American University School of Public Policy; the US EPA Indoor Air Quality Champion Recognition; the David P. Rall Award for contributions to public health through science-based advocacy from the American Public Health Association at its annual convention in Atlanta.

Mansel A. Nelson, MS has served with the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP), which is hosted at Northern Arizona University. Mansel’s formal education included Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for twenty-two years. Prior to his service with Northern Arizona University, Mansel served in the US Army Chemical Corps for 14 years and taught community-based chemistry on the Navajo Nation for 6 years. As a Project Director, Mansel’s mission is to help prepare Native American students for careers involving the application of science, mathematics, science and technology to issues impacting tribal communities, such as healthy homes, clean air and clean water. Mansel is also the lead instructor for Indoor Air Quality / Healthy Homes / Healthy Schools courses provided by ITEP.

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 3-25-21: The Year of COVID with guests Dr. Richard Corsi & Dr. David Krause

We take a look back at this past year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what we've learned, and what we need to do going forward on this one-year anniversary of the Healthy Indoors LIVE Show. 

Dr. Richard L. Corsi is Dean of the Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science at Portland State University. He previously served on the faculty of the University of Guelph prior to 25 years in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. At UT Austin he served as department chair, endowed research chair, and member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Dr. Corsi and his research team have studied indoor air quality, from sources to fate and control of pollutants of both indoor and outdoor origin. His team was the first to incorporate a complex outdoor atmospheric chemistry algorithm into a model for indoor atmospheres, and also completed a modeling effort focused on cost-benefit analyses of indoor ozone control in a dozen cities, accounting for ozone reaction products. His team studied disinfectant interactions and by-product formation with a wide range of indoor materials, potential for passive removal materials to quench indoor chemistry, and indoor SOA formation in actual homes and laboratory chambers in the presence of common consumer products. Dr. Corsi has been honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of Humboldt State University (2006) and the College of Engineering at the University of California at Davis (2016). He is past President of the Academy of Fellows of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate. Dr. Corsi’s work has been featured in The Economist, National Geographic, NY Times, Washington Post, CBC The Nature of Things, NPR’s Science Friday w/ Ira Flatow, and more.

Dr. David Krause is founder of Healthcare Consulting and Contracting (HC3), and is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Toxicologist, with 25-years of experience in public health, occupational hazard assessments, and indoor air quality. David has expertise in risk assessment, workplace exposures, health care facilities, Legionnaires’ disease, combustion products, flame retardants, irritant chemical exposures, indoor air quality, and mold. From 2008 to 2011 he served as the State Toxicologist for the Florida Department of Health. He co-authored the 2009 Guidelines for the Surveillance, Investigation, and Control of Legionnaires’ Disease in Florida and the 2015 AIHA Guideline for the Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Legionella in Building Water Systems. David currently sits as a member of the ACGIH Bioaerosols Committee and chairs the AIHA Indoor Environmental Quality Committee and leads the association’s efforts to educate its members and the general public on issues surrounding Legionnaires’ Disease.

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 3-18-21: with Special Guests, Jeff & Connie May

Jeff May, Principal Scientist of May Indoor Air Investigations LLC in Tyngsborough, MA, has been investigating residential IAQ problems for over 25 years and has collected and examined by microscopy over 40,000 air and dust samples. He is author or co-author of 4 books on IAQ, published by Johns Hopkins University Press: “My House is Killing Me!” (2nd edition due in Fall 2020); “My Office is Killing Me!”; “The Mold Survival Guide”; and “Jeff May’s Healthy Home Tips.” 

Joining Jeff on our show is his wife, Connie May, who is co-author and editor of their books.

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 3-11-21: EIA Virtual 2021 Conference preview

This week’s Healthy Indoors LIVE Show features a preview of the Environmental Information Association (EIA)’s upcoming national event with special guests, Rob DeMalo, Steve Fulford, and Brent Kynoch.

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 3-4-21: Rachel Reboulet of Inspirotec, Inc.

Hosts Bob Krell & Joe Medosch and moderator Susan Valenti are joined by special guest, Rachel Reboulet of  Inspirotec, Inc. to discuss their new AirAnswers technology for collecting air quality samples in the indoor environment.

Healthy Indoors LIVE Show 2-11-21: Preview of the Upcoming IAQA Online Conference Feb 15-18, 2021

Joining us on Thursday Feb 11th were our guests: Jay Stake, President of IAQA, and Michele Buggy, Exec. IAQA Director. We’ll discuss the Indoor Air Quality Association‘s 2021 Conference that has gone fully-virtual this year, as well as some of IAQA’s goals for 2021 and beyond.