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"Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul." - Linda Solegato
Did you know that if you keep certain houseplants, those plants will clean pollutants, chemicals and carcinogens out of the air inside your home?
How cool is that!?
all about air-cleaning houseplants
- The Top Five Reasons Air-Cleaners Are The Coolest Houseplants
- The Air-Cleaner Photo Gallery
- Learn About Air-Cleaning Houseplants
- Plants for Your Health, from GOOD Magazine
- Which Are Your Favorite Air-Cleaning Houseplants?
- House Plant Videos
- House Plant Headlines
- Tools for Tending Houseplants
- Your turn: Am I right?
The Top Five Reasons Air-Cleaners Are The Coolest Houseplants
- Houseplants don't need much more than water and light.
- Houseplants take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
- Houseplants stabilize humidity levels.
- Houseplants produce oxygen.
- Houseplants can also remove air-borne pollutants if you pick the right ones!
Learn About Air-Cleaning Houseplants
educational and informational links on houseplants
- Plants - Indoor air pollution - air clean with plants
- Indoor Plants - Clean Air
- Care2 Greenliving :: Top Ten Houseplants for Cleaner Air
- Don't forget about plants for cleaning indoor air pollution, adapted by "Your Naturally Healthy Home" by Alan Berman.
- IAQ News: Living air cleaners: houseplants do more than make our homes pretty
- Living air cleaners: houseplants do more than make our homes pretty. They can play an integral role in improving the very essence of our lives--the air we breathe
- Houseplants can be just like a breath of fresh air /
- Palm and fern families work to purify home and office of toxins and specific chemicals
- Clean air plants
- The following 20 plants were given the highest ratings for removal of chemical vapours in Dr. Wolverton's Book "Eco Friendly House Plants". The book gives detailed information on all fifty plants tested.
- Air Filtration and Purification with House Plants
- Houseplants can be very beneficial in our lives. They purify and renew our stale indoor air by filtering out toxins, pollutants and the carbon dioxide we exhale - replacing them with life sustaining oxygen!
- HOUSEPLANTS HELP CLEAN INDOOR AIR
- Our space program has led the way to a fascinating and important discovery about the role of houseplants indoors. NASA has been researching methods of cleansing the atmosphere in future space stations to keep them fit for human habitation over extended periods of time. They've found that many common houseplants and blooming potted plants help fight pollution indoors.
- NASA Study - Plants Clean the Air!!!
- Common indoor plants may provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. Those plants in your office or home are not only decorative, but NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings.
- House plants that clean the air
- Several varieties of common house plants can effectively remove harmful air pollution including formaldehyde, benzene, trichloroethylene, and carbon monoxide, from indoor environments.
- English Ivy: A Fix for Allergies?
- Research shows that English ivy may help clean the air of allergens such as mold and animal feces.
Plants for Your Health, from GOOD Magazine
Which Are Your Favorite Air-Cleaning Houseplants?
vote for all of your favorites
Here are some of the most common houseplants that are able to remove and reduce toxins. Which are among your favorite houseplants?
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Spider plant
benzene2 points
2
Boston Fern
formaldehyde1 point
3
English Ivy
allergens, mold, animal feces1 point
4
Peace Lily
ethyl and methyl alcohol, acetone and ammonia0 points
5
Lady palm
ammonia, formaldehyde0 points
6
Gerbera Daisy
benzene0 points
House Plant Headlines
the latest house plant buzz, fresh from the internet
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Here's just about every sort of tool you'd need for taking care of houseplants, for those of you who've gotten serious about your houseplants.
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Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants
Here's a great book that can teach you to care for your plants organically, which will help cut down on household toxins in its own way too!
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Your turn: Am I right?
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- GeothermalVids GeothermalVids Sep 18, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
- Cool lens. I had no idea some plants could actually help clean the air.
Bill
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- gardenlady gardenlady May 2, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
- What a super lens! I have 5 large Peace Lillies, A super large Weeping Fig, and 1 small Spider plant. I had no idea I was doing such a great job keeping my air clean while fussing over something I love. 5*s and lensrolling with my Water Canning Tomatoes lens.
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- enslavedbyfaeries enslavedbyfaeries Jun 30, 2008 @ 10:52 pm
- Congratulations! Your lens was a winner on the Squids Choice Awards lens where it will be featured for the next two months! 5*
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- CherylK CherylK Jun 23, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
- This is a FABULOUS lens...I'd almost forgotten about these particular benefits of plants. Love it! I'm going to lensroll it.
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- GypsyPirate GypsyPirate Dec 5, 2007 @ 12:37 am
- Great info - definitely a best ever!
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