Healthy Homes For You Blog

You are probably familiar with the Eskaton name as the
leading provider of senior housing and social services in Northern California.  I had the pleasure of attending Eskaton's VIP Grand Opening Event last week to show off their new National Demonstration Home. 

Eskaton's National Demonstration home is a first-of-its-kind home that incorporates "Universal Design" principles that make the home friendlier to seniors than traditional home design.  Unique features such as wider hallways, level-flooring transitions, multilevel work surfaces, zero threshold showers, occupancy sensor lighting, accessible cabinetry, security system with visual and audible alerts, remote wellness monitoring and communication and much, much more. 

The Eskaton National Demonstration home, certified by Green Built Homes of America, incorporates green and healthy features.  It uses advanced indoor air quality filtration and ventilation by Allergen Safe Homes, which creates hospital quality airflow in the home.  It has solar power, tank-less water heaters, high efficiency lighting, GreenGuard Certified insulation, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems.

Builders and designers can be licensed by the Eskaton-Certified Home^TM Program.  The license gives them a full suite of design specifications and permission to use the nationally recognized Eskaton name in marketing and sales literature.

Eskaton's Demonstation Home is open for tours.  For more information, send an email to demohome@eskaton.org or call 1-888-933-6646.  Visit their website at www.demohome.org for more information.

Environmentally Yours,


Nancy Lancaster is a Realtor and Ecobroker practicing in the greater Sacramento region for Lyon Real Estate .  Visit Nancy Lancaster website to find homes for sale in Sacramento.  Nancy Lancaster sponsors a unique program called "Healthy Homes For You".

There are a few times when it's just not cool to flush the toilet!

Here are the top Seven examples when not to flush the toilet...(the important stuff is at the end!)

7.  When your child is playing in the toilet...

6.   When you wallet falls into the toilet..

5.  When you use your toilet to mail bills..





4.  When you're washing your clothes..




3.  When an elephant is using your toilet..

 
2.  When you live in a toilet house..




#1.    When you're done with your prescription medicines!!

 "Potty Jokes"  aside....it's really bad for the environment when prescription medicines are disposed in the toilet.  Water from our homes travels through the sewer systems to a Water treatment plant.  However, Water Treatment Plants do not remove drugs from waste water.. Therefore, the drug latent water from our homes pollute our rivers and streams.  There are measurable levels of all kinds of prescription drugs in our rivers and streams.

Many local, regional, state and federal agencies have started the "No Drugs Down the Drain campaign in California.  You can find where local events are happening in your community at http://www.nodrugsdownthedrain.org/.  Also, check with your local Environmental Health Offices in your community for more environmentally friendly options.

 Environmentally Yours,

Nancy Lancaster is a Realtor and Ecobroker practicing in the greater Sacramento region for Lyon Real Estate .  Visit Nancy Lancaster website to find homes for sale in Sacramento.  Nancy Lancaster sponsors a unique program called "Healthy Homes For You".

It looks like the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is really cracking down on failure to notify renters and buyers of possible lead exposure.  The USEPA fined a San Francisco based landloard $25,000 for not providing lead disclosures to tennants who lived in pre-1978 housing units in Sacramento, CA.

It's important that homeowners and renters know that the paint in their home might contain lead.  Lead is particularly harmful to babies and children.  It can permanently damage their gorwing brains an central nervous system.  

Parents could unknownly expose their children to high lead levels.  For example, by sanding painted surfaces, allowing lead dust into the air or to settle of surfaces were small children or toddlers would be exposed.  Paint chips that fall on the floor or outside could also be ingested by smaill children.

See the entire News Release from USEPA at http://www.GoLyonGreen.com/CustomContent.aspx?ID=5597&fp=4083

 Environmentally Yours,

Nancy Lancaster is a Realtor and Ecobroker practicing in the greater Sacramento region for Lyon Real Estate .  Visit Nancy Lancaster website to find homes for sale in Sacramento.  Nancy Lancaster sponsors a unique program called "Healthy Homes For You".