Article “Passive houses aggressively reduce energy” boasts:
“ ‘It’s like living in a glass thermos,’ says John Eckfeldt, a physician who built one of these ‘passive’ homes in frigid Isabella, Minn. He says the inside temperature is so even that if he sees snow falling, he’s surprised to realize it must be cold outside.”
WATCHDOG: Yeah, sure. But it’s more like living full time on an airplane with no fresh air and all the toxins from furnishings and germs from guests remaining in doors.
A healthy environment requires a certain amount of circulation of fresh air. We suspect that one of the reasons that so many of the children suffer from allergies, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyper disorder today is the over insulating of houses starting in the 1970s. GROWL!
