Why Plants ?  Beautiful, healthy and well maintained plants are not only wonderful to look at, but also provide some real benefits..

• N.A.S.A  studies (see plants for clean air) have  found that Tropical (interior) plants remove many toxic fumes from our air while releasing fresh oxygen .
  
• Plants also remove many unwanted odors and if in high enough quantity help control humidity in dry areas.
  
• A well designed Plantscape can be used to control traffic or to provide a sense   of privacy in open areas.
  
• Large open areas will feel more inviting
  
• Take that echo out with some beautiful foliage-Plants make great sound absorbers.
  
• Studies have proven that work efficiency , employee morale and customer comfort levels all increase with live plants in the workspace.
  
• Plants as furniture substitutes - fill that bare area with plants instead of expensive  furniture.
  
• Finish your beautiful interior design. Try to think of a Hotel, Mall or other successful business without a great plantscape. Without the   plants it just wouldn't feel finished.  A great plantscape is to your space what a fine frame is to a work of art. Let us frame yours.
  
• Everybody likes live plants and flowers. Plants just make the indoors feel better, Got Plants?
• Plants are cool!
  
• Research
  
  Indoor Plants Clean the Air
  NASA Study, Dr. B.C. Wolverton
  
  Washington D.C.-- NASA tests reveal that living green and flowering plants clean pollutants in the air.
  
  According NASA scientist, Dr. BC Wolverton, indoor plants are the most efficient and cost effective means of removing air pollution. Wolverton recommends that "two plants per 100 square feet or two plants per a small office keep the air pure [and] healthy."
  
  A 1989 EPA Report to Congress concluded that improved indoor air quality can result in higher productivity and fewer lost workdays. The EPA estimates that poor indoor air may cost the United States tens of billions of dollars each year in lost productivity and medical care.
  

    In the midst of the energy crisis of the 1970s, those in the building industry placed a high priority on energy consumption and conservation.  As a result, both old and new buildings were made more energy efficient.  Coinciding with these measures, came a change in the use of natural building materials and furnishings to a more widespread use of synthetic materials.  While a tightly sealed building is more energy efficient, it quickly became apparent that trapped within these structures were a mix of emissions of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) from chemically formulated personal care products, carpeting, fabrics, pesticides, business machines, bioeffluents (emitted in the human breathing process) and airborne microbes.  All of these factors teamed together to create a chemical pea soup and resultant complaints of poor indoor air quality (IAQ).

       Only recently have many physicians begun to associate the increase in respiratory problems with exposure to poor indoor air quality.  Once the correlation was accepted, litigation began to wind its way through the courts against building owners, architects and others in the building industry.  As a result, insurance companies have paid millions of dollars in damages.   However, little progress has been made in mitigating the causes of poor indoor air quality.

  
  For more information visit: www.wolvertonenvironmental.com

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