Volume 6 No. 7 December 2018
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4 | TABLE OF CONTENTS — December 2018
8 | COVER STORY:
Mold: Taking a Closer
Look
You've likely heard a bunch
about indoor mold over the
past several years--from
deadly toxic hysteria to total
dismissal by purported ex-
perts. Healthy Indoors takes
a closer look in this month's
Cover Story.
6 | Editorial
14 | The True Cost of Paper in Environmental
Consulting by J. Brent Kynoch, President,
Kynoch Environmental Management, Inc.
20 | May's Ways
Jeffrey May's monthly column on
improving your indoor environments.
24 | Home Performance Minute.
26 | Building Science Rx
32 | Ask Dr. Alice
34 | The HI Show
36 | IAQ Live Wire — Healthy Indoors virtual
industry newsroom.
38 | MOMS Clean Air Force News
42 | IAQ Radio — Listen to the online weekly
radio show and its archived episodes.
46 | The HI Forum — Comments & Discussions
from our Online Community
48 | Events Calendar
Find out about Industry Events
20 | Why is Relative Hum idity Important?
Mold and other microbes, including
mites, can flourish when the relative
humidity (RH) is higher than 80%.
It's therefore important to understand
what RH is and how elevated levels
of RH develop. This is the topic for
December's May's Ways from IAQ-
industry veteran, Jeffrey May.
26 | 7 Reasons Your Filter
Isn't Improving Your
Indoor Air Quality
Columnist Allison Bailes
discusses some of the top
reasons your HVAC filtration
isn't quite getting the job
done in the latest installment
of our Building Science Rx.
