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Moving to a new home is a great way to ring in the new year. What better way to get a fresh start for 2015 than switching up your surroundings? Whether you’re buying or renting a new home, it’s always a good idea to schedule a consultation with H2 Environmental. We’ll thoroughly evaluate any residential or commercial property to ensure that your health won’t be put at risk by living there. Especially since many of us spend the majority of our time indoors, it’s incredibly important to make sure our homes are safe and sound.

We’ll check for asbestos,…

Want to kill mold without killing the environment? These products can help.

Mold contamination is serious business. Left unchecked, mold growth can not only ruin your indoor air by filling it with allergens, but also damage your furnishings, building materials, and even structural elements. Naturally, you want to eliminate mold growth on your property. However, you don’t want to substitute one kind of indoor air contaminant for another, as may occur if chemical mold killers are used without proper ventilation and safeguards.

Here are some environmentally friendly products that can help in the fight against mold.

Tea Tree Oil: This natural fungicide works well as a mold killer to combat…

5 cities destroyed by massive environmental contamination.

Cities that have been all but deserted due to massive environmental contamination seem to hold a strange fascination for many people. In addition to the appeal to the imagination, these ruined cities are worth remembering for the lessons they teach about the consequences of the failure to identify and manage risks posed by industrial activities involving hazardous materials. Here are 5 of the most infamous such contaminated cities.

Pripyat, Ukraine

While many people may not have heard of the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, they have almost certainly heard of the disaster that destroyed it, namely Chernobyl. Pripyat was contaminated by a huge plume of…