Washington County's feet are planted firmly in the future. With its plethora of 18th- and 19th-century homes, Washington County evokes the small-town charm of yesteryear. But the community is hardly behind the times. (read full article)
Americans spend an estimated
90 percent of their time indoors.
The majority of the public does
not realize that indoor air pollution
is an urgent risk to their
health. In 2005 the Surgeon
General’s Workshop on Healthy
Indoor Air highlighted that construction
practices are being
introduced with little understanding
of the indoor environments
and the health of the occupants. (read full article)
In a world where factories, cars, buses and planes discharge pollutants every day, many people don't realize that the air inside a home may be two to five times more polluted than the air outside, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. (read full article)
Jim Parks, a 62-year-old telecommunications retiree from northern Virginia, already had settled on retiring in Arizona, after a five-year search,
when a Nature Conservancy meeting in this southwest Virginia hamlet made him change his
mind. (read full article)
A planned 200-house development will be the first in Southwest Virginia built according to the American Lung Association’s Health House standards. (read full article)
Discovering Abingdon Mountain Homes • Early Summer 2007 Issue • By Elizabeth Barbour
