Healthy Indoor Spaces

Explore healthy indoor air topics—PM2.5, allergens, odors, smoke, and viruses—plus practical steps for safer spaces.

How To Protect Yourself From Wildfire Smoke

Illustrated cross-section of a home during a wildfire smoke event showing a man locking the front door to seal out brown hazy smoke while two people sit comfortably inside with clean blue air flowing from ceiling-mounted air purification vents.

Wildfire smoke can quickly impact your health, especially indoors. Knowing how to protect yourself from wildfire smoke starts with limiting indoor exposure to harmful fine particles. Sealing your home, creating a clean-air room, and improving air filtration can significantly reduce…

How To Reduce Indoor Allergens

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Knowing how to reduce indoor allergens starts with understanding ways to limit exposure by identifying sources, reducing reservoirs, and filtering the air. The goal of allergen relief is often more about managing and reducing sources than sterilizing your home. If…

How To Eliminate Household Odors

What are odors?

Sometimes, life stinks. Musty carpet, wet dog, old cooking grease, the trash you let sit a day too long—it all adds up. And while these unappealing aromas are all a normal part of everyday life, there’s no reason to let…

How Viruses Spread: Reducing Airborne Viruses Indoors

Cross-section illustration of a modern living room showing a family of four with visible red particles representing airborne virus transmission throughout the space via air circulation patterns from HVAC and ceiling fan

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors, making it important to reduce viral exposure in our homes and workplaces. Viruses commonly spread through airborne aerosols, respiratory droplets, and contaminated surfaces, so improving…

How Air Ionization Works

Air Purification Process

How does air ionization work? Have you ever noticed how fresh the air smells after a good thunderstorm with lots of lightning? Well, nature has a way of purifying the air we breathe through complex chemistry involving plasma and ions.…

Environmental Health and Wellness

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Environmental health and wellness is related to the surroundings you occupy. This dimension of health connects your overall well-being to the health of your environment. Your environment can greatly impact how you feel. Air Quality – In the last several…

2022 is the Year of the Healthy Home

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Healthy Homes Climate change and air pollution awareness have coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic to dramatically increase consumer demand for healthy homes – even more individuals see the need for air cleaning products and expect their indoor air products to…

Seek a Healthier Way of Living

SONA Air Purifier

For over 20 years To The Rescue, totherescue.net, has focused on the well-being of individuals by providing services that make a difference in their lives. And for eight years we have been building healthy living homes as part of our…