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Risk, Accessibility, and the Right to Safe Air: A Conversation with Plum Stone

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Not All Faults Are Equal: A Data-Driven Guide to Prioritizing Building Maintenance for Better Air

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Building Roadmaps for Healthy Schools: The Funding Gap and What We Can Do About It

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Green Buildings: Solar Panels on the Titanic - David Gottfried

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Packed in Metal Tubes: How Smart Exhaust Systems Could Transform Air Quality on Trains

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Is Peer Review Built on Sand? Why the 'Gold Standard' May Be Failing Air Quality Science

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Smart Cars, Cleaner Streets: How Hybrid Vehicles Could Read and React to Pollution Hotspots

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When Windows Become Hazards: How Heat Waves and Ozone Are Changing Indoor Air - #OT53

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Ten Lessons from Indoor Air 2026 and a summer of conversation.

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From Vikings to Cowboys: How a Simple Story Made Kids 12x More Likely to Cool Down - #OT52

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From Aristotle to AI: Rethinking What 'Optimal' Really Means in Buildings - Ardeshir Mahdavi

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When Heat Waves Meet Ozone: Why 1+1=3 for Stroke Mortality - #OT51

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From Infection Control to Indoor Air: The Global South Can't Wait Another Decade

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Beyond Asthma: Why Damp Homes Are a Mental Health Crisis We Can Measure - #OT50

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From Presidency to Practice: Bill McQuade on Putting People at the Center of Buildings - #122

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Desk Fans vs. Giant Chillers: Rethinking HVAC Through PECs - #OT49

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Politicians, Pandemics and PM2.5: Turning Air Quality Science Into Policy - Lydia Morawska

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The Celtic Tiger's Toxic Legacy: How Rapid Construction Baked Dampness Into Irish Homes - #OT48

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Catch Me If You Can: Why We're Always One Step Behind the Next Pathogen - #OT47

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Beyond Grants and Targets: The Human Side of Retrofitting 500,000 Irish Homes

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From Reactive to Proactive: Designing Air Quality Sensors That Residents Actually Want - #OT46

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Sick Buildings to Smart Sensors: How IAQ Evolved Over Two Decades - Indoor Air 2026 Preview

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Wet Towels, Cold Rooms: The Hidden Physics of Indoor Laundry Drying - #OT45

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Why the Future of Healthy Buildings Is About Meeting People Where They Are - Rachel Hodgdon 118

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The Blinking Light Problem: Why Handing Teachers CO2 Monitors Isn't Enough - #OT44

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Beyond Particulates: How Gas Phase Filtration Protects Everything From Data Centers to Lungs 117

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The Wrong Corner: How Air Purifier Placement Can Increase Infection Risk OT43

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[DELETED ON YOUTUBE] Future Solutions and Public Affairs: Innovation of Policy and Product - Mikael Börjesson #116

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The Physics of Fresh Air: Natural Ventilation Still Works in 2025 - Ben Jones #115

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The White Box Problem: Why Most Air Purifiers Are Designed to Confuse You - Danny Ashton #114

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Weighing Dust vs. Counting Danger: Why PM2.5 Misses the Deadliest Particles - OT42

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Show Up and Breathe: The Slam Dunk ROI That Still Needs an Energy Story to Sell - Jason Jones #113

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The Science is Settled, But Who's Paying the Bill? UK School Air Quality Guidance 2026 - OT41

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Finish Line Problem: Defining What Healthy Buildings Mean for Human Bodies - Stephanie Taylor #112

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Federal and State Policy: The Missing Piece in the Indoor Air Quality Puzzle - OT40

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Free Radicals, Diesel Particles, and the War Zone in Your Lungs - Frank Kelly #111

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The Human Nose vs. The Lab: Testing Air Cleaners That Actually Improve Indoor Air Quality - OT39

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Sheep's Wool, Formaldehyde, and the Chemical Experiment in Your Living Room - Mark Lynn #110

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Stuffy Rooms, One-Star Reviews: The Commercial Reality of Poor Indoor Air Quality - OT38

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The Edifice Complex: Why Your Building Probably Doesn't Work and Nobody Cares - Adam Mugleton #109

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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Your Air Quality Models Are Only as Good as Your Data - OT37

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Beyond HVAC: Why Dehumidification Deserves the D - David Shirk #108

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From Fear to Action: Why Culture Shapes Air Quality Decisions in Germany vs Portugal - OT36

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From Dust to Disease: The Hidden Respiratory Risks in Construction - Angie Brooker #107

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Mold, Confidence, and Change: What Actually Drives Air Quality Behavior - OT35

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Platinum Plaques and Broken Fans: The Gap Between Air Quality Theater and Reality 106 Simon Jones

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Trust the Messenger: Why Air Quality Data Fails Without Public Confidence - OT34

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The Silent Epidemic: COPD and the 3.5 Million Deaths No One Talks About - José Luis Castro #105

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Making the Invisible Visible: How Real-Time Air Monitors Cut Indoor Pollution by 34% - OT33

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Disclosure to Performance: Indoor Air Quality in Real Estate with Parag Cameron-Rastogi - #104

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The Psychology of Air Quality - Why Technical Solutions Aren't Enough OT32

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Fast Cheap and Good - Pick Any Two: Housing with John O'Connor and Neil Fresh Water #103

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OT31: Fighting Fire With Fire - The Hidden Health Cost of Preventing Wildfires

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From Thermal Comfort to Heat Stress: Buildings That Don't Overheat with Paul O'Sullivan - #102

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OT30: Beyond the Numbers - What 95 Remote Workers Reveal About Home Office Wellbeing

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Breaking Down Silos: Why Industry-Academia Collaboration Is Key - #101 Bart Cremers

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OT29: From Every Minute to Every Hour - What 4 Years of Data Reveals About Sensor Placement

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Max Sherman: 100 Episodes, 40 Years of Research, and the Future of Indoor Air Quality - #100

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OT28: The Great Indoors - Why Australia's First Indoor Air Report Changes Everything

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Esther Sternberg: From Immune Response to Healing Spaces - The Science of Well-Being - #99

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OT27: The $110 Million Return - Why School Air Quality Is Our Best Investment

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#98 - The Housing Crisis vs. Climate Change: Europe's Impossible Decision? with Stijn Renneboog

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OT26: The $9.5 Billion Contradiction - Why We Fund Fossil Fuels Over Clean Air

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#97 - Inside the UN's Historic Indoor Air Quality Pledge with Georgia Lagoudas & Bronwyn King

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One Take #25: From 57% to 75% - How Home Ventilation Transforms Adult Asthma Outcomes

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#96 - Don't Look Up: How World Ventilate Day Is Fighting Apathy in Indoor Air Quality

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One Take #24: Association vs. Causation - Why Proving Mold Makes You Sick Is So Hard

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#95 - Chandra Sekhar: From Singapore to Ireland: How Different Climates Shape Our Approach

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One Take #23: Why Wall Street is Betting on Healthy Buildings (And You Should Too)

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The Ventilation Reset: Bill Bahnfleth on ASHRAE 241 and Building Health Post-Pandemic

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One Take #22: From Lab Tests to Leaks - Why Doctors Say Focus on Dampness, Not Spores

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#93 - Janet Price: The Far UVC Revolution

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One Take #21: Jordan Peterson, Mold Diagnosis & The CIRS Controversy Explained

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#92 - Tanya Kaur Bedi: Healthy Buildings India 2025 Part 3: The Inhalable Diet

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One Take #20: The €6 Billion Question - Why Fixing Mold Doesn't Pay (But We're Missing the Point)

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#91 - Healthy Buildings India 2025 Part 2: With Researchers and Industry

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One Take #19: The Hidden Gap Between School Ventilation Upgrades and Real Performance

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Technical Note 68 Revisited: How Residential Ventilation & Health Research Has Evolved

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One Take #18: Why Simple IAQ Mandates Won't Save Us - The Complex Reality of Global Air Standards

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#88 Richard Blakeway: Damp, Mould, and the Balance of Power and Fairness

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One Take #17: The Mold-Asthma Connection

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#89 - Healthy Buildings India 2025 Part 1: With Students and Industry

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One Take #16 - The False Promise of Indoor Comfort: Why Current Building Standards May Be Harming Our Health

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#87 - Maxime Interbrick: Street-Level Intelligence Is Changing How We See Cities

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One Take #15 - Questioning the Questionnaire

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#86 - Sir Stephen Holgate: Beyond the Lungs: How Air Pollution Affects Your Entire Body

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One Take #14 - Healthy Buildings Command Higher Rents, But Location Matters More

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#85 - Liam Bates : Clean Air, Clear Vision: Inside Air Quality Monitoring

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One Take #13 - Clean Air Crisis: A Breath Of Fresh Air Report

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#84 - Sarah Daly: Building Better: The Future of Sustainable Housing and Healthy Buildings

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One Take #12 - Pandemic Air Math: When Average Just Won't Cut It

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#83 - Andrew Sutton: The Long Game: Quality, Risk, and Scaling Sustainable Housing

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One Take #11 - Turning Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors into Compliance Tools

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#82 - Vinod Kumar Sekar: From Healthcare to Hyderabad: Hosting ISIAC 2025

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One Take #10 - Invisible Danger, Visible Results: Democratizing Radon Measurement

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#81 - Nathan Wood: The Ventilation Crisis Nobody's Talking About And How We Fix It?

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One Take #9 - What Makes People Actually Use Air Quality Apps

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#80 Abigail Whitehouse: When a child can't breathe, everything else stops.

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One Take #8 - Passive House Reality Check

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#79 - Stefan Flagner: Clean Air Economics