Message from our Executive Director

What's New at Our Institute as Yearend Approaches

Our website’s revised Home Page now features an exciting new functionality! Choose “Start Here” on one of two panels that most closely describes you and launch your journey into free information you consider most personally vital. You’ll get an opportunity to sign up for our free 5-part Building Biology email series that includes a trove of even more freebees and a link to a free chat with a certified practicing Building Biologist. Click here to begin your deeply meaningful sojourn.

Longtime Building Biologist, architect, and former BBI board member Paula Baker-Laporte discusses what makes homes “healthy” in the Positive Energy podcast. Talking with Kristof Irwin, PE, M. Eng., Paula discusses her journey to healthy architecture, Building Biology, her book Prescriptions for a Healthy House, and so much more! Check it out by clicking here for a deeply personal exploration with Paula.

Building Biologist Lisa C. Smith, EMRS shares her personal victories in raising awareness among parents and teachers in Tucson, Arizona of the impacts of ubiquitous wireless radiation in classrooms on students’ learning, behavior and health. Read her inspiring and compelling story by clicking here and gain an opportunity to further those parents’ and teachers’ mission.

Our brand new online course: Designing a Home for Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, written by Paula Baker-Laporte (now famous) and architect Andrea Allen Sis. While everyone deserves a home and workplace free of environmental hazards, it is especially crucial for those who suffer from multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS). This course offers suggestions for the special home design needs of people living with MCS. Read more about this comprehensive online self-study course and enroll today by clicking here.

Our final seminar of 2023 is currently underway led by senior instructors Larry Gust and Rob Metzinger with support from our mighty team of lab leaders, each one seasoned by years of Building Biology practice in the field, led by our own inimitable Oram Miller, BBEC, EMRS. Please join me in expressing best wishes to all involved as our Electromagnetic Radiation Seminar begins its 37th annual session!

Our first seminar of 2024 is already half full and seating is strictly limited so enroll of submit a deposit to reserve your seat today! Co-instructors Paula Baker-Laporte and Stephen Collette look forward to greeting you for their 24thannual session of our Building Biology/Building Physics Seminar. The dates are 15 through 19 April 2024; our beautiful lakefront venue is Kanuga Retreat & Conference center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Click here to enroll or submit a deposit to reserve your seat today!

Coming soon, our new advanced-level seminarIBE 311, Indoor Air & Water Quality Tools and Practices. Co-instructors: Stephen Collette (author) and Cathy Cooke.

Our 16-module EMR webinar series is live online, featuring a deeply comprehensive series of sixteen videos on how to identify and mitigate Microsurge Electrical Pollution (MEP), aka Dirty Electricity. All 16 modules are available, written and produced by Advanced EMR Seminar co-instructor Mitch Marchand, EE, EMRS. Mitch’s 16 modules convey 10 BBI Continuing Education Units (CEUs). To learn more and to enroll click here.

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