Released on = May 14, 2006, 6:32 pm

Press Release Author = David Craker - INVENTConnect

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Ecolibria and Building Biology is the way to simply
addresses a host of environmental health related problems and clearly deserves more
attention to create an awareness of how the use of chemicals and other products can
affect our lives.

Press Release Body = Have you ever wondered whether the buildings (home and work),
in which you may spend up to 90% of your time, affect your health?

Wonder what chemicals are in my environment?

Have a look at the ingredients of your packaged food, drink, toothpaste, deodorants,
cleaning products, creams, cosmetics, shampoo and soaps. Then there are all the
unlisted chemical ingredients and hazards to consider: your water, meat, chicken,
take-away food, new building materials, furnishings, mobile phones, microwaves and
stress.

Surely any potentially harmful products would not be allowed on the market?

Asbestos, many pesticides like DDT, greenhouse gases like CFC, CCA used to treat
outdoor wood products (children's playgrounds) are just some of the elements that
were considered harmless and then later regulated after many years of use.

There are in fact NO RECORDED TESTS on the long term health effects of the cocktail
of chemicals that you are exposed to everyday. Yet the meteoric rise in the
incidence of heart disease, infertility, breast cancer, asthma and allergies seem to
initiate a meteoric rise in the development of drugs to address cures as opposed to
prevention.

We haven't even touched on the effect that these chemicals have on our natural
outdoor environment!

How much is really being done to address prevention as opposed to cure? This is what
Building Biology is addressing by working in partnership with ALL health
practitioners.

Having a healthy home and workplace is a simple and cheap way of practising
prevention as opposed to cure.

It is a well known fact that our bodies are bombarded by toxic chemicals throughout
the day. Harmful emissions from new furniture, fittings, building materials and even
unflued gas heaters can all be easily and naturally avoided.

Non toxic paint, filtered water, natural cleaning and personal care products, safe
building materials, good building design and sustainable living habits, will all
help to reap health benefits for both you and the environment. In many cases the
natural alternatives are cheaper than the conventional alternatives.

Electromagnetic radiation ( EMR ) or Electromagnetic Fields ( EMF ) radiate from
many products we all use everyday and have potentially harmful effects and health
risks. Mobile phones, microwaves and electric blankets are just some of the home
hazards that can easily be remedied.

In building biology it is believed that healthy indoor environments contribute
greatly to the health of the people living and working in these built environments.


This is according to Raphael Siket, the owner of a new Australian business that
investigates home and work environments and then provides a range of low cost
treatments and solutions.

In a recent interview for a Public Interest Podcast on the topic of Building
Biology, Mr Siket informed me that \"Building Biology is an environmental science
that concerns itself with environmental causes of illness. In many European
countries like Germany and Sweden it is common to consult with a building biologist
before buying, renting or renovating a home, yet here in Australia very few people
know what building biology actually is.\"

The audio podcast, that relates to many of these common problems and the approach to
remedy them was recorded recently between David Craker and Raphael Siket and is
currently available for listening online or download at
http://ecolibria.podomatic.com/

It was the emerging awareness of the need to address these problems, discovered
through his studies in Building Biology at the Australian College of Environmental
Studies at Box Hill in Victoria, that Raphael decided to commence a new business
called ecolibria.

Mr Siket says \"ecolibria is an Australian based business that helps people to become
environmentally friendly and reduce the health risks around the home and workplace.
They do this by applying building biology principles.\"

ecolibria is able to provide environmental assessments and reports that simply
explain more startling truths about what Building Biology is and what he has been
able to do in order to eliminate and reduce the impact of many health hazards that
we are unknowingly exposed to everyday.

Raphael raised the idea that we really need to look more closely at the effects of
exposure to off gassing from products used in buildings such as the paints, glues,
compressed wood products (new kitchen cupboards, bench-tops, flooring etc), wood
treatments, foam cushions and mattresses as well as carpets

He said \"These products are used widely and raise both long and short term health
concerns, especially for infants, children and people with existing ailments.

Building Biology is the way to simply addresses these and a host of other problems
and clearly deserves more attention to create an awareness of how the use of these
products can affect our lives.

For more details about Building Biology in Australia and how you can address issues
with your personal environments at home or even at your workplace, then take a good
look at the ecolibria website at www.ecolibria.com.au or contact Mr Raphael Siket at
raphael@ecolibria.com.au or phone +61 3 9852 0848.

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Web Site = http://www.ecolibria.com.au

Contact Details = Raphael Siket
+61 3 9852 0848
+61 0432 170 195
P.O. Box 644
Templestowe, 3106 Victoria
Australia