March 2026

Why Indoor Air Quality Is Becoming a Major Home Health Priority

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Indoor Air Quality Benefits

For many homeowners, comfort used to mean a warm house in winter and cool air during the summer months. Today, however, comfort means something more. Increasingly, homeowners are thinking about the quality of the air inside their homes and how it affects their health, sleep, and daily well-being.

The average person spends roughly 90 percent of their time indoors, according to environmental health research. Because of that, the air inside our homes plays a far greater role in overall wellness than most people realize. Dust, allergens, humidity, and ventilation issues can quietly affect indoor environments in ways that aren’t always obvious at first.

As awareness of indoor air quality grows, more homeowners are paying closer attention to how their homes manage airflow, filtration, and humidity.

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Iran’s Inevitable Incursion

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On November 4, 1979, “students”   took over the U.S. embassy in Iran and held the occupants of the embassy for 444 days. In case you were not aware, the taking of an embassy is, by international law, an act of war. Officials of the Iranian government allowed the occupation, taking, as far as anyone can tell, no efforts to relieve the situation.  What nation would allow “students” to overtake an embassy (under international law, an act of war) for 444 days?

Operation Eagle Claw, an effort to rescue the hostages in April of 1980 failed due to numerous failures too intricate to describe here. Iran freed our embassy personnel on January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. While hindsight is easy, there is still considerable speculation that if Jimmy Carter had been able to free the hostages, he might have won the presidential election for another term.

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