Green Power: Air Quality Systems

Blame the weather: according to studies, the average Canadian spends over 80% of their lives indoors – at home and at the workplace. And risk to our health is only a breath away. The air that we inhale everyday is a source of growing concern – with indoor air shown to contain a rising tide of toxic chemicals, particles, and biological contaminants – further concentrated by lack of air circulation. The poor quality of our indoor air is a frontline environmental issue that affects us all.

What can we do? The answer is: plenty. Perhaps the most innovative solution comes from nature itself – using plants as organic biofilters to clear the air. This is the concept behind a unique Canadian product, Naturaire®: a Living Wall of sub-tropical plant life designed to filter and purify the air in our homes, offices and industrial workplaces. These self-sustaining plant ecosystems can effectively remove up to 90% of over 500 different kinds of biological pollutants from the air – with no trace or waste left behind.

Naturaire® is a proudly homegrown technology with its roots in Ontario, developed by researcher, Dr. Alan Darlington, and his group at the University of Guelph. The most effective indoor environmental biofiltration system on the planet, Dr. Darlington raised his Living Wall from seed to marketplace with the guiding hand of Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).

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