Brain Fog: Does Air Pollution Make Us Less Productive? | Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 127, No. 5
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Associations between classroom CO2 concentrations and student attendance in Washington and Idaho – PubMed
This study provides motivation for larger school studies to investigate associations of student attendance, and occupant health and student performance, with longer term indoor minus outdoor CO(2) concentrations and more accurately measured ventilation rates. If our findings are confirmed, improving…
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Cognitive Function Test Scores Doubled
The COGfx Study demonstrated that improved indoor environmental quality doubled cognitive function test scores in the 24 study participants. Of note, participants’ cognitive performance scores averaged 101 percent higher in green buildings with enhanced ventilation compared to those in conventional…
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Elevated Indoor Carbon Dioxide Impairs Decision-Making Performance
Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that moderately high indoor concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) can significantly impair people’s decision-making performance. The results were unexpected and may have particular implicatio…
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All That Hot Air In Meetings Makes Us Dumber (And The Reason Why Will Shock You)
Long-winded meetings are worse than you thought. Because while our minds are numbed by the metaphorical hot air wafting through the room, the literal air is polluted by ever-higher levels of carbon dioxide. And when those CO2 levels get high enough, our cognitive skills actually decline.
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Could Your Conference Rooms Be A Cause For Bad Decisions?
Studies suggest high levels of CO2 can result in decreased cognitive function.
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The Carbon Dioxide in a Crowded Room Can Make You Dumber
If you’ve felt lethargic and dull while sitting in a packed classroom recently, you may have assumed that it had something to do with the content of your teacher’s lecture. But it might actually be something in the air.
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Dozing off in a meeting? It could be the air.
Ever sit in a meeting or lecture wondering why time slows down to an agonizing pace and your eyelids suddenly feel as if they weigh two tons? You’re not alone, and you just might be pin your suffering on the 21st Century’s most infamous molecule.
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Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers: A Controlled Exposure Study of Green and Conventional Office Environments | Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 124, No. 6
Background:The indoor built environment plays a critical role in our overall well-being because
of both the amount of time we spend indoors (~90%) and the ability of buildings to
positively or negatively influence our health. The advent of sustainable design or
green building strategies reinvigorate…
of both the amount of time we spend indoors (~90%) and the ability of buildings to
positively or negatively influence our health. The advent of sustainable design or
green building strategies reinvigorate…
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The CO2 in your meeting is making you dumber
If you find yourself feeling a little less sharp during a long, stuffy meeting, it may not be your imagination.
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Carbon dioxide levels on flight deck affect airline pilot performance
For immediate release: August 8, 2018 Boston, MA – Commercial airline pilots were significantly better at performing advanced maneuvers in a flight simulator when carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on the…
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Crowd oil not crude oil – Nature Communications
Climate change represents an existential, global threat to humanity, yet its delocalized nature complicates climate action. Here, the authors propose retrofitting air conditioning units as integrated, scalable, and renewable-powered devices capable of decentralized CO2 conversion and energy democrat…
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Pulling CO2 out of the air and using it could be a trillion-dollar business
Meet “carbon capture and utilization,” which puts CO2 to work making valuable products.
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What does air pollution do to our bodies?
The countdown begins to the launch of one of the world’s boldest attempts to tackle air pollution.
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CO2 Affects our Thinking
Did you know that elevated levels of carbon dioxide or CO2 can play havoc with our cognitive ability? In today’s world it becomes all the…
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Sick Building Syndrome: Is Your Office Making You Ill? (Infographic) | Paint Inspection
Sick Building Syndrome is a phenomenon where people who spend time in particular buildings (normally offices) start to develop a range of symptoms, including headaches, nausea and dizziness. It’s believed to be a result of office environmental factors. Learn more from this infographic by Paint Inspe…
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Indoor CO2: Dumb and dumber? » Yale Climate Connections
What if high levels of indoor CO2 can impair humans’ decisionmaking skills. Scientists ponder yet a new down side to burning fossil fuels.
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Impacts of Indoor Air Quality on Cognitive Function
Impacts of Indoor Air Quality on Cognitive Function The Global CogFx study, a research project conducted among 302 office workers in six countries (China, India, Mexico, Thailand, the UK and the US…
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Climate change could make us dumber… literally
Some might argue that mankind’s gradual destruction of planet Earth is proof that we’re not the smartest species around. I mean, how smart can we really be if we, as a species, refuse to correct our wrongs in the most dramatic way possible? Yeah, we’re not terribly smart. Now, new research shows tha…
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Is Your Office Making You Dumb?
Can’t think straight? High levels of carbon dioxide in your office could be clouding your mind , according to a new study at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In the study, researchers gave 22 people a decision-making test in a simulated office environment while the concentration of CO 2 in…
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Can increased outdoor CO2 concentrations impact on the ventilation and energy in buildings? A case study in Shanghai, China
This study presents that increases in atmospheric CO2 levels impact the ventilation and energy in buildings. The most significant impact of ventilatio…
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Direct human health risks of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide – Nature Sustainability
A review of studies on exposure to elevated CO2 concentrations in air suggests that health damages, such as inflammation or reductions in cognitive abilities, can occur at levels as low as 1,000 ppm.
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High indoor CO2 concentrations in an office environment increases the transcutaneous CO2 level and sleepiness during cognitive work – PubMed
The purpose of this study is to perform a multiparametric analysis on the environmental factors, the physiological stress reactions in the body, the measured alertness, and the subjective symptoms during simulated office work. Volunteer male subjects were monitored during three 4-hr work meetings in…
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The effects of bedroom air quality on sleep and next-day performance – PubMed
The effects of bedroom air quality on sleep and next-day performance were examined in two field-intervention experiments in single-occupancy student dormitory rooms. The occupants, half of them women, could adjust an electric heater to maintain thermal comfort but they experienced two bedroom ventil…
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Classroom conditions and CO2 concentrations and teacher health symptom reporting in 10 New York State Schools
This study assessed the relationship between teacher-reported symptoms and classroom carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. Previous studies have suggested that poor indoor ventilation can result in hi…
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Some Quantitative Relations between Indoor Environmental Quality and Work Performance or Health
Poor indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has been related to increases in sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms, respiratory illnesses, sick leave, and loss in productivity. Calculations indicate th…
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Relationship between carbon dioxide levels and reported headaches on the international space station – PubMed
Although headache incidence was not high, results suggest an increased susceptibility to physiological effects of CO(2) in-flight.
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Is CO2 an Indoor Pollutant? Direct Effects of Low-to-Moderate CO2 Concentrations on Human Decision-Making Performance
Background: Associations of higher indoor carbon dioxide (CO[2] ) concentrations with impaired work performance, increased health symptoms, and poorer perceived air quality have been attributed to correlation of indoor CO[2] with concentrations of other …
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Ventilation rates in schools and pupils’ performance
This paper is a development of our earlier work [5], [6], [11]. The effects of classroom ventilation on pupils’ performance were investigated in 8 pri…
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Office workers’ sick building syndrome and indoor carbon dioxide concentrations – PubMed
This study attempted to determine whether any association exists between sick building syndrome (SBS) and indoor carbon dioxide (CO(2)) concentrations. We evaluated SBS among 111 office workers in August and November 2003. The environmental conditions in the office, including CO(2) concentrations, t…
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The Effect of Low Ventilation Rates on the Cognitive Function of a Primary School Class
Several studies have suggested that recommended ventilation rates are not being met within schools. However these studies have not included an evaluation of whether or not this failure might have a…
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Defining the link between indoor environment and workplace productivity in a modern UK office building
Most studies linking indoor environments and productivity have been conducted in controlled, static conditions often unrepresentative of the real world. This paper uses a case-study-based, real-wor…
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Exploring the physiological, neurophysiological and cognitive performance effects of elevated carbon dioxide concentrations indoors
An accumulation of CO2 in occupied indoor spaces is correlated to negative impacts on concentration, sleepiness and aspects of cognitive performance. …
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Building occupants’ psycho-physiological response to indoor climate and CO2 concentration changes in office buildings
As people spend more time indoors, it is important to identify the relationship between indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and building occupants’ hea…
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Fossil Fuel Combustion Is Driving Indoor CO2 Toward Levels Harmful to Human Cognition | Semantic Scholar
It is concluded that indoor CO2 levels may indeed reach levels harmful to cognition by the end of this century, and the best way to prevent this hidden consequence of climate change is to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Human activities are elevating atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations to levels…
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