ATP stands for adenosine triphosphate, the energy-carrying molecule in living and dead cells, microorganisms and other organic matter—formed when adenine attaches to ribose (forming adenosine) joined to a three-phosphate group (triphosphate).

Rafael Aguayo, author of Dr. Deming: The American who Taught the Japanese About Quality, described a Deming lecture he attended at Brown University:

According to the book, Small is Beautiful in the 21st Century, "Ernst Friederich (Fritz) Schumacher, the economist-philosopher, was an unlikely pioneer of the Green Movement. He was born in Bonn in 1911, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and returned to England before the Second World War to avoid living under Nazism.

According to Michael Rubino, author of The Mold Medic, there is no escaping exposure to mold as it exists almost everywhere outdoors, and every time you open an exterior door or window, you let some inside.

Mopping is convenient but not optimal. It relates to cleaning floors the way a damp washcloth relates to bathing yourself; i.e., if you want to get really clean, take a bath or shower. Still, here are the steps to mop [...]

When Shel [Horowitz] was a high school student in New York City, he learned that bicycling the five hilly miles to his school on his 3-speed was generally faster than taking the bus the long way around, and almost always [...]

While, in general, ventilation is a helpful way to exhaust polluted indoor air and replace it with fresher outdoor air, there are times when it’s a bad idea; notably when outdoor air is dirtier than indoor air. The American Lung [...]

The indoor environment is complex as are the mechanical factors involved. Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems (aka, HVAC units) are often poorly managed for heating and cooling: vents may be blocked; moisture levels unmonitored; ventilation lacking; and the open/closed [...]