Bringing plants into your home, school or office space just might help ease the transition from summer days spent outdoors to post-Labor Days spent inside.
Not only are green scenes known to increase hospital recovery time, having a plant to look at in your workspace can relieve stress, spruce things up, increase energy and productivity, improve attitude and produce uncanny effects like relief from computer-induced eyestrain. Don’t just take it from us, a whole organization, Green Plants for Green Buildings, has the word on this.
That’s not all. According to the EPA, indoor air is often much more polluted than what’s wafting outside our windows.
Here again, plants to the rescue! Certain potted plants clean up what we’re breathing with their amazing power to absorb toxins and release pristine, healthy oxygen for us to breathe easier—just the same way trees do it outdoors. Even NASA says so.
Check out this smattering of the most effective indoor plants to clean out chemicals from your indoor air that may also increase your good work and good times.
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