Electrosensitivity 

Housing and Refuges

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            see also: Shielding, Protection and Earthing

Housing

1. Tiny Houses

This movement aims to create small homes on trailers which can be moved to different locations to avoid chemical or electromagnetic pollution.

A tiny house with reduced chemical and electrical pollution, on a tralier 20 by 8 feet, weighing 10,000 pounds, may cost up to $75,000, about double the usual price for a trailer house without such protection.

• My Chemical Free House
• "My Chemical-Free House Tour of my Non-Toxic Tiny House" (2015)
  
• Tiny Nest Project

2. Protection within the home

• Building Biology Guidelines (2008)
• Oram Miller: "Cell Phones, Wi-Fi and the Wiring in Your Home: EMF Hazards and Solutions" (Cancer Control Society Convention, 2013)

3. Protection from ELF and wiring

• EMFcentre.com
• Healthy Building  Science

4. EMF reduced housing

• Eva Otto “Seattle’s First EMF-Reduced Homes Debut in the Central District” (Capitol Hill Seattle, March 30 2015)
  
• David Chazan: "The Swiss flats where smoking, painting and mobile phones are banned" (Daily Telegraph, April 6 2014)
  ​Solène Cordier: "Switzerland: Zurich: The First European Refuge for Electrosensitive People" (Le Monde, August 12 2014 (translated in Towards Better Health, August 15 2014)
  
• Grand Designs New Zealand: Series 2 Episode 2 (October 2 2016, 44 mins, New Plymouth couple Greg Whitham and Gayle Avery want to create a rustic French farmhouse-style home for their extended family using hemp as a building material and with electromagnetic shielding for the master bedroom, but this presents numerous challenges.)
  
• Noémie Guignard: “Des immeubles blindés pour protéger les électro-hypersensibles” [Armored buildings to protect electro-hypersensitive people] [French] (RTS, February 14 2021;
  “Switzerland: Shielded Buildings to Protect Electrohypersensitive People“ (TBH, February 15 2021)
  Video: “Fribourg architect Gédéon Abebe has decided to create armored buildings for people with electrosensitivity” [French] (February 14 2021, 2 min.) 

5. Healthy houses

• "CMHC's Healthy House in Toronto" (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), completed 1996, 75 pages)

Refuges

Refuges and EMF Refugees

• Budzinski BI et al: "White zones", free from mobile phone coverage – unrealistic or required by law?” (Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht. 2015).
  
• EMF Refugee (Emfanalysis)
• Green Bank, Virginia: "Are You Allergic to Wi-Fi? 'Electromagnetic Sensitivity' Sufferers Flee to Remote West Virginia Town of Green Bank" (International Business Times, 2014)
• Kim Goldberg: Sanctuaries (Refugium: Wi-Fi Exiles & The Coming Electroplague, at electroplague.com)
• Smart Shelter Network / On A Raven's Wing: Electro-Sensitive Land Steward Program (Gary Duncan, USA)
  
• Chris Young: “Thumbs Up on Identifying a Below-Zero EMF Location for Rancho Quieto: Yes, Zero EMF Locations Do Exist” (EMF-Experts News, February 15 2021)
  
• "Zone Blanche" (France)

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