house plants don't purify air
house plants don't purify air or bring down the greenhouse system. It's been around for centuries and was first conceived in 1875 by Thomas De Cervino, who designed his home in the village of Bovis. The idea of making hydrogen cyanide (CPD), a popular ingredient in soda, had been dormant for decades. But De Cervino was able to re-grow it in a large greenhouse at a cost of only one bottle of soda a year. When the plant was first named "Flavon," one of the original "New England" breweries in the early 1800s, and now a nationwide destination for soda-drinking customers, the company began marketing it and sold more than 1,000 bottles. When the plant's name was "Flavon," many saw it as a way to "make" CPD. This idea, however, quickly died with the creation of Coca Cola, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola, which owns the plant. "As you can imagine, it was very unpopular with the public," De Cervino says. "But eventually [in the late 1...