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BuildingGreen Approved
Sound, unbiased advice on sustainable material selection [website]

C2C Certified Products Registry
Source for products with full C2C product certification [website]

C2C Material Health Certificate Registry
Source for products with standalone C2C material health certification [website]

Carbon Smart Materials Palette
Prescriptive guidance for selecting building materials with lower embodied carbon impact [website]

Climate Positive Design
Initiative for climate-conscious design started by landscape architecture firms and organizations [website]

Cog FX Study: The Impact of Green Buildings on Cognitive Function
Groundbreaking research connecting indoor air quality, including VOCs in building materials, to professional human productivity [website]

Declare Products Database
Source for products with Declare product labels [website]

Embodied Carbon Network
Collective of individuals within taskforces committed to designing embodied and operational carbon out of our new and renovated buildings, to achieve a carbon neutral built environment by 2050 [website]

For Health / Healthy Buildings Project
Summary reports with extensive bibliographies to build the case for healthy buildings [website]

Global Forest Watch
Interactive, crowd-sourced forest monitoring map with rich data on everything from lumber harvest practices to intact forest loss to biodiversity hot spots [website]

​HBN Research & Reports
Groundbreaking research on toxicants in building materials [website]

Healthier Hospitals Initiative Safer Chemicals Challenge
Standards for elimination of known chemical hazards in healthcare facilities [website]

Healthy Materials Lab
Resource center for information to make better sense of what is in building materials and why we should care [website]

HomeFree Product Guidance
"Stoplight" product selection guidance [website]

HPD Public Repository
The definitive source for finding products with Health Product Declarations [website]
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Standards and accountability for green building, managed by the U.S. Green Building Institute. LEED v4 incorporates new concepts to encourage holistic material selections [website]

Living Building Challenge
The Living Building Challenge (LBC) is touted as the world’s most rigorous proven performance standard for buildings [website]

LBC Red List "Compliant" Products
Product lists from completed and certitied LBC projects; Products must still be reviewed for compliance with current LBC Red List requirements [website]

LBC Red List
Information on the 22 targeted classes of chemicals, and the related 800+ individual chemicals, prohibited by the Living Building Challenge [website]

mindful MATERIALS
Open-source data platform with aggregated human health and environmental information from leading manufacturers, vetted by experts passionate about making it easier to make informed product choices [website]

Perkins + Will Transparency
Precautionary List

List of chemical classes with known health or environmental issues, with which project teams should proceed with caution, inform clients, and look for alternatives [website]

Prescription for Healthier Building Materials:
A Design and Implementation Protocol

Both a great primer on the current understanding and tools for healthier materials selection and a method for incorporating safer product screening into the design process [website]

Program Operators Consortium
Source for products with EPDs, developed by ASTM, SCS Global, Sustainable Minds, ICC Evaluation Service, CSA Group, and NSF International; go to "EPD/TR Catalog" on website [website]

Quartz Common Products Database
Industry average health and environmental impacts [website]

Six Classes
Six short video primers on harmful chemical classes commonly found in products [website]

​Sustainable Minds Transparency Catalog
Snapshot view of manufacturers' disclosure documents by product, including definitions of disclosure types and how they can be applied to different rating systems [website]

The Wood Database
Encyclopedia of wood species and responsible wood selection, including current CITES and IUCN endangered wood lists [website]
UL Spot
Find products with EPDs developed by UL Environment [website]

Understanding Wood

Primer on responsible wood selection [website]

WELL Building Standard
Certification system focused on human health and well-being in buildings, including provisions for materials that do not contain certain chemicals of concern [website]
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