Six Classes: Chemicals of Concern

Green Science Policy Institute

Health Product Declaration (HPD) Public Repository

Pharos: Chemical and Material Library

Healthy Building Network (HBN)

An online catalog of chemicals, polymers, metals, and other substances. It identifies key health and environmental information using authoritative scientific lists for specific human and environmental health hazards, restricted substance lists, and GreenScreen List Translator scores.

Informed

Healthy Building Network (HBN)

HomeFree is a national initiative supporting affordable housing leaders who are improving human health by using less toxic building materials.

Living Building Challenge

International Living Future Institute

Living Building Challenge Mission: To encourage the creation of Living Buildings, Landscapes and Communities in countries around the world while inspiring, educating and motivating a global audience about the need for fundamental and transformative change.

Mindful Materials

Mindful Materials Collaborative

The Construction Material Pyramid

Centre for Industrialised Architecture, Royal Danish Academy

The Construction Material Pyramid makes it possible to compare CO2 footprints between building materials.

Better Building Materials

U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

The BuildingGreen Report

BuildingGreen

The BuildingGreen Report is a monthly publication available through PDF download to BuildingGreen premium members. It provides in-depth reporting, analysis, and real-world guidance on issues in sustainable and healthy buildings.

Habitable Content Hub

Habitable

Habitable's goal is to reimagine the materials economy in service of human and planetary health. This is their content hub for solutions, insights, and resources about bringing our relationship with “stuff” back in balance with nature.

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff Project began in 2007 to examine the underside of our production and consumption patterns. Since then, they have expanded with a series exploring environmental and social issues.

Environmental Working Group News

Environmental Working Group

EWG News keeps you up to date with analysis of the latest news, interviews with experts and more. Do you know what's in your tap water? What about your shampoo? What’s lurking in the cleaners underneath your sink? What pesticides are on your food? How about the farms, fracking wells and factories in your local area? Do you know what safeguards they use to protect your water, soil, air and your kids? Which large agribusinesses get your tax dollars and why? What are GMOs? What do they do to our land and water?

Environmental Health News

Environmental Health Sciences

Environmental Health News is an independent, foundation-funded news organization that reports, publishes and contextualizes news stories on environmental topics.

Chemsec

ChemSec

ChemSec's page on endocrine disruptors explains the health concerns that endocrine disrupting chemicals present. This resource also includes the ChemSec SIN List which names 32 endocrine disrupting chemicals that should be eliminated from consumer products.

Healthy Home Guide

Environmental Working Group

Declare Product Database

International Living Future Institute

Use the Declare Product Database and label to find building products that have declared their ingredients, sources and manufacturing locations.

Harvard’s Sustainability Action Plan

Harvard Office for Sustainability

Harvard established Green Building Standards in 2007 for internal construction projects, and has updated them every few years since then. The current version is from 2017. Their standards include guidelines for material selection and transparency and for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

Healthier Building Materials Protocol

The American Institute of Architects

This document, from the AIA and ARUP, offers project teams a protocol for choosing products that are healthier over their full life cycle for humans and the environment.

Homes For Health

Homes For Health offers quick guides with simple steps that people can take to make each area of their home healthier. Each room guide contains a few recommendations and five expert tips that readers ...

Carbon Smart Materials Palette

Architecture 2030

Learn about material categories with the highest impact potential to reduce carbon emissions, through Architecture 2030 Palette’s design guides.

Center for Environmental Health

Design for Freedom International & Guidance Toolkit

Healthy Materials Lab

A comprehensive resource for design and construction professionals to implement ethical, forced labor-free material sourcing strategies into their practices

Tools & Guides

Trusted Resources