Green Building
Software
Green Building Advisor (GBA) is an interactive software program that helps you identify actions to reduce the environmental impacts of a building project, while ensuring healthy and productive indoor spaces.
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Resource Guide
The Environmental Guide
Builders Environmental Guide
Earth Friendly Construction Technology
NorthWest Builders Network Guide to environmental products, companies, news, events, resources & publications. With a special focus on sustainable building technolgies, renewable & solar energy & energy efficient design & construction.
Page Index
Environmental Guide | Articles, Resources & Products | Green Office Tips | Health & Safety
Articles, Resources & Products
Green Building Products
Articles & Resources for Consumers |
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Articles & Resources for Small Businesses |
Ask An Energy Expert
Get all your energy questions answered by this DOE/EREN staff of energy efficiency experts.
Buyers Guide To Non-Toxic Paints & Coatings
Hazardous ingredients are among the least expensive and most widely used in the paint & coatings industry, perpetuating a legacy of environmental damage for generations to come. Read about how you can identify and avoid the worst.
Environmental Store
The 'Green Builders' source for innovative building materials, energy efficient appliances and lighting, environmentally safe paints, stains and other ecologically sound building products and supplies.
Consumer Energy Information
These re-prints cover such topics as energy-efficient windows, solar hot water heating, solar power, & landscaping for energy efficiency.
Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Access to information on the Federal lead poisoning prevention program.
Smart Home Energy Tips
How you can save money, energy and the environment -- all at the same time!.
Radon in New Home Construction
What You Should Know about radon (Rn) gas. Radon entry. Testing. Prevention systems. Much more.
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The ABC's of Pollution Prevention - For Businesses
The best way to get rid of pollution is to prevent it in the first place. Small businesses can learn the practical facts of pollution prevention. So can communities and individuals. Learn how from this EDF reprinted article.
Buyers Guide To Non-Toxic Paints & Coatings
Hazardous ingredients are among the least expensive and most widely used in the paint & coatings industry, perpetuating a legacy of environmental damage for generations to come. Read about how you can identify and avoid the worst.
Energy Savings Tips for Small Businesses
Interested in some quick and easy no-cost or low-cost measures to try now? Using combinations of the following measures can save you 10% to 50% on your energy bills.
Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Access to information on the Federal lead poisoning prevention program.
Radon in New Home Construction
What You Should Know about radon (Rn) gas. Radon entry. Testing. Prevention systems. Much more.
Simple Tips To Make Your Office Greener
Another helpful article from the EDF organization. Using e-mail to write office memos instead of paper is one of many easy ways to make your office greener! EDF has more tips to save trees, water, and electricity - all without leaving your office.
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More Green Office Tips & Energy Saving Ideas
Saving Paper & Reducing Printing Costs
These tips are drawn from the Environmental Defense Fund's Paper Printing and Publications Specifications and Guidelines, which EDF adopted in early 1998 to guide its office practices. These are practical steps you can take today to make your office more environmentally friendly.
Boost Profits with Business Energy Checkup
Want to make your business more profitable? A great way to start is by visiting the Alliance to Save Energy's new interactive web site, Business Energy Checkup. This free resource can help your business identify the benefits and costs of a wide range of energy efficiency options for your building(s). As it guides you through the five stages of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Buildings program, Business Energy Checkup shows you a pathway to reducing operating costs and lowering air pollution emissions. There is a similar program for homes here.
Health and Safety Issues
The Chemical Scorecard (EDF)
can give you a detailed report on chemicals being released from any of more than 17,000 manufacturing plants, or a summary report for any of over 7,000 zip codes, 2,000 counties, 50 states, or the entire country. To zoom in on the location that you want a report for, just click near your community on the map provided (and on the more detailed maps that follow), or use the search engine to enter a company name, zip code, county, or state.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
The mission of the ATSDR as an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment.
The Envirosense Consortium
Non-profit organization of strategic companies and other Associations that address Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) issues. The Consortium provides educational programs that focus on proactive solutions for building, product, and maintenance systems.
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