Take an inside look into emerging markets and trends. Gain valuable new perspectives from HBN experts and our partners. Be inspired to know better.
Take an inside look into emerging markets and trends. Gain valuable new perspectives from HBN experts and our partners. Be inspired to know better.
Bill Walsh | April 08, 2009 | Policies
...The April 1 Edition of Healthy Building News Was A Spoof ?
Bill Walsh | April 01, 2009 | Policies
HBN has learned that at the May meeting of the National Organic Standards Board, the Obama Department of Agriculture (USDA) will announce that some polyvinyl chloride products (also known as PVC or vinyl) will soon carry the USDA Organic label. The designation will be granted to products that have been certified as made from vinyl, a combination of "common salt . . . and . . . natural gas.”
Paul Bogart | March 24, 2009 | Policies
...that aggressive green purchasing policies are currently advancing the public health and sustainability agenda faster than federal law?
Bill Walsh | March 04, 2009 | Materials
Fourteen residents of McCullom Lake Village, Illinois (population 1,000) have brain cancer. The incidence in the US population is 4 in 100,000.[1] This is the largest brain cancer cluster identified in a non-occupational setting. In epidemiological terms, the chance that this is a coincidence is something like your chance of winning the lotte...
Bill Walsh | February 04, 2009 | Policies
Early in his inaugural address, President Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in public policymaking. Three days later on January 23, EPA Administrator-designate, Lisa Jackson, pledged in her introductory email to all EPA employees, “As your Administrator, I will uphold the values of scientific integrity, rul...
Bill Walsh | January 21, 2009 | Materials
We are kicking off the 2009 edition of the Healthy Building News with a new feature called Did You Know? We got the idea for this new column through research for our building materials evaluation project, Pharos, which regularly reveals things that may not yet be on your green radar, or that you suspected, but hadn’t been able to confirm. Did...
Bill Walsh | December 12, 2008 | Policies
Invited to contribute my thoughts to the US Green Building Council’s 15th Anniversary commemoration, I offered a metaphor suggested to me by a colleague. When you think about it, the USGBC is a lot like a 15-year-old. Public displays of confidence and idealism guild a workaday manner heavy on insistent experimentation and inconsistent judgmen...
Bill Walsh | November 17, 2008 | Policies
Bill Walsh | November 06, 2008 | Materials
Bill Walsh | October 23, 2008 | Policies
There is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous land, or to support culture and the remaining biological sanctuaries. - Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest, p.103.
In this issue, I continue my discussion of the US Green Building Council’s proposed revisions to the LEED® wood credit with Doug Pierce of Perkins...
