Bill Walsh | October 11, 2007 | Policies
Bill Walsh | September 27, 2007 | Policies
trans • for • ma • tion n. 1. A complete change, usually into something with an improved appearance or usefulness. [1] After reading the last edition of the Healthy Building News, Blessed Unrest In The Green Building Movement, a respected expert on the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) certification process remarked that he appr...
Bill Walsh | September 12, 2007 | Policies
In his latest book Blessed Unrest [1] Paul Hawken recalls the summer of 1962, when the New Yorker magazine began publishing installments of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, igniting what he calls "the seminal confrontation" in which industries doing violence to the health of the planet employed public relations experts to devise the str...
Bill Walsh | May 30, 2007 | Materials
In the May 11, 2007 issue of the Healthy Building News, we reported on the California Air Resources Board (CARB) decision to severely limit allowable emissions of toxic formaldehyde gas from particle board and other composite wood building materials. One week later, news reports documenting formaldehyde poisoning of children in the Gulf Coast regio...
Tom Lent | May 11, 2007 | Policies
On April 27, 2007 the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted unanimously to adopt the nation's most stringent regulations on formaldehyde emissions from particleboard and other composite wood products. This decision, likely to improve indoor air quality across the nation, attests to the potential power of the LEED rating system to dramatic...
Bill Walsh | April 24, 2007 | Policies
Bill Walsh | April 12, 2007 | Policies
Bill Walsh | March 23, 2007 | Materials
Tom Lent | March 09, 2007 | Materials
"When we add end-of-life with accidental landfill fires and backyard burning, the additional risk of dioxin emissions puts PVC consistently among the worst materials for human health impacts..." USGBC Technical Science Advisory Committee (TSAC) final report. The verdict is in. On February 26, 2007, the Technical Science Advisory Committee...
Bill Walsh | February 23, 2007 | Policies
Within days of asserting in a letter to leading US playground manufacturer BigToys that "the use of lead and cadmium to stabilize PVC has declined dramatically in the United States," [1] the Vinyl Institute has publicly defended the industry's use of lead stabilizers in children's lunchboxes.
