Resources
Green Office Guide: A Guide to Greening Your Bottom Line Through a Resource-Efficient Office Environment
This report details the ways in which offices can reduce resource consumption and improve environmental performance. Discover resource-saving choices for: heating and cooling, lighting, office equipment, paper products, transportation and parking, and water use. Read More
Understanding Environmental Literacy in America
Offers an assessment of the past decade of progress in educating Americans about the environment. Read More
Forging New Links
Report reviews the opportunities for EH&S to create business value in the supply chain across a variety of industries. Read More
How to Press Printers to Reduce Waste, Emissions, and Costs
Practical tips for greening your friendly local printer. Read More
Testing, Selecting an Environmental Press Wash
Tips for greening your pressroom wash. Read More
Silence is Golden, Leaden, and Copper: Disclosure of Material Environmental Information in the Hard Rock Mining Industry
Report focuses on the need for companies to improve their financial reporting of material environmental exposures. Read More
WasteWise Update: Building for the Future
Report focuses on the materials-efficiency aspects of green buildings. Read More
Waste Management Backgrounder
The Big PictureIn 1996 the United States produced 136 million tons of building-related construction and demolition debris, according to U.S. EPA estimates. Year after year, debris piles up in landfills and burdens the wallets of builders and their clients. Yet most construction waste is wood, drywall, metals, concrete/dirt, and cardboard -- materials that can be reused or recycled if prepared properly. Read More
Indoor Environmental Quality Backgrounder
Indoor environmental strategies can increase the resale value of the building, and increase productivity of building occupants. Issues include indoor air quality, lighting quality, thermal comfort, acoustics, and use of low-emitting building materials. Read More
Interiors Backgrounder
The Big PictureIndoor Environmental Quality strategies reduce potential liability for design team members (including building owners), increase the resale value of the building, and increase productivity of building occupants. In fact, case studies suggest that IEQ improvements can increase worker productivity by as much as 16%, resulting in rapid payback for IEQ capital investments. Read More