• Green Materials Library
  Compiled by the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center

• Greening the Cleaning® Program
  Household Cleaning Products
  Institutional Cleaning Products
  

N.J. Chapter of U.S. Green Building Council Bestows
First Product Award on Greening the Cleaning® Line

• Commercial Buildings
  Materials in use at Hackensack University Medical Center's new Sarkis & Siran Gabrellian Women's & Children's Pavilion
  (Also see Greening Healthcare below.)
  
  
• Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
  
  
• Green Depot

• IceStone Durable Surfaces

Green Building

• Green Demolitions

• U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

• LEED: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

  The LEED Green Building Rating System® is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. USGBC's members, representing every sector of the building industry, developed and continue to refine LEED. LEED standards include:

  LEED-NC: New commercial construction and major renovation projects
  LEED-EB: Existing building operations
  LEED-CI: Commercial interiors projects
  LEED-CS: Core and shell projects
  LEED-H: Homes
  LEED-ND: Neighborhood development
  LEED Application Guides: Retail (currently in pilot),
  Multiple Buildings/Campuses, Schools, Healthcare, Laboratories, Lodging

• National Research Center Canada – Green Buildings
  http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sbe/green_e.html

• Montana State University – Green Building Links
  http://www.montana.edu/cweinert/research/green/greenlinks.html

• EarthPledge

Green Building Publications

• BuildingGreen.com (from the publishers of Environmental Building News)
  www.buildinggreen.com

• HousingZone.com (from Reed Business Information)
  www.housingzone.com

• HealthyBuildings.com (from Healthy Buildings International*)
  www.healthybuildings.com

  * Healthy Buildings International developed the technology to diagnose and treat sick buildings through the use of high-tech instruments, analytical equipment and laboratory analyses, and pioneered the "building systems approach" in the prevention of IAQ problems.

Sustainable Construction

• "Topics in Sustainability"
  Smart Communities Network
  www.smartcommunities.ncat.org
  

• National Research Center Canada
  http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sbe/index_e.html

Indoor Air Quality

• Best Practices
  In use at Hackensack University Medical Center's new Sarkis & Siran Gabrellian Women's & Children's Pavilion

• Greening the Cleaning® Program
  Goals and Objectives

• Indoor Air Quality Association
  www.iaqa.org

• Indoor Air Quality Resource Center
  www.aerias.org

• EPA - Indoor Air Quality
• EPA - Office of Children's Health Protection
  
• National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Carpet and Rug Institute

Pollution Prevention and Recycling

• EPA - Recycle City for Kids!
  Find out what happens to garbage and why recycling is important. Includes a game and other activities.

• Science Directory from Google

• Healthy Homes Program
  Housing & Urban Development

• Envirosense
  The U.S. EPA's main pollution prevention web site. Includes links to databases and publications.

• Waste Minimization & Recycling
  Best practices from Hackensack University Medical Center

Greening Schools

• Greening Your School
  
  
• Alliance to Save Energy – Green Schools
  http://www.greenschools.com

Greening Healthcare

• Pavilion Introduction
• Index to Environmental Features
  
• Tour the Gabrellian Women's and Children's Pavilion

• Green Guide for Healthcare www.gghc.org

• Green Health Care Program Resources Guide (CA)
  
  
• Green@Work "Protecting Brand Value"  www.greenatworkmag.com
  
  Learn more about one of America's first environmentally responsible and sustainable healthcare facilities as seen in this pull out inserted in the December 6, 2005 issue of The New York Times.

	Click on the images to the left to view a PDF of the inserts...

Teleosis Institute
The Teliosis Institute is an educational non-profit organization devoted to reducing the environmental impact of health care. The Institute promotes sustainable medical practices and works in partnership with the health care community to build a movement for positive social and environmental change. Teleosis serves health care professionals through the following interlinked areas:

• Leadership in Green Health Care Online Course
• The Green Pharmacy Program
• Symbiosis: The Journal of Ecologically Sustainable Medicine
  Environmental Health Brochures 
• Green Health Care Newsletter