Big Green: Nutrition label

[Jane Nichols]

It is hard to get LCA of products, unless the companies are
forward-thinking. I am currently having 36 LCA's done by my design
students. It will be interesting to see what they find. Creating a fact
label could be a next step.

 

 

Professor Jane Nichols

Interior Design Department

334 Belk Building

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, NC 28728

828-227-2178

 

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From: biggreen-bounces at lists.biggreen.org
[mailto:biggreen-bounces at lists.biggreen.org] On Behalf Of Halle Stern,
Michelle
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:01 PM
To: biggreen at lists.biggreen.org
Subject: RE: Big Green: Nutrition label

 

An environmental fact label should give life cycle analysis information.
Just as nutrition fact labels give grams and calories, this label should
list facts. For example embodied energy, % carcinogens,
recycled-content, emissions of X....

 

Michelle Halle Stern, Architect, P.E., LEED(r) Faculty 
National Market Sector Research Manager, Healthcare Sustainability 
330 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 3600, Chicago, IL 60611 
t: 312.755.4596 f: 312.755.0775 e: michelle.hallestern at perkinswill.com
www.perkinswill.com 

Perkins+Will.  Ideas + buildings that honor the broader goals of society


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From: biggreen-bounces at lists.biggreen.org
[mailto:biggreen-bounces at lists.biggreen.org] On Behalf Of Monica
Marsicek
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:10 AM
To: biggreen at lists.biggreen.org
Cc: kari at greenmakersupply.com; Ori J. Sivan
Subject: Big Green: Nutrition label

 

A Chicago green building store, Greenmaker Supply, is working on
creating the 
equivalent of a nutrition label for us (ecoLogical Home Ideas magazine) 
over the next few months.  If done correctly, it will give consumers 
a checklist of criteria to look for in their building materials,
depending 
on their areas of concern (energy savings, healthy materials, etc.).
All 
the green certification labels are nice but confusing.  Our checklist
should 
incorporate them to some degree, but will cover more.  There needs to be

some sort of standardization for consumers, so any expert thoughts on
this 
checklist will be appreciated.

Monica Marsicek 
Publisher, ecoLogical Home Ideas 
mmarsicek at ecologicalhomeideas.com 
<http://www.ecologicalhomeideas.com>
<http://www.ecologicalhomeideas.com> 




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