Places You Might be Happy to Visit

Clodagh’s Cleaning Bible: This is a wonderful site, maintained by a design firm, that talks about environmentally responsible ways to clean common surfaces, like rugs, floors, carpets and glass.

Building Envelopes:  These fact sheets and handbooks provide information about thermal barriers and energy conservation as related to the building envelope. Explore such areas as retrofits, insulation, moisture control, and attics.

ENVIROnetBASE: This is one of the technical publishers that publishes works of interest to the serious designer of environmentally freindly structures

Hazards of Pressure-treated Wood: Report on the levels of arsenic in pressure-treated wood.

Closed-loop wool carpet: Wool carpets have the potential for closed-loop recycling, involving returning the used carpet to the soil as a fertiliser. In wool producing countries.

Sustainable Architecture:  Sustainable Architecture, Sustainable Buildings, Reuse and Recycling of Building Materials, Environmental Design.

Building Materials Reuse Association: The BMRA is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse/recycling of recovered building materials.

A Sourcebook for  Green and Sustainable Building:  The Sourcebook was developed to foster the implementation of environmentally responsible practices in homebuilding. The Sourcebook presents specific and general recommendations for homes that can be considered environmentally friendly. Many of the recommendations may also be relevant to some types of commercial development. The Sourcebook provides the practical information needed to better understand and implement these options.

Greenhomebuilding.com: provides a range of information about architecture and natural building.

California Integrated Waste Management Board Green Building Materials: This page deals with sustainable building in all its facets.

House dust mites: One of the most strongly allergenic materials found indoors is house dust, often heavily contaminated with the fecal pellets and cast skins of House Dust Mites.

Carpeting, Indoor Air Quality and the Environment: After receiving several hundred complaints about possible carpet-related health effects, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) commissioned a study by Hodgson and others at LBL of chemical emissions from carpets. Dozens of chemicals released from carpets were observed and 31 were positively identified.

Our page on the chemicals found in synthetic carpets.