ChemFinder
www.chemfinder.com

A searchable database of chemicals, including information on their health impacts.

Create Your Healthy Home Site
www.create-your-healthy-home.com

Provides a variety of "self-help" resources on indoor air and water quality, mold, asthma, radon, home inspections, and testing. The "Free Info" section includes a good reading list and other resources.

Environmental Health Watch: Healthy House Information
www.ehw.org/Healthy_House/HH_home.htm

A source for information on mold, asthma, and household health hazards; includes a "home moisture audit" tool.

GreenHomeGuide.com
www.greenhomeguide.com

A website with advice and information on green remodeling and building products, services, and projects. It includes directories of local green design and building professionals, product listings with expert and consumer comments, and articles from homeowners and green building leaders. The site is currently focused on the Northern California region, but is expanding to other regions.

U.S. EPA Indoor Air Pollution Information
www.epa.gov/iaq/index.html

Features indoor air quality research, policies, and information for homes, as well as schools and commercial/institutional buildings.

Natural Home & Garden
www.naturalhomeandgarden.com

A bi-monthly magazine and website that features sustainable, healthy homes, natural decorating tips, and green products and services.

KQED.org Home Improvement section
www.kqed.org/topics/home/homeimprove/index.jsp

Information on how to maintain a healthy home, green products and materials, home and gardening resources, project tools, and project tours.

Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time

by David Johnston and Kim Master

Renovations can be fraught with unintended consequences like indoor air pollution. How do you remodel in a healthy, environmentally friendly way? Green Remodeling is a comprehensive guide. It first points out the advantages of remodeling. The book then discusses simple green renovation solutions for homeowners, focusing on key aspects of the building including foundations, framing, plumbing, windows, heating and finishes. Room by room, it outlines the intricate connections that make the house work as a system.

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Homes that Heal

by Athena Thompson

A passionate examination of our built environment and the alarming impact todays chemically polluted world is having on the health of present and future generations, Homes that Heal is easy-to-read, solutions-oriented, and humorous, full of stories and advice that empower families to take back their health on a daily basis.

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The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin Free Living

by Linda Mason Hunter

Purchase this book from Amazon.com

Prescriptions for a Healthy House

by Paula Baker-Laport, Erica Elliott, and John Banta

This is an invaluable guide for any homeowner, architect or builder. Prescriptions takes the mystery out of healthy house building by walking you through the construction process. It explains why standard building practices are not helpful, what to do differently and how to obtain alternative materials and expertise. Highly recommended!

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Good Green Homes: Creating Better Homes for a Healthier Planet

by Jennifer Roberts

Information on how to design and maintain a healthy home, green products and materials, home and gardening resources, project tools, and project tours.

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The Not So Big House

by Sarah Susanka

The insightful book by best selling author and architect Sarah Susanka that started a national dialogue. The Not So Big House is designed to help you build better, not bigger.

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Creating the Not So Big House

by Sarah Susanka

The insightful book by best selling author and architect Sarah Susanka that started a national dialogue. The Not So Big House is designed to help you build better, not bigger.

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Not So Big Solutions for Your Home

by Sarah Susanka

Following in the footsteps of her first two influential works, Not So Big Solutions for Your Home provides over 30 design solutions originally featured in Taunton's Fine Homebuilding magazine. Ranging from selecting the site for a new home to figuring out where to put the afternoon mail, Susankas new book helps you find practical, hands-on solutions to transform your living space.

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Home by Design: Transforming Your House into Home

by Sarah Susanka

Using examples from some of the countries best designed homes, Sarah Susanka presents 27 key concepts that can be applied to any home. As with her other best selling books, Home By Design emphasizes quality over quantity.

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American Lung Association’s Health House Project
www.healthhouse.org

Provides an indoor air quality checklist, information on asthma, lead, dust mites, and other home pollutants, as well as construction tips.

Greenguard Environmental Institute
www.greenguard.org

A non-profit certification organization that conducts laboratory tests on products and materials used in indoor environments, and provides a guide of certified low-emitting products.

Healthy Building Network
www.healthybuilding.net

A national network of green building professionals, environmental and health activists, and others who promote the use of healthier building materials. Much of their work is focused on materials used in health care facilities, as well as the issues of PVC plastic and pressure-treated wood.

Institute for Bau-Biologie and Ecology
www.bau-biologieusa.com

IBE educates people about the health hazards that may exist in their homes and workplaces. Bau-Biologie suggests ways to eliminate such problems using knowledge that has been amassed in Europe over the past three decades. IBE offers home study courses, workshops, and educational materials.

Baker-Laporte & Associates
www.bakerlaporte.com

Paula Baker-Laporte is an architect and the author of Prescriptions for a Healthy Home. Useful website with a healthy building checklist and other resources.

Econest Building Company
www.econest.com

Provides design, construction, workshops and resources related to healthy building.

EMF Services
www.emfservices.com

Specializing in cost-effective, technology based solutions to problems regarding electric and magnetic fields.

Linda Mason Hunter, author
www.hunterink.com

Linda Mason Hunter is the author of The Healthy Home and other books and articles related to homes and ecology.

M. Landman Communications & Consulting (green building advising)
www.mlandman.com

Miriam Landman provides writing and editing, education and training, and project consultation services for homeowners, architects, builders, companies, and organizations, to facilitate the use of healthy and sustainable design and construction practices.

Allergy Buyers Club
www.allergybuyersclub.com

Healthy home and allergy-relief products and information.

Building for Health Materials Center
www.buildingforhealth.com

Knowledgeable and helpful resource for information on healthy building options. They ship hundreds of non-toxic building materials direct from all over the U.S.

Casa Natura: Healthy Interiors
www.casanaturainc.com

Offers healthy products, consultation, design services, and education, with a store located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Eco Design Resources
www.ecodesignresources.com

Located in San Carlos and Santa Cruz, California, Eco Design Resources is a green product showroom and education center featuring a variety of household and building products.

Environmental Home Center
www.environmentalhomecenter.com

An on-line store with a showroom in Seattle. A source for healthy and resource-efficient building materials.

Green Fusion Design Center
www.greenfusiondesigncenter.com

Located in San Anselmo, California (about 15 miles north of San Francisco), theGreen Fusion Design Center is a retail store, gallery, book store, and education center featuring green building materials (for residential and commercial projects) and natural home furnishings.

GreenHome.com
www.greenhome.com

An online "environmental superstore" with a wide range of products for green and healthy lifestyles; the website is also a resource for information on green living.

HealthyHome.com
www.healthyhome.com

Healthy home products, books, resources, and helpful online advice, with a store located in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Real Goods
www.realgoods.com

A catalog of green products, including renewable technologies (solar, wind), composting equipment, energy efficiency products, and more. Real Goods’ green headquarters, demonstration and education center, and retail store is located in Hopland, California.

Alameda County Waste Management Authority:
"StopWaste" Green Building program
www.stopwaste.org/fsbuild.html

This agency produces a wide variety of useful green building publications and tools, including the Green Building Guidelines for Home Remodeling and for New Home Construction (downloadable in PDF format), a Green Materials Database, and a guide on Bay Friendly Landscaping and Gardening.

Building Industry Professionals for Environmental Responsibility (BIPER)
www.igreenbuild.com

Provides a newsletter on environmental and green building issues related to the building industry.

EcoIQ Green Design & Building Directory
www.ecoiq.com/greendesign/directories/index.html

A compendium of links to news, research, publications, and training resources on green design and building.

Green Building Pages
www.greenbuildingpages.com

A compendium of information and resources on sustainable design, including a product database with evaluation criteria, a sustainable design checklist, case studies, and links to websites in many green building categories, including green real estate.

GreenHomeGuide.com
www.greenhomeguide.com

A website with advice and information on green remodeling and building products, services, and projects. It includes directories of local green design and building professionals, product listings with expert and consumer comments, and articles from homeowners and green building leaders. The site is currently focused on the Northern California region, but is expanding to other regions.

Oikos: Green Building Source
www.oikos.com/

Features an online bookstore, a compilation of news articles, a green building products directory, and other useful links and resources on green building.

Sustainable Sources
www.greenbuilder.com

Features an online bookstore, green real estate listings, publications, a calendar of conferences and events, online discussion groups, and a green building professionals directory.

Environmental Building News
www.buildinggreen.com

EBN's articles and reviews are a premier resource on energy-efficient, resource-efficient, and healthy building practices and products. The publication does not feature advertisements.

Environmental Design + Construction
www.edcmag.com

Magazine on trends in the green building industry. Many of its articles are focused on commercial building projects and products.

GreenSpec: Product Directory and Guideline Specifications, 5th Edition
www.greenspec.com

A product directory with descriptions of more than 1,800 screened, environmentally preferable products, as well as guidelines specifications for selecting green products; available in print, CD-ROM, and by online subscription.

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Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
www.adpsr-norcal.org

ADPSR has four chapters, including a Northern California Chapter based in Berkeley, California. The organization educates design professionals and the public about critical social and environmental issues. One of its primary areas of interest is green building.

Ecological Building Network
www.ecobuildnetwork.org

An international association of builders, engineers, architects, academics, and developers committed to promoting intelligent building methods and materials for a sustainable future. The group has particular expertise in structural issues and straw bale building.

Build It Green (formerly the Green Resource Center)
www.builditgreen.org

A central clearinghouse for information on green building strategies and materials for both residential and commercial projects. Based in Berkeley, California, Build It Green provides technical/design assistance, an online Materials Database, and the Ask an Expert program.

Rocky Mountain Institute
www.rmi.org

A research, education, policy, and consulting institution focused on market-based ("Natural Capitalism") solutions to a variety of resource issues, including energy and building issues. Based in Colorado, and founded by Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins.

U.S. Green Building Council
www.usgbc.org

A non-profit membership organization and the leading coalition of groups and companies across the building industry who are working to promote green building, the Council developed and administers the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System®, a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.

Building Environmental Science and Technology (BEST)
www.energybuilder.com

Offers consulting on green design techniques, energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, building materials, and indoor environmental quality.

M. Landman Communications & Consulting (green building advising)
www.mlandman.com

Miriam Landman provides writing and editing, education and training, and project consultation services for homeowners, architects, builders, companies, and organizations, to facilitate the use of healthy and sustainable design and construction practices.