The Green Guide for Health Care is the healthcare sector’s first quantifiable sustainable design toolkit integrating enhanced environmental and health principles and practices into the planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance of their facilities. This Guide provides the healthcare sector with a voluntary, self-certifying metric toolkit of best practices that designers, owners, and operators can use to guide and evaluate their progress towards high performance healing environments.  This document is available for download at http://www.gghc.org/.

Healthcare Without Harm provides information about the issues related to healthy building, including specific resources for establishing guidelines for healthy building materials and practices.

The Healthy Building Network (HBN) is a national network of green building professionals, environmental and health activists, socially responsible investment advocates and others who are interested in promoting healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment.

• To PVC or Not to PVC
• Environmental Impact of PVC Building Materials
• Healthcare Resources

The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System® is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings