The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation today released a new tool to help building professionals as well as consumers find energy-efficient housing products that are healthy and made locally. Building Clean offers an easy-to-use interface that includes information about appliances, heating and air conditioning equipment, insulation, lighting, plumbing, roofing, sealants, and water filtration.
Building Clean can be used to search for products with third-party health certifications and services that promote transparency about the chemicals contained in the products. The site can also be a resource for businesses looking to break into the energy-efficient product supply chain.
“Building Clean will supercharge efforts to find healthy, American-made products in a wide range of sectors,” says Kim Glas, president of the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation. “Building Clean should be in the toolbox of anyone updating multi-family homes, designing new affordable housing, expanding their business into the energy-efficient products sector, or looking to meet procurement policies in standards, such as LEED certification.”
Building Clean is an initiative of the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation and is a companion piece to the broader Energy Efficiency for All initiative, which is dedicated to linking the energy, housing and health sectors to tap the benefits of energy efficiency for millions of low-income families.
