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EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

Building Science.com Phone: 978-589-5100 x5296 Address: 30 Forest Street, Somerville, MA 02143 Description: Building Science Information provides objective, high-quality information about commercial and residential buildings.	Green Building Advisor Phone: 866-325-2558 Address: The Taunton Press Customer Support Center - Green Building Advisor, 63 South Main Street., PO Box 5506, Newtown, CT 06470-5506 Email: customerservice@greenbuildingadvisor.com Description: GreenBuildingAdvisor.com is dedicated to providing the most useful, accurate, and complete information about designing, building, and remodeling energy-efficient, sustainable, and healthy homes.
Green Building Databases & Design Resources Address: Sustainable Sources, 108 Royal Way #1004, Austin, TX 78737 Description: Links to resources to help you find sustainable products, materials, and design assistance.	GreenovationTV Description: Our mission is to provide practical information in an entertaining format to help green every home in America, starting with yours.
NAHB Research Center Toolbase Services – Technology Inventory	oikos - Green Building Library Phone: 541-647-2449 Fax: 541-647-2469 Address: Iris Communications, Inc., PO Box 6498, Bend, OR 97708-6498 Description: The Oikos® site is devoted to serving professionals whose work promotes sustainable design and construction. That's a broad goal, but then environmental sustainability touches virtually every aspect of a building.
PATH - Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing Description: PATH is an online resource for homeowners and homebuyers, the homebuilding industry and federal agencies.

SITE AND DESIGN

Building Green.com – Sustainable Design Information
Phone: 802-257-7300 Fax: 802-257-7304
Address: 122 Birge Street Suite 30 , Brattleboro, VT 05301
Email: info@buildinggreen.com

Description: Building Green offers both print and electronic resources to help you design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance.

Built Environment Resources
Rocky Mountain Institute
Phone: 970-927-3851 Fax: 970-927-3420
Address: 2317 Snowmass Creek Road, Snowmass, CO 81654
Email: bet@rmi.org

Description: Rocky Mountain Institute's work in the built environment takes an integrated approach by seeking to increase energy efficiency while simultaneously addressing building and community design, comfort, and health.

Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
Phone: 512-928-4786 Fax: 512-926-4418
Address: 8604 FM 969 , Austin, TX 78724
Email: center@cmpbs.org

Description: The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, established in 1975, is a non-profit education, research, and demonstration organization specializing in life cycle planning and design. We undertake projects based on their potential contribution to site, regional and global sustainability and human health, and actively pursue collaborations with associate organizations, businesses and professional firms.

GREEN PRODUCTS

Designing & Building with FSC
Forest Stewardship Council
Phone: 612-353-4511 Fax: 612-208-1565
Address: Forest Stewardship Council U.S. (FSC-US), 212 Third Avenue North, Suite 504, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Email: info@fscus.org

Description: Published in June 2005, this guide helps architects, builders and designers utilize and source forest products from FSC-certified, well-managed forests. The guide offers professionals a single source to learn about, specify, build and account for the use of FSC-certified products.

Sustainable Sources - Building Materials
Address: 108 Royal Way #1004, Austin, TX 78737

Description: Sustainable Sources was founded in 1994 by Bill Christensen as a means to spread information about green building and related fields in an efficient, inexpensive way over the then-new world wide web.

INDOOR AIR QUALITY

Indoor Air Quality Modeling Tool
US EPA

Description: EPA created the Indoor airPLUS Program to help builders meet the growing consumer preference for homes with improved indoor air quality and energy efficiency.

The Carpet and Rug Institute Green Label for Indoor Air Quality
Phone: 706-278-3176 Fax: 706-278-8835
Address: P.O. Box 2048, Dalton, GA 30722-2048

Description: Using scientifically established standards, the Green Label Plus program symbolizes the carpet industry’s commitment to a better environment for living, working, learning and healing.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Climatic Data for Frost Protected Shallow Foundations NOAA Phone: 828-271-4800 Fax: 828-271-4876 Address: National Climatic Data Center, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801-5001 Email: ncdc.info@noaa.gov Description: The objective of this web page is to provide U.S. builders, designers, code officials, and others with the air freezing index (AFI) data necessary to employ FPSF technology.	Daylighting Collaborative Email: info@daylighting.org Description: The Daylighting Collaborative was initiated by the Energy Center of Wisconsin and its sponsoring members as a source of why-do and how-to information for daylighting using windows.
Energy Savers - Your Home US Dept. of Energy Description: This site offers valuable tips and techniques for saving energy in your home.	Energy Saving and Renewable Energy EERE Description: The resources here will help you find energy-saving and renewable energy products and services. Explore these products and services to find ways to save money and make your home, vehicle, and workplace more energy efficient.
ENERGY STAR Phone: 888-782-7937 Address: US EPA - ENERGY STAR Hotline (6202J), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20460 Description: ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.	WxTV Address: 705 Osterman Drive Suite A, Bozeman, MT 59715 Email: bebers@montana.edu Description: Online TV segments highlighting weatherization techniques created by The Montana Weatherization Training Center.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN

ADA Standards for Accessible Design
US Dept of Justice
Phone: 800-514-0301

Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards (UFAS)

Description: This document presents uniform standards for the design, construction and alteration of buildings so that physically handicapped persons will have ready access to and use of them in accordance with the Architectural Barriers Act, 42 U.S.C. 4151-4157.