The Pharos Project is a project of the Healthy Building Network. HBN is:

In Vermont:
Melissa Coffin, Bill Walsh

In California:
Tom Lent

In Washington, DC:
Larry Kilroy, Sarah Gilberg, Sarah Pickell, Susan Sabella

In Maine:
Jim Vallette

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE? WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT TO YOUR WORK?

 

The Pharos Project team is here in Washington, DC this week for a planning meeting. Besides being incredibly excited about finalizing timelines and plans the near future releases of research, products and functionality, I am especially enjoying the longer term visioning for what’s coming towards the end of 2010 and into 2011. As we look to our future impact areas to create evaluation criteria for, we want to hear from you.

What impact areas from the Pharos framework are you most interested in seeing? Global warming / climate change? Air or water quality? Embodied energy or water? Occupational health and safety? Community relations? Are we missing one? What are the challenges, in your view, products will need to solve in this area to be considered an ideal product?

Let us know what you think in the comments below or send an email to support [at] pharosproject.net and we will post our favorites. We would love to hear your thoughts on how together we can build a more environmentally-sound, healthy, socially-just and transparent building material market.

Larry Kilroy is the information systems director for the Pharos Project and the Healthy Building Network

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As a green mechanical engineer, I would like to see more information about the safety/toxicity and embodied energy of materials and products that we specify (ducts, pipes, pumps, fans, etc). Energy efficiency is getting a lot of traction in our industry, but as far as I have seen there is almost no awareness of material toxicity or embodied energy in our industry.

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