The American Tree Farm System offers third party certification to lands meeting the ATFS Eligibility Requirements. Landowners have three options to ATFS certification.
Individual Third Party Certification
Group Certification through Independently Managed Group (IMG) Organiz...
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The mission of the City of Aspen / Pitkin County Efficient Building Program is to increase the efficiency
of our local building industry in order to preserve our natural and human resources. Flexibility is built into the
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Austin Energy Green Building™ has programs designed to meet the needs of all types of property owners. Whether you are building a home, an office building, or a mixed-use project, we can help you build with value, health, and the environment in mind....
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BIFMA's mission is to lead, advocate, inform and develop standards for the North American office and institutional furniture industry.
We serve businesses that are primarily engaged in design, development, marketing and fulfillment of office and institutional furniture products.
BIFMA is a not-for-profit organization that provides an effective forum for members to cooperate an...
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The purpose of the Green Points program is to require builders and homeowners to adopt green building practices locally. In addition, the program has become a model for other communities interested in enhancing quality of life and reducing the environmental impacts of the local building stock.
The 2008 version of the Green Points program ...
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The Building America Partner Program's mission is to work with the residential building industry to produce communities of homes that use 30% to 50% less energy than the average community of residences. In addition to red...
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BUILT GREEN is an environmental building program proven to provide the homeowner with a healthier, more efficient house. BUILT GREEN homes are attractive, comfortable, durable, environmentally-friendly – and can save money to own and operate. Participating BUILT GREEN builders craft these resource-efficient homes to exceed bui...
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Introduced in 1995, Built Green Colorado is one of oldest and largest green home building programs in the nation. A voluntary industry-driven program of the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver offered to builders across the state, the purpose of Built Green Colorado is to encourage home builders to use technologies, products a...
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Built Green® is a program of the Home Builders Association of Kitsap County that promotes the use of environmentally friendly features in new and remodeled homes. Homes enrolled in the program are rated by the Association based on the number of Built Green features included in the home.
Construction projects meeting program standards are awarded a 1-,2-, or 3-star ratin...
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Built Green is an environmental building program of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties, developed in partnership with King County, Snohomish County, and other government agencies in Washington State. Built Green is designed to help homebuyers find quality, affordable homes t...
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The California Green Builder program (CGB) is the effective and cost-effective green building program for production builders and California homebuyers. Created by homebuilders for homebuilders, the voluntary program meets the needs of builders, buyers, and California’s cities and counties alike.
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The Canadian Standards Association is a not-for-profit membership-based association serving business, industry, government and consumers in Canada and the global marketplace....
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CECP was officially founded in October 1998, and was one of the organizations charged with responsibility for fulfilling the requirements of the "Energy Conservation Law" of the Peoples Republic of China.
Formation was initiated by China National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and approved by General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China...
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The Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) is a nonprofit public benefits corporation that develops initiatives for its North American members to promote the manufacture and purchase of energy-efficient products and services.
CEE brings efficiency program administrators together, providing a forum to explore common in...
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Lighting
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GreenStar homes are designed and built with tight ducts, better windows, and improved construction to be 15% more energy efficient than the California Title 24 energy code. They may include third party inspections of energy features and diagnostics of the HVAC system as the homes are built. Other program elements can be added such as jobsite recyclin...
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The Cleaner and Greener program promotes market-based approaches to reduce pollution, increase energy efficiency and renewable energy usage as well as provide information on certification levels and procedures.
The Cleaner and Greener® Program helps companies, organizations, families and individuals reduce air pollution that contributes to climate change and&n...
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Services
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Cradle to Cradle Design is a fundamental conceptual shift away from the flawed system design of the Industrial Revolution.
Instead of designing products and systems based on the take-make-waste model of the last century "cradle to grave", MBDCs Cradle to Cradle Design paradigm is powering the Next Industrial Revolution. In which products and services are designed based on patterns found ...
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Carpet Standards
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, Office Furniture
, Services
, Water Use
Earth Advantage is a non-profit organization that works to promote energy efficient homes and works with builders and homebuyers teaching them how to make energy efficient, sustainable, healthy homes.
Earth Advantage is a third-party certification program for new home construction. The comprehensive standard addresses energy efficiency, resource efficiency, water use, land ...
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Non Profit
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EarthCraft House is a green building program that serves as a blueprint for healthy comfortable homes that reduce utility bills and protect the environment. The aim of the program is to help home builders be leaders in smart growth management and environmental stewardship.
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Energy Efficient Building
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EcoLogo is one of North America's most widely recognized and respected certification of environmental leadership.
By setting standards and certifying products in more than 120 categories, EcoLogo helps you identify, trust, buy, and sell environmentally preferable (“green”) goods and services. Within the program, you’ll find more than 7,000 EcoLogo-certified product...
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Automotive Related Products & Services
, Bags & Sacks
, Cleaning & Janitorial Products
, Consumer Products
, Containers
, Environmentally Friendly Products and Services
, Equipment & Business Products
, Flooring
, Furniture
, Lubricants and Related Products
, Office Furniture
, Paper Products
, Pulp and Paper Products
, Services
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.
Results are already adding up. Americans, with the help of ENERGY STAR, saved enough energy in 2007 alone to avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from 27 million ca...
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Appliances
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WaterSense is a partnership program sponsored by EPA. It seeks to protect the future of our nation's water supply by promoting water efficiency and enhancing the market for water-efficient products, programs, and practices.
Products bearing the WaterSense label are generally 20 percent more water-efficient than similar products in the marketplace. The WaterSense label...
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Water Use
Floor Score certifies hard surface flooring and flooring adhesive products for compliance with rigorous indoor air quality emissions requirements. Individual volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are evaluated using health-based specifications. Flooring and adhesives that earn FloorScore certification earn a legitimately enhanced market position, distinguished by the FloorScore certification la...
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Carpet Standards
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In May 2001, Frisco became the first city in the United States to adopt a mandatory Residential Green Building Program. After more than five years of experience, the City decided to update and improve the Program. The revised program is enforced for all homes receiving a building permit o...
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Building Certification
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The Forest Stewardship Council is a forest certification program that promotes the use of lumber only from legal logging and sustainable use forests. This is one of the only councils that works in accordance with indigenous peoples and has a list of pesticides that are banned due to their social and environmental consequences even though they are technically legal. It also does not certif...
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The Green Globes rating system is based upon a grading scale for how eco-friendly and energy efficient a building is. A building is graded on every aspect throughout the process from design to contruction to use.
4 Globes is the best possible rating : score of 85-100%; Reserved for select building designs which serve as national or world leaders in energy and environm...
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Energy and Environmental Design Building
GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) has established performance based standards to define goods with low chemical and particle emissions for use indoors, primarily building materials, interior furnishings, furniture, cleaning and maintenance products, electronic equipment, and personal care products. The standard establishes certification procedures including test methods, allowable em...
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Office Furniture
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, Central Air
The Green Guide for Health Care borrows the credit numbering scheme and credit outline structure of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED® family of products with some modifications. Each credit has the following elements:
Intent – Summarizes the goal of the credit.
Health Issues – (new to the Green Guide) identifies...
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Building Certification
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, Indoor Air Quality
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Green Seal is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding the environment and transforming the marketplace by promoting the manufacture, purchase, and use of environmentally safe leadership standards. This gives manufacturers the assurance to back up their claims and purchasers confidence that certified products are better for human health and the environment....
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Consumer Products
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Green Shield Certified standards are science-based, industry tested ways to control pests without using pesticides, unless no other option is available.
Green Shield Certified is an independent, non-profit certification program that promotes practitioners of effective, prevention-based pest control while minimizing the need to use pesticides. Their approach addresses the u...
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Pest Management
, Non Profit
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GREENGUARD for Building Construction certifies that the best possible mold risk prevention techniques are put in place by ensuring that buildings use industries' best practices for safeguarding against the damage and resulting losses caused by mold. The buildings are carefully constructed and inspected to make sure there is no chance of mold growth.
GREENGUARD for Building Const...
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Indoor Air Quality
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Homes built using the Hawaii BuiltGreen™ Program incorporate environmentally friendly features that can add value and reduce the lifecycle cost of the home. Hawaii BuiltGreen is a program that allows builders to certify that the homes that they build are eco-friendly. There is a check list which must be submitted ...
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Indoor Advantage is a certification for office furniture and seating that verifies there are little VOCs within the product. VOCs are harmful and lower the air quality which is a major concern within office buildings.
The VOC criteria for the Indoor Advantage™ certification are based on emission criteria established in the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Associa...
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Furniture
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The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.
LEED is a voluntary, consensus-based national rating system for developing high-per...
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The NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program provides a certificate for homes meeting "green home guidelines" built by residential builders who practice sustainable, high performance building strategies making the home a comfortable, healthy and affordable place that reduces energy and water usage, promotes renewable energy use and helps protect the land where the home is built.
In a ...
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NFRC is a non-profit organization that administers the only uniform, independent rating and labeling system for the energy performance of windows, doors, skylights, and attachment products.
NFRC provides the standard for determining and communicating the energy performance of fenestration products (windows, doors, skylights and curtain wall systems). NFRC also administers a certifi...
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Sky Lights
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The Processed Chlorine Free Label is reserved for recycled content paper. This includes all recycled fibers used as a feedstock that meet EPA guidelines for recycled or post-consumer content. PCF papers have not been rebleached with chlorine containing compounds.
The Processed Chlorine Free ecolabel indicates:
No chlorine or chlorine compounds were used in the paperm...
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Pulp and Paper Products
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RugMark recruits carpet producers and importers to make and sell carpets that are made without illegal child labor. RugMark certified companies agree to adhere to strict no-child-labor guidelines and by permit random inspections of their carpet looms. By doing so manufacturers earn the right to place the certified and individually numbered RugMark label on their carpets. If inspectors find ...
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Office Furniture
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The Green Building Program encourages a whole-systems approach through design and building techniques to minimize environmental
impact and reduce the energy consumption of buildings while contributing to the health of its occupants....
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Energy Efficient Building
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SMaRT Consensus Sustainable Product Standards provide substantial global benefits for building products, fabric, apparel, textile & flooring. They reference many other certifications that they work with in their goal to certify over 60% of the worlds products as eco friendly.
Their criteria and standards:
Rating System: Sustainable, Sustainable Silver, Sust...
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Wood Certification
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, Environmentally Friendly Products and Services
, Energy Efficiency
, Consumer Products
, Cleaning & Janitorial Products
, Carpet Standards
SCS Sustainable Choice™ certifies that carpets and rugs qualify for LEED EQ 4.3 for low-emitting carpets. Carpets and rugs earning either the Platinum or Gold level of SCS Sustainable Choice™ also earn EPP (Environmentally Preferable Product) certification.
The Sustainable Choice Brand Certification has the most stringent requirements over any other certif...
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The SFI program is a comprehensive sustainable forestry certification system that encompasses more than 143 million certified acres across North America and includes 216 program participants, making it one of the largest forest certification programs in the world. The SFI program offers a labeling system for program participants to use to indicate that their products are independently...
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Wood Certification
The Tacoma-Pierce County Built Green® Program includes a land development, new single and multi-family home construction, and remodeling components. The Tacoma-Pierce County Built Green® Program is a certification program that recognizes industry members who build above and beyond regulatory co...
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Building Certification
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The Carpet and Rug Institute has established the Green Label program to test for VOCs in cushion used under carpet. This program helps the carpet manufacturer, installer and end user identify and utilize low-emission cushion.
Cushion products that meet the current emissions criteria can display the program’s green and white seal. Products are retested reg...
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Flooring
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Green Label Plus is an independent testing program that identifies carpet with very low emissions of VOCs to help improve indoor air quality. It is an enhancement to the CRI Green Label Carpet Testing Program. By selecting Green Label Plus carpet or adhesive, you are assured one of the lowest emitting products on the market, and you may be able to earn LEED or Green Guide for Health Care po...
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Flooring
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USGBC-Kansas City works with many other local and regional organizations to promote sustainable design and construction in the Midwest....
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The Vermont Builds Greener (VBG) Program, an initiative of Building for Social Responsibility (BSR), certifies residential buildings that are constructed to sustainable criteria. The criteria, or Scorecard, was created and supported by regional experts. The focus of the program is to promote the construction of homes that ...
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