Perspectives on greener product development and manufacturing from Sustainable Minds, our partners, customers and contributors.

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CUSTOMER STORY WEBCAST SERIES: Transparency is the New Green, in Healthy, High Performance Schools Part 5: Carnegie Fabrics & CHPS

By Sustainable Minds on August 15, 2017

Webinar recorded Thu, Aug 10 @ 2pm ET

Welcome to our customer webcast series featuring building product manufacturers making credibly greener & healthier products. Learn how they are working to understand and improve the environmental performance and material health of their products.

Join us to learn about:

  • Which products have disclosures and why
  • What they learned from creating disclosures
  • What they've been doing to improve
  • How to use product transparency information to make better informed specification decisions
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Transparency is the New Green, Webcast

CUSTOMER STORY WEBCAST SERIES: Transparency is the New Green, Part 4: Valspar & Inpro

By Sustainable Minds on July 13, 2017

Webinar recorded Tues, July 11 @ 2pm ET

Welcome to our customer webcast series featuring building product manufacturers making credibly greener & healthier products. Learn how they are working to understand and improve the environmental performance and material health of their products.

Visit their SM Transparency Catalog listings:

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Marketing, Products, Transparency is the New Green, Webcast

SM Transparency Catalog DEMO: The Educational Marketing Platform for Product Transparency

By Sustainable Minds on June 30, 2017

Find, understand, learn, share, reward...change.

NEW release! 500+ brands, 1000s of products and growing.

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Manufacturing, Marketing, Materials & processes, Standards & regulations, Supply chain, Webcast

CUSTOMER STORY WEBCAST SERIES: Transparency is the New Green, in Healthy, High Performance Schools, Part 3: Tarkett & CHPS

By Sustainable Minds on April 3, 2017

Webinar recorded Tuesday, March 28 | 2–3pm ET
Learn about Tarkett's healthy products & how the SM/CHPS partnership benefits manufacturers and AECs.

Now find more than 800 products from all three Tarkett North American brands in the SM Transparency Catalog – all in one place. Read the press release >

The SM/CHPS partnership promotes the use of products with environmental and material health disclosures in K-12 educational facilities. We invite manufacturers to list their products in the SM Transparency Catalog.

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Transparency is the New Green, Webcast

Winter 2017 | Business Insights – Sustainable Minds – From hurdle to marketing tool, making money with product transparency

By Sustainable Minds on March 21, 2017

We invite you to join SM CEO Terry Swack to discuss: The business case for integrating product transparency into product marketing

The Business Insights article in US Builders Review this month tells the story of Sustainable Minds Transparency Products and the business case for integrating product transparency into product marketing.

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In the press, Marketing, Products, Webcast

Webinar: Partnership with Collaborative for High Performance Schools to promote product transparency in healthy, high-performance schools

By Sustainable Minds on February 6, 2017

Webinar recorded Thu, Feb 2 @ 2pm ET

Learn more about the SM/CHPS partnership along with Ecore International, CHPS member and SM Transparency Catalog customer.

SM and CHPS announce a partnership to promote the use of products with environmental and material health disclosures in K-12 educational facilities.

CHPS is a leading national organization working to improve student performance by building the best possible schools, incorporating integrated design, sustainable products, and leading construction practices. Sustainable Minds is the first cloud software solutions provider and program operator to deliver simple, understandable and meaningful product environmental reporting.

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Transparency is the New Green, Webcast

CUSTOMER STORY WEBCAST SERIES: Transparency is the New Green, Part 2: TOTO & View Dynamic Glass

By Sustainable Minds on January 25, 2017

Webinar recorded Tues, Jan 24 @ 2pm ET

Welcome to our new customer webcast series featuring building product manufacturers making credibly greener & healthier products. Learn how they are working to understand and improve the environmental performance and material health of their products.

Visit their SM Transparency Catalog listings:

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Transparency is the New Green, Webcast

CUSTOMER STORY WEBCAST SERIES: Transparency is the New Green, Part 1: GAF and Knauf Insulation

By Sustainable Minds on December 10, 2016

Webinar recorded Thu, Dec 8 @ 2pm ET

Welcome to our new customer webcast series featuring building product manufacturers making credibly greener & healthier products. Learn how they are working to understand and improve the environmental performance and material health of their products.

Join us to learn about:

  • Which products have disclosures and why
  • What they learned from creating disclosures
  • What they've been doing to improve
  • How to use product transparency information to make better informed specification decisions
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Transparency is the New Green, Webcast

INTRODUCING The SM Performance Fact Sheet

By Sustainable Minds on August 2, 2016

Recorded Wednesday, Aug 3, 2016, 2–3pm EDT

Leverages your existing disclosures to make them findable on your website & in the cloud.

84% of architects research products on your website first.
– Venveo Marketing to Architects Research & Trends Report, 2016

With LEED v4 just around the corner, more AEC professionals will be looking for products with transparency information. Have you made it easy for them to find yours and what will they learn when they do?

We invite you to preview the SM Performance Fact Sheet™.
If you are a manufacturer who has already invested in environmental and material disclosures and want to unlock their value by making them findable and understandable by prospects, customers and your sales & support teams – watch this webinar.

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Webinar: Meet the Program Operator Consortium

By Sustainable Minds on June 30, 2016

We are 3 standards developers & certifiers + 1 design, technology & innovation company. Our goal is to provide simpler, standardized and more useful solutions.

Recorded June 23, Thursday, 2pm ET / 11am PT

The Consortium (http://programoperators.org/) is your expert resource and advocate for creating standardized product category rules (PCRs), reviewing life cycle assessment (LCA) reports, and verifying and publishing your choice of Type III environmental declaration formats: EPDs and Sustainable Minds Transparency Reports™.

Why the Consortium? With the proliferation of program operators, complex reporting requirements and an increased demand for these services, our members recognized the value of pooling resources, jointly conducting outreach, education and communications and promoting the overall use of PCRs, LCAs and EPDs in the marketplace.

This unprecedented relationship brings increased uniformity, greater recognition and visibility for your product transparency work and greater value to decision-makers when specifying your materials or products.
 

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