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Press Releases

2022

Oct 29

Natural Stone Institute Publishes Industry-Wide Environmental Product Declarations

Jun 14

ACLCA Launches 2022 ACLCA PCR Guidance – Process and Methods Toolkit: Creating standardized, consistent, and reliable PCRs & EPDs for transparency, procurement, and supply chain data

Jun 10

Swatchbox and Sustainable Minds Announce Transparency Data Partnership for Enhanced Sustainable Design

Jun 10

BIMsmith Partners with Sustainable Minds to Provide Integrated Access to Product Transparency Data

2020

Sep 21

Sustainable Minds Announces Transparency Catalog v3.0: Now with all Declare® labels AND all HPDs and environmental product declarations (EPD) for building products in North America, with even more powerful MasterFormat® filtering

Feb 26

Cellulose Insulation North American Environmental Product Declaration

2019

Nov 19

Sustainable Minds and the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator Tool partner to simplify finding and specifying lower embodied carbon construction materials

Nov 19

US Green Building Council-L.A. Announces Program to Help Construction Industry and Tradespeople Put California’s “Buy Clean” Policy into Action

Nov 19

Breakthrough tool launched at Greenbuild empowers users to learn how buildings and infrastructure can radically reduce embodied carbon

Jan 28

Sustainable Minds Announces Transparency Catalog v2.0: Powerful MasterFormat® Filtering and Every Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) in North America

2018

Aug 6

Environmental Performance Software Co. Sustainable Minds Becomes CTO National Sponsor

Jun 19

Ron Blank & Associates and Sustainable Minds Announce Collaboration to Increase Specifications of High-Performance Products

Jan 16

Making Product Transparency Mainstream in the Building Industry

2017

Nov 9

Knauf Insulation North America Partners with Sustainable Minds to Make Product Transparency Understandable and Actionable

Nov 8

Avitru and Sustainable Minds Partner to Provide Environmental Product Transparency Data Within Masterspec®

Nov 7

Knauf Insulation North America Raises the Bar on Product Transparency at 2017 Greenbuild Expo

Oct 19

Armstrong® Ceilings Sustain Portfolio Now Included in Sustainable Minds® Transparency Catalog

Jul 12

Valspar’s Fluropon Pure Now Featured In the Sustainable Minds® Transparency Catalog

Jun 21

ClarkDietrich Steel Framing Products now included in Sustainable Minds® Transparency Catalog

Mar 14

More than 800 Tarkett Products Now Featured in Sustainable Minds® Transparency Catalog™ in North America

Jan 19

Collaborative for High Performance Schools & Sustainable Minds Partner to Promote Product Transparency in Healthy, High-Performance Schools

2016

Oct 18

Sustainable Minds Introduces New SM Transparency Catalog™

Oct 5

Sustainable Minds and GAF introduce new SM Performance Fact Sheet™

Oct 5

Leading Green Building Consortium Expands on First Anniversary

Sep 8

SCS Global Services Joins Consortium Promoting Product Environmental Transparency

Apr 13

Manufacturers Discuss Need for Product Transparency, Stewardship in Green Building Industry with Major Consortium

May 6

2016 SM Transparency Report™/ EPD Framework: Aligning, and aligned with, the industry

Jan 18

SM named Smart Innovator in Verdantix Product Stewardship Solutions report

2015

Nov 18

TOTO Announces The Plumbing Industry's First Products To Earn The International Living Future Institute's "Red List Free" Declare Labels

Nov 17

First Program Operator Consortium Launched for Environmental Product Declarations Market at Greenbuild 2015

Sep 17

TOTO Is The First Plumbing Manufacturer To Earn The International Living Future Institute's Prestigious Declare Label And Offer Sustainable Minds' New Material Health Overview

Sep 14

New SM Material Health Overview™ Standardizes Material Health Reporting To Drive Healthier Building Product Purchase Decisions

Apr 2

Sustainable Minds Transparency Report™ Program Earns Top Product of the Year Award from Environmental Leader

Feb 26

Sustainable Minds introduces the 2015 SM Transparency Report™ Framework and Program

2014

Oct 22

Sustainable Minds and TOTO Accelerate Impactful Innovation in Product Transparency Reporting to Drive Greener Purchase Decisions by Making Environmental Performance Information Understandable and Meaningful

Oct 22

TOTO Takes The Next Step And Verifies Its Commercial Products' Environmental Performance With Sustainable Minds Transparency Reports

Jun 17

Sustainable Minds launches the SM Transparency Report™ Program

Jun 11

NSF International and Sustainable Minds Partner to Accelerate Product Transparency Reporting

2013

Nov 20

TOTO Is The First Plumbing Manufacturer To Validate Its Products' Environmental Performance With New SM Transparency Reports

Nov 20

New SM Transparency Reports Facilitate and Accelerate Greener Product Purchase Decisions, Alternative to EPDs

May 14

Announcing SM v3.0 – New data, your data, Branded Data

May 7

Sustainable Minds Named 'Cool Vendor' in Product Design and Life Cycle Management by Gartner

Apr 18

INDA joins Sustainable Minds Industry Sponsor Program to deliver the first industry-defined lifecycle dataset for nonwovens

Jan 4

Engineers for a Sustainable World and Sustainable Minds partner to increase awareness and education of sustainable product development and life cycle assessment

2012

Mar 29

Innovating Greener Product Curriculum

Feb 6

Sustainable Minds Introduces Custom Data Creation Program for Greener Product R&D

2011

Sep 22

Announcing Strategic Customer Win: Spartech Standardizes Product Development and Commercialization Teams on Sustainable Minds

Mar 16

Sustainable Minds and Eco Innovators Partner to Advance Greener Product Development for Australian Manufacturers

2010

Mar 9

Sustainable Minds: Candidate for WEF Technology Pioneers 2011

Feb 3

Sustainable Minds and MAGNET Partner to Advance Sustainability in Manufacturing

Jan 11

Sustainable Minds and IDSA Partner to Advance Greener Product Design Knowledge and Practice

2009

Oct 27

Sustainable Minds Release 1.0 Offers Product Life Cycle Assessment for Autodesk Inventor Users

Oct 27

Sustainable Minds Introduces First Web-based, On-demand Life Cycle Assessment Software for Greener Product Design

Jun 3

Sustainable Minds launches monthly ecodesign and life cycle assessment workshop series for companies aspiring to create greener products.

2008

Sep 11

Sustainable Minds teams with Autodesk to address growing sustainable product design market opportunity.

Aug 5

Sustainable Minds launches information services for green product design.

Jun 3

Sustainable Minds introduces software suite for ecologically sustainable product design using life cycle assessment in a collaborative workspace.