In case you missed it! This Q+A with @SafePipingMttrs outlines how architects can use HBN’s Informed guidance to find piping options that prioritize human and environmental health. Learn more here:

It’s empowering to see industry leaders and retailers thinking about the impact of toxic chemicals in building products on occupants and the earth. Listen to lumber exec William Hayward's story about his calling to heal our planet by healing our homes:.

Happy New Year! 🌟 Cheers to a greener and healthier 2024. 🥂🌿. We're already stoked for what’s in store. Our new year’s resolutions are focused on restoring the health and well-being of our planet. Will you join us? 🌍✨. #HappyNewYear #GreenCheers

@HarvardBiz We hope you get a chance to take a break and spend time with the ones you love this holiday season. See you in 2024! 🎆. #Sustainability #EmployeeWellness.

As @HarvardBiz says, rest is crucial to functioning at your best personally and professionally as it gives room for creativity to bloom, can help improve memory and cognition, and helps avoid negative emotions that can come with being tired and overworked.

At HBN, sustainability is at the heart of our mission - and our company policies as well. Our office will be closed until the new year so staff can restore their minds and bodies and enjoy time with friends and family.

If you want to help us end the year on a high note, you can still make a tax-deductible donation at today. Together, we can build a future free of toxic chemicals.

Finally, we want to thank YOU, our sustainability community and healthier material champions, for having critical conversations and dedicating yourselves to the work of helping to make the world healthier.

@littlethingsmtr @CEHN -- Aligned with mindfulMaterials to streamline healthy materials selection. A big thank you to all of our collaborators from over the years. We’re honored to work with you to make a healthier, more sustainable world. ✨🌎🌱

@littlethingsmtr -- Worked with @CEHN to promote #ChildrensEnvironmentalHealthWeek

We couldn’t end the year without thanking our incredible friends and partners who helped catalyze our work in 2023. This year we’re grateful for the chance to have:.-- Welcomed @littlethingsmtr into our fiscal sponsorship program

HBN staff were also invited to present Informed and our other guidance to 20+ conferences and events! 📣 Let us know if you’re interested in having staff present at your conference or event in 2024. #KnowBetterDoBetter #HealthyMaterials #Sustainability

As we continue to count down 2023, we’re celebrating the ways our team innovated and shared resources with the AEC community this year. We’re proud to have launched the Informed Product Explorer to connect HBN’s product guidance to the CSI master format.

@littlethingsmtr By bringing LTM under the HBN umbrella, we’re able to support their mission and further our own by raising awareness about one of the populations most vulnerable to chemical pollution: our kids. #EnvironmentalHealth #ChildrensHealth #ChemicalPollution.

HBN is excited to announce @littlethingsmtr as the newest member of our fiscal sponsorship innovation hub. LTM is focused on raising awareness of the negative impacts of chemical exposure on kid's health and development.

@MaterialRsrch 🌏 All people and the planet cannot thrive until harms across the materials supply chain are eliminated. And that’s where, once again, vinyl misses. Remember the Uyghur workers on your next build and select non-vinyl products. #EnvironmentalJustice.

@MaterialRsrch The report further found that every PVC company in the Region was active in these programs - which means that some PVC building products come at a human cost.

Why #VinylHasToGo: A report released last year by Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice and @MaterialRsrch shared that 10% of the world’s vinyl is made in the Uyghur Region of China where the govt has instituted programs equated to forced labor.

@sthlmresilience HBN are fighting to increase awareness of, & reduce exposure to, harmful chemicals. Pease consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our vital work. We’re excited to take on these pressing challenges–but can’t do it without your help.

When will we know that the earth has reached its limit? In 2022, the @sthlmresilience announced that the planetary boundary related to chemical pollution (referred to as “novel entities”) surpassed the safe level for humanity. But the good news is that organizations like (contd)