recycled textile waste refiberized and spun into yarn for a variety of applications

uses Seaweed made into yarn biopolymer that is extracted from seaweed, the most regenerative organisms on our planet and absorbs carbon dioxide in the ocean, similar to trees on land.

artificially spins the highest-performance silk fibers through a spider-inspired process. The fibers are biodegradable, made from protein, and 1000x more energy efficient than synthetic plastic fibers. Spun from a liquid gel at room temperature and without harsh chemicals, water is the only byproduct.

creates fibers, yarn, and textiles through a degumming method based on the natural degradation of plant fibers observed in tidal streams. This method uses far less energy than traditional hemp processing, is more affordable, and is of higher quality than other fiber types. At the same time, the process sequesters carbon in the effluent, which can be returned to the ocean as a natural carbon sink.

Ultima is a high-performance, energy-saving, acoustic ceiling tile made with sustainably produced carbon-sequestering biochar.

produces tiles that combine biochar (pyrolyzed biomass) with natural clay, fibers, and binding minerals. It’s a clean, biodegradable material that contains no petrochemicals, Ordinary Portland Cement, glues, asbestos, resins, or crystalline silica.

produces BioCarbon^® biochar from the world’s largest agricultural waste, rice husks, for a wide range of carbon-storing applications. Utilization includes vital soil amendments, fillers in asphalt, concrete, tiles, and drywall, and filters for air and water.

is a sustainable biochar used in concrete mixes, inks, and other materials. By aligning with circular economy principles and offering scalable solutions, Our Carbon is at the forefront of waste management and sustainable material development.

makes biochar-based concrete admix materials that permanently sequester captured carbon throughout the built environment, while reducing the need for cement, sand, and other raw materials.

produces a mobile technology solution that leverages natural thermal processes and precision automation to convert crop residues into biochar, a stable form of carbon, building soil health and remaining out of the atmosphere.

is a project developer that leverages proprietary climate technology combined with natural processes and advanced engineering to build a rapidly scalable carbon dioxide removal solution. Their patented Carbolysis^™ reactors convert waste biomass into stable biochar, safely locking carbon away for centuries and generating renewable energy in the process.

produces premium biochar engineered to enhance thermal insulation, reduce material weight, and increase durability and strength in construction materials. Their versatile biochar products and applications help pave the way for more sustainable construction projects.

lists biochar suppliers and their contact information across North America. Resources can be sorted by name, state, or sector.

incorporates natural building materials like straw bales to produce high-performing wall systems with the exacting precision of modern construction techniques.

creates panels, roof, flooring and wall assemblies from locally sourced wheat and barley straw in Canada that are easy to customize and integrate in any building project.

develops cleantech manufacturing solutions using their more energy efficient, less costly and sustainable digital materials fabrication technologies for textile dyeing.

CO₂ technology is the world’s first 100% water-free and chemical-free textile processing solution.

enables a technology to print and dye textiles without using any water, providing a quick, simple, environmentally friendly, and economically viable way to color and print materials. It also addresses the problem of excessive water use and pollution by lowering the carbon footprint associated with conventional dyeing processes.

uses nature's design cues to create regenerative fibers that are ready to use in today's fashion industry using modified microbes to produce designer proteins that give textile fibers their performance and color without plastics or water pollution.

is a biomaterials company creating and delivering carbon negative pigment and ink products made from algae for the packaging and textile industry.

uses an energy neutral pyrolysis process to turn organic wastes into a material additive and black pigment that can be used to color everything from textiles to bioplastics.

is developing a biosynthetic, indigo blue dye for the denim industry that is free of fossil and toxic chemicals.

creates non-toxic dyes that are made using color extracted from food waste and our unique circular process.

has produced a dyeing technique, drastically reducing water usage and carbon emissions

has created a sustainability metrics template sheet that gets incorporated into a project’s drawing set to convey performance intent in a more standardized way.

has created an ecosystem monitoring system in collaboration with the University of Maryland. The system detects disturbances to any kind of vegetation cover, including forests, grasses, shrubs, and even crops occurring anywhere on Earth in near real-time.

is designed to supplement a whole-building LCA in early design phases. It is meant to be a reference for the order of magnitude of early LCA decisions, allowing designers to quickly compare the embodied carbon impacts of various standard building systems and design options.

helps to measure, manage and reduce manufacturer's environmental impacts while offering suppliers the opportunity to enhance their operational and resource efficiency, procure more sustainably and drive down costs.

guides countries to systematically assess water use, allocation, and tradeoffs across multiple sectors, to withstand the impacts of climate change.

is a coalition of manufacturers, retailers and designers dedicated to raising awareness and expanding the adoption of environmentally sustainable practices across the home furnishings industry. SFC urges the use of Life Cycle Assessment for tracking wood flow.

provides requirements and guidelines for measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of a product.

connects the commercial construction and design community to +2 billion finished sq ft of project inspiration and +850K SKUs of product data, simplifying and accelerating impact-aware procurement and analysis for their building projects.

helps building professionals identify how and why to use LCA in their work and determine the environmental impacts of a building.

provides a combination of LCA specialized tools and perspectives.

impact estimator helps designers easily incorporate environmental information while in the early stages of a project.

software is a powerful software used to evaluate the environmental impacts of various products, technologies, services, and systems.

helps you become an informed changemaker that has the power to reduce the environmental footprint of products and services.

is an open source and free software that makes LCA and Sustainability Assessment more accessible and affordable.

is an automated life cycle assessment software that helps you calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of your building & infra projects, products and portfolio.

assesses the environmental impacts on all stages of a product’s life.

is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool for interior projects. It allows you to easily compute interior product calculations and upload your project items to track metrics precisely.

Product Footprints is an AI-based sustainability tool for sustainable procurement. It uses AI to address the main challenges in understanding product-related emissions: speed, accuracy, and actionability.

automates LCA workflows, fills data gaps with AI-powered proxy matching, and provides continuous, certifiable models.

automates life cycle assessments (LCAs), eliminating complexity and reducing costs, while providing faster insights and minimizing manual work.

Open Standard is the leading standard in the building industry for reporting building product contents and associated health information.

is a platform to share and find healthy building products. It provides a free database used by leading designers, real estate owners, and conscientious homeowners to specify products they know they can trust.

is a measure of safer, more sustainable products made for the circular economy. To receive certification, products are assessed for environmental and social performance across five categories: material health, material reuse, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness.

brings you all the brands that have products with disclosures required to meet product transparency credits and criteria in green building rating systems.

the global directory of ecolabels currently tracking 456 ecolabels in 199 countries, and 25 industry sectors for those who are commmited to creating a positive change impact for the planet.

standards cover 375 product and service categories, which range from building and construction to lighting, hospitality properties, and household cleaners.

is a collaborative material data hub that connects brands and their certifications.

is a set of assessment tools and services focused on data quality and transparency to help the built environment become healthier and more sustainable.

platform provides project management, research and communication tools; a product library; and comprehensive guidance to help project teams find and use healthier building materials.

Red List is a tool for building product transformation. It documents the “worst in class” materials, chemicals, and elements known to pose serious risks to human health and the environment.

centralizes all sustainability information into a single platform and tackles the lack of structured and easy-to-consume data around the sustainability performance of building products.

allows designers, builders, product manufacturers, and consumers to select cost-effective, environmentally-preferable building products based on consensus standards and designed to be practical, flexible, and transparent.

is a tool for anyone looking to make more ‘mindful’ decisions about materials. By organizing how different certifications and standards contribute to the 5 buckets of health identified in the Materials Pledges, the CMF allows individuals and companies to turn their ‘why’ into ‘how’.

a global software compliance tool, empowers regulatory authorities to restrict the manufacturing, placing on the market, or use of substances posing unacceptable risks to human health or the environment. This ensures that only safe chemicals are used in various applications.

is an all-in-one materials platform that allows you to research, specify, and manage building materials seamlessly.

simplifies materials management so that architects and designers can make better product choices.

by Habitable has created a materials modeling tool that will help you quickly and confidently choose better building products while saving time, money, and reducing errors.

provides an aligned framework to inspire change and track progress as an industry towards better materials for people and planet based on 5 pledges that help classify products specifications.

has designed practical tools to help cities include forests, trees and green infrastructure in their decision-making, planning and investments.

offers an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time.

identifies and tracks past, present, and future mangrove restoration activities to enable learning and information exchange between practitioners.

creates forest management solutions that improve safety and productivity of remote operations by the method of utilizing unmerchantable biomass in a way that minimizes decomposition with low-capital investment.

is a building energy simulation program utilized by engineers, architects, and researchers to model energy and water use in buildings, facilitating efficient design and resource management.

is an essential tool for project design teams, aiding in the assessment of energy consumption impacts linked to design choices and supporting the achievement of LEED energy performance credits.

supports research and innovation that makes fossil energy technologies cleaner and less harmful to the people and the environment. They platform provides tools for awareness about climate change.

from The International Living Future Institute is a globally recognized, third-party performance certification that validates and showcases exceptional energy performance in the built environment, supporting climate action goals.

certification program, managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), assesses and certifies green homes that meet rigorous energy efficiency and sustainability standards, promoting the construction of homes that are highly energy-efficient and often capable of producing as much energy as they consume, contributing to carbon reduction and climate action efforts.

is a powerful environmental performance analysis software for the AEC sector, assisting in optimizing buildings for various aspects of occupant health and energy efficiency as a Rhinoceros 3D plugin.

is a powerful ray tracing program that enables accurate and physically valid lighting and daylighting simulations. It is presently well established in the research community and has already been used for many projects.

offers climate trends affecting ecosystems and for developing adaptation and mitigation strategies.

connects climate with architecture to help users create better-performing, responsive buildings by providing climate-specific design advice for the building site and scale.

has developed a climate monitoring tool providing historic trends and current data sets.

is a part of CMG’s mission to improve social and ecological wellbeing holds increasing significance due to the threat of climate change.

focuses on strategies to help shrink the carbon footprint of the built environment and help communities adapt to the effects of climate change.

aims to spur action at the pace and scale needed to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), halting loss of biodiversity, and building a just and equitable economy.

is an online simulator that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to test and explore cross-sector climate solutions.

is a research institute that addresses the sustainability challenges facing humanity, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and research from local food systems to global financial markets. The Planetary Boundaries Framework is one of their seminal outputs.

and its partners are building the data and tools to enable cities to make rigorous, evidence-based decisions on surfaces.

from Metropolis, provides tools to learn about the basics of low-carbon solutions and develop a common language for talking about carbon in the built environment.

for Architects serves to provide architects an overview and the necessary steps to be taken to reduce embodied carbon in their projects.

for Building Owners by CLF helps building owners meet net zero commitments that include embodied carbon reductions through scope 3 GHG and other sustainability commitments.

is the carbon emitted in the production phase of products and materials, from mining and processing of natural resources, transport to processing sites, and the manufacturing phases.

helps you learn how to increase carbon sequestration and reduce carbon footprints from fifty tips and tricks.

is a guide to designing for resilience developed by HKS and AIA. It aims help architects on all types of projects assess potential hazards objectively and mitigate the effects of these hazards through design.

offers over 500 digital tools to build resilience and a framework to identify and mitigate climate hazards, aiding in building resilience and addressing climate-related risks.

developed by ASLA, is a dynamic toolkit for landscape planning and design, featuring case studies and resources showcasing multi-benefit systems, small-scale solutions, and the vital role of landscape architects in making communities more resilient.

is a carbon ratings agency that equips world-leading organizations with the knowledge, tools and confidence to make better climate decisions with an aim to scale investment in environmental markets that deliver a sustainable future.

is an ongoing initiative to research, summarize, and prioritize the most important actions we can take across all emissions sources on projects within the built environment.

is a large language model (LLM) that supports and deepens a rigorous, science-based understanding of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). OpenAir Collective members develop and maintain this free resource for the general public, policymakers, journalists, and civil society organizations.

sets the standards to measure and manage Green House Gas (GHG) emissions.

is a global daily CO₂ emissions dataset from fossil fuels and cement production.

measures the carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constituting the longest record of direct measurements of CO₂ in the atmosphere.

enables transparent monitoring of global restoration projects between diverse organizations.

is a real-time estimate of the monthly CO₂ level.

tracks human-caused GHG emissions with unprecedented detail and speed.

is an independent scientific project that tracks government climate action and measures it against the globally agreed Paris Agreement aim of pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

from Carbon Direct, provides an interactive world map to learn more about the reporting and climate reporting and climate risk disclosures most relevant to your business, considering factors like revenue, company size, company type, geography, and industry.

is an open data platform that brings together dozens of datasets to let users easily search, analyze, and compare countries’ climate progress and commitments under the Paris Agreement.

distills government support for technologies and practices that remove and store carbon — an essential piece of achieving net-negative emissions.

from the Carbon Leadership Forum, tracks over 230 government policies at all levels — local, state, national, and international — aimed at reducing embodied carbon emissions in materials and construction.

is an interactive tool for visualizing the global carbon removal ecosystem. It aims to offer a comprehensive view of the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) landscape to better explore the breadth of CDR initiatives.

detects changes, maps trends, and quantifies differences on the Earth's surface.

is an international initiative providing for the first time regularly updated, science-based estimates of daily CO₂ emissions.

is a global directory of proposed and enacted carbon removal policies for advocates and analysts. Viewers can filter by type, status, and level of government.

is a carbon calculator that allows users to test and iterate at crucial stages when the design is most flexible enabling designers to establish carbon benchmarking and goals for the project’s detailed design phases.

allows users to compare the total carbon impacts of renovating an existing building vs. replacing it with a new one.

measures construction activities' greenhouse gas impacts in CO₂e by assessing embodied carbon in constructed spaces and their supply chain during construction.

is a interdisciplinary tool to compare projected embodied Carbon emissions, Carbon sequestration, and Carbon stored, for your master planning, urban design, and concept design projects.

includes comprehensive Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) implementation strategies, and a calculator to map each community's potential on multiple levels.

helps you learn how to reduce carbon footprints and sequester more carbon. By participating, you can actively contribute to climate change solutions.

gives an overall picture of how key decisions made at early stages of design can impact the project's total carbon use and allows architects and designers to analyze and estimate the carbon equivalent of emissions associated with all aspects of the project.

will be made available to teams on Perkins&Will's Digital Practice and can be used to translate embodied, operational, site, refrigerant, and renewable CO₂e impacts into annualized and total kgCO₂e impacts, so that these variables could be understood as a part of one picture.

allows users to consider economic and emissions factors to indicate how responsibility for climate finance could be allocated across countries. The calculator offers valuable insights for discussions related to climate finance, loss and damage.

is a web-based platform that measures emission reductions, analyzing product life cycles to identify carbon hotspots. It helps guide effective decarbonization decisions, addressing 99% of GHG impacts from product choices.

is an AI-first carbon accounting platform delivering intelligent automation, comprehensive Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions tracking, and real-time analytics.

improves data collection, enables dynamic and enhanced carbon-footprint and net-zero pathway analysis, and strengthens transparency.

is a tool that sets standards for calculating embodied carbon of concrete.

offers a complete guide to low carbon concrete.

provides a tool for analyzing the implementation of climate programs to ensure that they line up with the science.

is an advanced standard that accelerates climate security and sustainable development efforts by certifying initiatives' impacts on both fronts, with enhanced safeguards and stakeholder engagement for environmental and social integrity.

Program is a leading global GHG crediting initiative, funding emission reduction projects that enhance livelihoods and nature conservation.

route to a Net Zero Standard helps organizations measure and manage their emissions, inform carbon reduction strategies, and align targets for the future – all with tailored advice from our trusted experts.

provides a vision for a future of carbon positive buildings that reverse the effects of climate change. By addressing both operational and embodied carbon emissions, Zero Carbon Certification offers organizations a valuable tool to demonstrate credible climate action.

marks a significant step in utilizing embodied and operational carbon as design parameters in urban planning by looking at the city as a whole – from buildings to roads, parking, landscaping, and infrastructural urban systems.

helps individuals and businesses to calculate and offset their environmental footprint, supporting projects that offer diverse co-benefits like improved air and water quality, habitat protection, and job creation.

offers specific carbon offset standards, ensuring transparency and quality in projects spanning reforestation, sustainable development, GHG emissions reduction via wind power plants, and more, for a cleaner, global future.

collaborates with organizations to implement climate solutions that align with their values, supply chain, and sustainability objectives, maximizing the positive impact of their carbon offsets by supporting new projects that reduce greenhouse gas pollution.

ensures rigor and accountability in the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) sector through the uniquely powerful mechanism of regulatory standards. This initiative provides technical assistance and capacity building for carbon removal policy, focused on quantification standards.

is a tool that aids building developers and owners measure, reduce, and report their carbon data in minutes from any source to help them make smarter choices.