The Connection Between Home & Health with Kristin Glossner

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Notes from this episode:


WELL Building Standard (https://www.wellcertified.com/certifi...)


WELL AP (https://www.wellcertified.com/well-ap/)


Phius (https://www.phius.org/)


Certified Passive House Consultant (https://www.phius.org/certifications/...)


LEED (https://www.usgbc.org/leed)


LEED AP (https://www.usgbc.org/credentials/lee...)


LEED Green Rater (https://www.usgbc.org/credentials/lee...)


Green Guard (https://www.ul.com/services/ul-greeng...)


FloorScore (https://www.scsglobalservices.com/ser...)


Green Label Plus (https://carpet-rug.org/testing/green-...)


Cradle to Cradle (https://c2ccertified.org/certified-pr...)


Fitwel (https://www.fitwel.org/)


Reset (https://www.reset.build/)


Enterprise Green Communities (https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/i...)


Living Building Challenge (https://living-future.org/lbc/)


99% Invisible podcast episode about Octagon Houses (https://99percentinvisible.org/episod...)


Old Colony case study (https://www.newecology.org/the-anne-m...)


Old Colony Harvard School of Public Health study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...)


References on Kristin's research:


Cedeño-Laurent, J.G., Williams, A., MacNaughton, P., Cao, X., Eitland, E., Spengler, J. and Allen, J. (2018). Building Evidence for Health: Green Buildings, Current Science, and Future Challenges. Annual Review of Public Health, [online] 39(1), pp.291–308. https://www.annualreviews.org/content...


Dovjak, M. and Kukec, A. (2019). Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings: An Assessment of Health Risk Factors


Frumkin, H., Bratman, G.N., Breslow, S.J., Cochran, B., Kahn Jr, P.H., Lawler, J.J., Levin, P.S., Tandon, P.S., Varanasi, U., Wolf, K.L. and Wood, S.A. (2017). Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda. Environmental Health Perspectives, [online] 125(7). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28796...


Huang, L., Fantke, P., Ritscher, A. and Jolliet, O. (2022). Chemicals of concern in building materials: a high-throughput screening. Journal of Hazardous Materials, [online] 424. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...%2 0the%20potential%20human%20exposures%20and%20risks,Isaacs%20et%20al.%2C%202014 %2C%20Jolliet%20et%20al.%2C%202021%29. [Accessed 1 Aug. 2022]


Kim, D.H. and Bluyssen, P.M. (2020). Clustering of office workers from the OFFICAIR study in The Netherlands based on their self-reported health and comfort. Building and Environment, [online] 176, p.106860. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...


National Center for Healthy Housing (2008). Background on the Importance of Healthy Housing for Older Adults Prepared by the National Center for Healthy Housing. [online] Available at: https://nchh.org/resource-library/fac... [Accessed 14 Aug. 2024].


Petrovic, E.K., Vale, B. and Pedersen Zari, M. (2017). Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment: Principles for Evaluation. [online] Duxford, United Kingdom; Cambridge, Ma, United States: Woodhead Publishing Elsevier. Available at: https://www-sciencedirectcom.ezproxy3... [Accessed 12 Mar. 2022].


The New School: Healthy Materials Lab (n.d.). Why Healthy Materials. [online] Healthy Materials Lab. Available at: https://healthymaterialslab.org/why-h... [Accessed 3 Apr. 2022]


U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://prod-hml.s3.amazonaws.com/new... [Accessed 20 Apr. 2022].


U.S. Green Building Council (n.d.). Better Building Materials. [online] Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/fil... 08/documents/sick_building_factsheet.pdf [Accessed 29 Apr. 2022]


Welch, L.S. (1991). Severity of health effects associated with building-related illness. Environmental Health Perspectives. [online] Available at: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289... [Accessed 5 Mar. 2022]


Valette, J., Schettler, T. and Wolfe, M. (2014). Asthamagens in Building Materials: The Problem & Solutions. [online] Healthy Building Network. Available at: https://healthybuilding.net/uploads/f... [Accessed 6 May 2022].






Passive House/ Phius (https://www.phius.org/passive-buildin...)


Energy Star (https://www.energystar.gov/partner_re...)


LEED (https://www.usgbc.org/leed#:~:text=LE....