Fact: green design starts with green materials. There are heaps of green materials in the market today but designers don't have time to find all of them. We solve this problem by allowing users to add, share, and collect an exponential number of materials. Add materials to share new solutions and showcase your green expertise.

Sustainable businesses seem to be everywhere. What makes them so isn't always apparent. Below is a graphical look at the range of sustainable businesses.

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Projects. Find completed projects, construction projects, and projects on the boards to inspire your next design. Save projects you want to follow or add your own. For the next few weeks we'll be featuring a new green project, every day. Keep this page bookmarked to see when the new projects roll in.

Hosted by Tongji University, GIGA's Raefer Wallis presented 'From Sustainability to Regeneration in Architecture' to Tongji's Sino-Finnish College. The lecture introduced the concepts of MNI (Minimize Negative Impact), RESET, Regeneration, and maximizing positive impact to challenge conventional understanding and approaches to green materials and buildings.

In 2004, GIGA developed Asia's first platform to rank building materials based on ecological and health impact. In 2011 - The International Year of Chemistry - GIGA founded the Chemistry department, which helps all manufacturers to identify health hazards within days. Once identified, chemicals are flagged according to their health hazards, like cancer or developmental toxicity. Health hazards are organized according to their level of concern using clear benchmarks. The results are extremely powerful. Click the followed video for more infromation.

Long-term exposure to benzene primarily impacts the bloodstream. Over time, benzene exposure depletes red blood cells (leading to anemia) and bone marrow weakens. Benzene exposure can cause excessive bleeding which weakens the immune system and increases the risk of infection. Long-term exposure to high levels of airborne benzene can cause leukemia, particularly acute  myelogenous leukemia, often referred to as AML.

In China, selling air purifiers is good business - and its getting better everyday. One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to relate the growth in sales to the growth in public awareness of air pollution.

However, the irony is that they pollute more than they clean. Like many green technologies today, no one has bothered to step back and look at the big picture.

Trace your memory back to design school. Remember how useful design critiques were? A semester of work culminating with a feedback session with a jury of peers and experts aimed solely at improving your ideas. Why is it that when we leave school we also leave this culture of critique behind?

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) evaluates surface water using five grades; Class Ⅰ , Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ and Ⅴ. Each grade includes limits for chemical content, metals and bacteria.

Circular economy is an economic management strategy used by manufacturers to eliminate production waste. Under this practice, all nutrients return to production following use. To build a circular economy, Manufacturers must first classify all nutrients as either biological or geological.