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The Green Standard™ is proud to have launched the United States’ first Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) System™ on November 19 during the Greenbuild 2008. The EPD System is part of The Green Standard’s BRIGHT GREEN, BRIGHT FUTURE™ campaign, a yearlong educational initiative to empower manufacturers and purchasers to confidently navigate the environmental landscape while making lighter footprints.
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) has become the gold standard for communicating various aspects of a product’s performance, such as life cycle impacts, human health concerns, hazardous substances, and recycled content. To meet standard 14025 of the International Standards Organization, an EPD must be based on product criteria rules that determine what data is to be captured and how it will be measured using life cycle assessment (LCA). Demand for such information has increased rapidly over the past few years, but until now, no comprehensive EPD system has been developed to meet the needs of North American manufacturers.
With the introduction of The Green Standard EPD System, U.S. manufacturers have an opportunity to cost-effectively complete and credibly communicate life cycle information to a broad audience. In addition to their EPD System, The Green Standard has developed the Gaia Product Profile, an innovative tool for integrating diverse types of performance information into a single and comprehensive document. This web-tool provides users with a layered approach to product information, enabling them to access information according to their knowledge level, project nature, and time available.
The Green Standard EPD System gives institutional and individual purchasers independent, impartial assurance of a corporation’s environmental claims, providing them with a straightforward tool they can trust as the information has been validated by a qualified third party and posted by an established NGO. The Gaia Product Profile provides members of the A & D community with a long-awaited tool: a single document that encompasses diverse product performance information, including environmental, human health, mechanical, safety and other performance capabilities. The “Gaia” will provide specifiers and purchasers with a summary of all of the information in a full Environmental Product Declaration Report.

“What our EPD System offers to all U.S. stakeholders is a scientifically-robust platform with a user-friendly interface encompassing a vast array of life cycle and other product performance information,” says Wes Evans, Director of Training for The Green Standard. He brings 23 years of experience with Herman Miller to this role.

“With LCA as its foundation, our EPD system is in alignment with ISO standards and best practices globally.
Deborah Dunning, President & CEO adds "The development of an EPD system and Gaia Product Profile is the culmination of the organization’s work over the past nine years. We are pleased to be able to support U.S. manufacturers in becoming even more effective in the global marketplace through development of a comprehensive EPD system and believe that this work will meet a longstanding need of both institutional and individual consumers in North America. Moreover, as our mission is to advance global sustainability through products and practices, it is fitting that our Gaia Product Profile refers to the principle that the earth is a whole living organism seeking to regulate itself and evolve to greater and greater degrees of harmonization.”
 
 
 
 

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  Deborah Dunning
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  Wes Evans
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  Ellen Hall
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