With 25+ years experience in design and green building, specializing in healthy building materials, Inside Matters provides indoor environmental quality and sustainable design consulting, education, and research to healthcare, universities, manufacturers, and government agencies. Jan Stensland, Founding Principal, has been described as "Mother Earth Meets Ms. Science" in that she brings a practical, common sense approach based on sound scientific research to her passion for healthy buildings.

For Product Manufacturers

What Inside Matters can do for your company:

  • Help you understand and unravel the "confusopoly" of product testing, certifications, and standards.
  • Coach and train your people on LEED certification and how best to position your company’s products in relationship to LEED systems.
  • Develop decision making procedures based on emerging indoor air quality and healthy building materials issues and research.
  • "Connect the dots" between emerging and evolving sustainability and health issues specific to your products and position in the marketplace.
  • more

Corporate, Education, Healthcare, Government and Institutional Clients

Green and Healthy Building Consulting

What Inside Matters can do for your organization:

  • Provide LEED and GGHC (Green Guide for Healthcare) certification services for your new buildings, major remodels, operations and maintenance of existing buildings, and tenant improvement projects.
  • Develop green and healthy building and materials policies and standards.
  • Conduct field research on building materials for evidence-based business case studies.
  • Develop implementation tools and “Tool Kits” for actualizing green and healthy building standards.
  • more
"Environmentalism is, ultimately, a question of design -- of ethical design"
David Orr, 1992