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.

Expertise and experience for the above services comes from a varied background including:

  • Consultant and in-house healthy building expert for Kaiser Permanente, a multi-billion dollar HMO. Responsibilities included policy development, establishing "greening" building standards, furniture, and equipment through research and the implementation of new sustainable materials and technologies for facilities nation wide.
  • Work with the EPP (Environmentally Preferable Product) Database Work Group for the California Department of the State Architect.
  • An active member on the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council, where participants discuss and share information and experiences relating to advancing green chemistry and design for environment as it pertains to sustainable supply chain management.
  • Contributing member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ).

Selected Past and Current Clients

"Environmentalism is, ultimately, a question of design -- of ethical design"
David Orr, 1992