Session: Built Environment Institute VII: Building Health Back into Community - Toward the Creation of a More Sustainable and Healthful, Less Toxic Built Environment, Part II

4266.1: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Roundtable

Built Environment Institute VII: Building Health Back into Community - Toward the Creation of a More Sustainable and Healthful, Less Toxic Built Environment, Part II

This session builds on the oral presentations in Part I, which explained the links between environmental health, occupational safety, and sustainable development and the importance of living wages and elimination of persistent toxics in specification of products and services for facilities.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: Explain the links between environmental health, occupational safety, and sustainable development. Understand the importance of social factors in the lifecycle cost evaluation of "green" products. Discuss real world examples of these applications in creating more a sustainable and healthful, less toxic built environment.

Organizer(s):

Neal L. Rosenblatt, MS, MS-C
Karla R. Armenti, ScD, MS

Moderator(s):

Jonathan Herz, AIA

Table 1

Working toward a healthy, sustainable future: Taking positive action in your schools and communities
Lois Marie Gibbs

Table 2

Creating a More Healthful, Less Toxic Built Environment *
Arthur B. Weissman, PhD

Table 3

Environmentally Preferable Purchasing at the Pentagon *
Teresa R. Pohlman, PhD

Table 4

Environmental stewardship at Kaiser Permanente *
Lizabeth Taghavi