Closing in on the end of year one, mindful MATERIALS provides an update on the Forums’ progress.
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Materials Sustainability Progress Is Bottlenecked — But It Doesn’t Have To Be
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Updates to the mM Portal as of June 2023!
Expanded Digitized Data Inputs
Enhanced Filtering Functionality
New Report Capabilities
When you walk into a museum exhibition — you enter prepared to encounter and absorb new ideas. You’re ready to explore what’s written on the walls, hung from the ceiling, spotlighted on the floor. But have you ever considered…what’s the impact of the paint on those walls to the people who painted? Is there forced labor in the flooring supply chain? Where do these materials go at the end of their life in the exhibition?
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How do we reduce the drastically reduce the embodied impacts of the build environment? TOGETHER. That was the powerful message — in words and in action — from mindful MATERIALS’ first Impact Summit, held at Brookfield Properties on June 13th. Read the recap and learn what’s coming next!
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This is Part 2 of a four-part series on the Common Materials Framework. In our first post, Aligning Momentum, we introduced the Materials Pledges, and their power to generate forward industry momentum. Here, we dive further into the concept of the Common Materials Framework and its ability to help companies efficiently navigate towards an aligned vision of material sustainability.
(Post 2 of 4 on the mM Common Materials Framework)
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Global, large-scale pledges to reduce the impacts of materials in the built environment have been cropping up in recent years. Hundreds of companies and individual practitioners have committed to action, sending a powerful market signal to manufacturers. But without a common definition of what a sustainable material is and how you document it, we’re in danger of creating more chaos than transformation.
(Post 1 of 4 on the mM Common Materials Framework)
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