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Joel Tickner, ScD

USGBC Senior Research Fellow, Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and a Principal Investigator at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. Sc.D from University of Massachusetts Lowell in Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention.

Event Highlight: Advancing Safer Materials in the Building Product Sector

12 Feb 2015 • 5 minute read

Dialogue regarding materials transparency in the building products sector has increased in recent years through efforts such as the Health Product Declaration, but less progress has been made in designing, specifying, and adopting safer materials. Although knowing what� …

Advancing Solutions through a Focus on Safer Alternatives

31 Jan 2014 • 5 minute read

Tens of thousands of chemicals are in commerce today. Thousands of these end up in the products we use every day. A number of analyses have noted how little we know about which chemicals are in our products and what the health and environmental hazards are. In fact, …