Ken Geiser, PhD
Ken Geiser, PhD

USGBC Senior Research Fellow, Professor Emeritus of Work Environment, and Co-Director, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

States Lead on Safer Chemical Policies
17 Mar 2014 • openbook 5 minute read
Last week the California Department of Toxic Substances (DTSC) announced three “priority products” containing chemicals of concern that will inaugurate its Safer Consumer Products Program.  The program requires that the manufacturers of these products will need to …
DTSC Headquarters, Sacramento, CA

The New Chemicals in Products Information Transparency
13 Jan 2014 • openbook 3 minute read
One of the most impressive messages of the Materials and Human Health Summit at the Philadelphia Greenbuild Conference in November was how rapidly chemical information transparency in building materials has become commonly accepted.  Several hundred designers and build …
Outdoor apparel companies have confronted information transparency; now it's the building industry's turn.