Green Resources

The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) is the science-based source for the facts about carpet and rugs. Whether you are a homeowner, an architect, or a facility manager, making the right decisions starts with having the facts. CRI's job is to prove how your environment for living, working, learning and health is better — thanks to carpet and rugs.

Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is a joint industry-government effort to increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet and reduce the amount of waste carpet going to landfills.

WasteWise helps its partners meet goals to reduce and recycle municipal solid waste and selected industrial wastes.

Recovery 1 is a Resource Recovery, Recycling & Research Facility Dedicated to Developing Sustainable Waste Management Systems

The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation.

Forest Stewardship Council certification is one way to improve the practice of forestry.

GBCI was established with the support of the U.S. Green Building Council to manage the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Building Certification and the Professional Accreditation Processes.

Connecting you to ideas, advice and green home professionals

With a national network of nearly 1000 local affiliates and participating organizations, they combine education with hands-on stewardship to address the needs of communities on an intensely local and effective level.

Waste Resource

Recycling Market Development

This is the home page of the Washington State Department of Ecology, the State's principal environmental management agency.