Tom Lent
Energy & Environmental Consulting
Healthy Building
Healthy Building Network with whom I am now working on
eliminating toxic materials from construction such as PVC and arsenic and
developing green specifications for hospital construction and other commercial
building projects. California
Sustainable Hospitals Forum which I coordinated in 2003.
Pharos
building material evaluation system I am helping develop.
Resilient
Flooring & Chemical Hazards: A Comparative
Analysis of Vinyl and Other Alternatives for Health Care published in 2009
Toxic Data
Bias and the Challenges of Using LCA in the Design Community Paper
presented at the USGBC GreenBuild 2003 conference.
Green Guidelines for Healthcare Construction Guidance document for sustainable
healthcare design and construction I helped coordinate. Has
now become the basis for LEED for Healthcare
which I helped develop.
Health Care Without Harm and the CleanMed
conference whose green building track I helped coordinate in 2002, 2004, &
2006.
Healthy
Buildings: Alternatives to Toxics in Construction conference that I
coordinated in
Berkeley Cohousing Community development project I managed. Completed in 1997.
Sustainable,
Low Toxic Materials Use & Design in Berkeley Cohousing Lessons learned
in designing and constructing Berkeley Cohousing to
minimize its environmental impact. (November 1999 update).
Energy
Transit
Savings A comparative analysis of
economic, environmental and energy impacts of commuting on the Bay Area Rapid
Transit system (BART) instead of by automobile. See also the Excel spreadsheet Transit Savings
Calculator that allows calculation of environmental and economic savings
from specific stations for different cars types. (January 2004)
Renewable
Energy in Cuba A review of sustainable energy development in Cuba based upon a survey
undertaken on a Global Exchange trip I in which I participated during June of
1996
Biodiesel
& Solar An overview of the uses and advantages of biodiesel fuel, fleets that
are using it now and how it was used on a North American solar education tour I
organized in 1994
NCAT
Energy Coordinating Agency of
Philadelphia a non profit that I helped found in 1985 to ensure low and moderate
income access to affordable and environmentally sustainable sources of energy
and water.
Other
Environmental
Jump
Start mixed paper recycling program The final report on a public
education program I designed and ran in Berkeley that resulted in a 100 ton per
month increase in the recycling of mixed paper. (May 1999)
Buying Green Selective list of
resources for finding everything from sustainably harvested wood to
environmentally friendly dry cleaning. Some Bay Area, some US nationwide
(Last update
East Bay Kids
Summer Camp Guide for the
Berkeley / Oakland / Albany / El Cerrito area An opinionated guide to summer day camps
in the East Bay (spring and winter break camps too) and residential camps from
around Northern California with selective reviews by parents, dates, fees,
registration information and links to camp program web sites.
Los Mapaches Latin American music
ensemble focusing on
music of the
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Tom Lent * Energy &
Environmental Consulting * 2464 West St * Berkeley, CA 94702 * tominfo@igc.org