Sustainable Communities

IMT is dedicated to creating sustainable communities across the U.S. Learn more about how we're ensuring that buildings are contributing to the environmental, social, and economic well-being of dozens of cities.

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Healthy Buildings, Healthy Lives Survey

This report is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Market Transformation, VELUX, and YouGov®. To define healthy buildings, the survey combines the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 9 Foundations of a Healthy Building and the National Center for Healthy Housing’s Principles of a Healthy Homes. It also mirrors questions used in the … Continued

How to Center Community Priorities in a Building Performance Standard

While many organizations, governments, communities, businesses, foundations are all chipping away at climate change from different angles, the planet is still warming and more immediate challenges around affordability and health divert attention from the urgency around climate. How can we as a society do better? By bringing more people into climate action! Some of the … Continued