What is Pharos?
The Pharos Project is made up of three elements: the Framework, Lens, and Wiki. The Framework proposes categories of environmental concern for analysis, covering health, resource sustainability and social justice (e.g., occupant exposure, renewable materials, and corporate responsibility). Each category is defined by an intent that describes the problem to be solved and an ideal set of attributes that address that intent. Key questions and criteria are then used to establish a rating system to measure progress toward the ideal goal. The Lens offers a tool to illustrate the rating for a product in an easy to grasp graphic format along with a label listing critical product content information. A comparative chart format for expressing the ratings of different products for quick comparison is also planned. The Wiki provides a virtual commons where we invite the building material user community to discuss green materials, both to help develop the Framework and Lens and other tools and to d
