What It Really Takes to Build Better
Inside the 2025 Plan from mindful MATERIALS and the Forums to Align Tools, Data, and People Across the Built Environment
Designing better buildings isn’t just about energy modeling, green roofs, or clean indoor air—it starts with making informed choices about the materials we use. To meet society’s needs now and in the future, we must embed transparency and accountability into every stage of a product’s lifecycle, ensuring that in shaping the spaces around us, we aren’t unintentionally causing harm elsewhere.
In 2025, mindful MATERIALS (mM) and the Forums are focused on building the infrastructure to make that possible at scale—developing shared tools, aligning strategies, and fostering collaborative action so everyone in the built environment can make smarter, more responsible product decisions.
By the industry, for the industry
Our Adventure to the Materials Easy Button
In order to reduce the impact of buildings, we need to address the wide-ranging impacts of the products we're using to build them. To do so, we all need an easier way to understand what products are more sustainable. We need to be able to connect sustainability investment to a return on investment.
No matter where you are in your adventure towards a more sustainable materials future, mM is here to facilitate us all to see this future be a reality. By consolidating the amazing work building industry has done to date, we're enabling foundational pieces of work for the industry to build upon.
These foundational pieces are our collective adventure to the Materials Easy Button, to see our shared sustainable future become a reality. Together, is the only way.
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mindful MATERIALS is built on over a decade of collective action, collaboration and engagement that has made us a trusted and neutral home for materials sustainability. We see an incredible opportunity to build on industry momentum materials pledges, new leadership, and a deep hunger for next steps and accountability. What comes next takes alignment, and it will take all of us.
