Ecomedes Supports Non-Profit Mindful Materials: Accelerating Sustainable Procurement for Buildings & Facilities

Mindful Materials is a nonprofit working to simplify and accelerate the adoption of healthier, more sustainable building materials. Ecomedes supports their mission by providing the data and technology that allow sustainability standards to move from aspiration into everyday building product procurement decisions.

Mindful Materials’ building owner members - including Apple, AvalonBay, Harvard, Google, Kaiser, and Wayfair - represent some of the most influential real estate and facilities portfolios in the world. These organizations share a common challenge: how to translate sustainability commitments into scalable, measurable progress.

Ecomedes solves this by operationalizing the mindfulMaterials’s Common Materials Framework (CMF). Using Ecomedes, owners and their architects can standardize sustainability requirements, evaluate products consistently, and make CMF-aligned product data available directly to project teams, partners. This reduces manual effort, shortens procurement cycles, and provides confidence that sustainability goals are being met and measured - not just pledged!

Ecomedes is working with mindfulMaterials and other non-profit partners on SCOUT, its revolutionary AI-powered interface. SCOUT allows team members - especially those without deep sustainability expertise - to navigate the CMF,  understand relevant requirements, and identify compliant options quickly. This opens access to more people across an organization, not just specialists.

Together, Mindful Materials and Ecomedes enable architects, designers, and building owners to move faster, with less friction and greater impact. For Pledge 1% members looking to scale sustainability across their portfolios, Ecomedes + mindfulMaterials offers a practical way to turn commitments into outcomes - by making sustainable materials easier to understand, easier to specify, and easier to adopt at scale.