Thanks for sharing, some very interesting ideas.
I'm skeptical about the biodiversity point, at least at that level of generality. It makes sense there are some species that are important for human welfare, maybe in ways that are not initially appreciated, but it seems like a big jump to go from this to biodiversity in general being important.
The improvements to flooring and noise pollution make a lot of sense to me. One interesting intervention I've heard of for the latter is improving the regulations about backup warning alarms on trucks and other vehicles.

Love this.Has there really not been an RCT on floor replacements yet? That surprises me as it would be a relatively easy RCT to do. EarthEnable from Rwanda just won the 2 million dollar Skoll award doing this at scale.
GiveWell must have considered it I would have thought?
Deena's post only mentioned "of at least one large RCT underway, with results expected in a few years" without further reference, but on cursory googling it might be the CRADLE trial?
While GiveWell doesn't seem to have looked into this specifically, this 2015 review of GiveDirectly mentioned that lack of cement floors was in one of GiveDirectly's two sets of eligibility criteria for its standard campaigns:
Happier Lives Institute's 2021 annual review did mention cement flooring among the "micro-interventions" they wanted to look into (alongside deworming, cataract surgery, digital mental health interventions, etc), but I haven't seen anything by them since on this, so I assume it didn't pass their internal review for further analysis.
Happier Lives Institute made an analysis of EarthEnable which was in their chapter in the latest World Happiness report. I guess they will make a report about it in the near future but I am not sure. So they have looked at flooring and housing. :)
Ah, I missed this, thanks! And I appreciate the pointer to EarthEnable in particular. Although it looks like their analysis stopped at the shallow level, so maybe no future report...
EarthEnable looks quite impressive by their own lights: 35,000+ "housing solution projects" completed or in progress benefiting 200,000+ people, and over 1,000 jobs created in East Africa (they "developed training curriculum for masons to learn to build our products to earn a livelihood of 2-3x the median income"). I also appreciate how most of their senior team seems local at a glance.
Just posting HLI's chart here for others' benefit:
Quoting their qualifier too: