Webinar: Tools for Safer Chemicals: ChemSec’s SINimilarity & Textile Guide

Get started with the Textile Guide, a chemicals management tool that works for the whole supply chain.

Listen as Jerker Ligthart and Mark Rossi give an introduction to ChemSec business tools. Also learn how SINimilarity can empower and assist downstream users, avoiding regrettable substitutions. …

Webinar: How to use GreenScreen® for LEED v4

Watch Clean Production Action and GreenCircle Certified, LLC highlight the new guidance and show you how to earn points in LEED v4 using GreenScreen. As an added bonus, Annie Bevan from Green Circle Certified talks about the new LEED-Compliant certification pathway, enabling industry professionals to easily recognize products that qualify for LEED v4 points. …

BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference 2015

We celebrated BizNGO's 10th anniversary in typical collaborative spirit by co-organizing our annual conference with the Chemical Footprint Project. Combining the best features of the two initiatives, the conference featured in-depth, high quality presentations that openly addressed the challenges of and opportunities for transitioning from chemicals of high concern to safer alternatives. Presenters and participants included a diverse range of business and environmental… …

Webinar: Safer Alternatives to Methylene Chloride in Paint Strippers

Listen to Dr. Bingxuan Wang of ToxServices, LLC and Molly Jacobs of the Lowell Center’s Environmental Health Program on safer alternatives to methylene chloride in paint strippers. …

Webinar: Deep Dive into Chemical Footprinting

Tim Greiner of Pure Strategies, Sally Edwards of Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Mark Rossi of Clean Production Action gave this complimentary webinar on the Chemical Footprint Project. …

Webinar: Chemical Footprinting with Staples & Trillium Asset Management

Learn the value of chemical footprinting and how to participate in CFP. Join Roger McFadden of Staples, Susan Baker of Trillium Asset Management, and Mark Rossi of Clean Production Action for this introductory webinar into the Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) and its Assessment Tool. …

Growing the Practice of Alternatives Assessment: How to Use the OECD Toolbox Webinar

The toolbox offers access to tools, data, chemical lists, and guidance documents for users with varying levels of expertise, to assist in the substitution of chemicals of concern. The webinar included: An overview and demonstration of the recently launched online OECD Substitution and Alternatives Assessment Toolbox Information on how the tool was developed by the OECD Ad Hoc Group on Substitution of Harmful Chemicals. Webinar Panelists: Kathy Hart Design for the Environment (DfE) Program U.S.… …

GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals Practitioner Program Webinar

Learn about integrating chemical hazard assessment into product design and procurement, and how the GreenScreen Practitioner program can help.  Hear from current Authorized Practitioners and our teaching staff what you will learn and how you can apply it in your organization. …

Webinar:  GreenScreen® - A Method to LEED v4 Compliance

Check out GreenScreen/Clean Production Action and GreenCircle Certified, LLC for a webinar on GreenScreen:  A Method to LEED v4 Compliance.  Speakers will include Dr. Lauren Heine, Director of the GreenScreen Program and Co-Director of Clean Production Action, and Annie Bevan, Certification and Operations Manager at GreenCircle Certified. Since USGBC released LEED v4, there has been a steep learning curve for both manufacturers and LEED Practitioners who are scrambling to keep current… …

The Business Case for Knowing Chemicals in Products and Supply Chains Webinar

Consumers, retailers and brands all want to know more, driving companies to disclose information about the hazardous chemicals in their products and to make safer choices.   Now a new report, The Business Case for Knowing Chemicals in Products and Supply Chains, highlights the benefits to companies when they invest in an "Active Strategy" for chemicals management, one in which they proactively manage the chemicals in their products and supply chains to stay ahead of regulatory and market… …