After 21 years at Clean Production Action, Mark is stepping down from his role as Executive Director. Join us for drinks and hor d'oeuvres and help us celebrate Mark's next chapter! Please register below. And consider joining us for our 19th Annual BizNGO Annual Meeting, on Wednesday and Thursday, December 4 & 5, at The Nonprofit Center, 89 South Street, Boston, MA, from 9-5 pm. Agenda, registration and details. Clean Production Action is a 501(c)(3)… …
How GreenScreen Certified® Shifts Markets Toward Materials with Preferable Chemistry
Are you concerned that there might be harmful chemicals such as PFAS, BPA or styrene in your food packaging, containers or cookware and have been wondering how to identify products with environmentally preferable chemistry? Or are you a manufacturer or supplier in the food service industry that wants to showcase your commitment to a healthier and environmentally-friendly future? Join us for an informative and engaging webinar to learn about the recently released GreenScreen Certified®… …
Hear from Kaiser Permanente, NewGenSurgical, and Clean Production Action about the first-ever GreenScreen Certified® Standard for the health care sector, a new tool to enable hospital purchasers to screen out common equipment and supplies containing harmful chemicals. View the recording of this webinar to learn about: the certification criteria and how they were developed, the value of the certification to manufacturers and purchasers, and how you can get involved …
Hear from Clean Production Action, Kaiser Permanente, Maharam, and Glen Raven on the newly updated GreenScreen Certified® Standard for Furniture & Fabrics. Here you will learn what GreenScreen Certified® is and how it can be used by manufacturers and purchasers to meet sustainability goals! Join us to hear from manufacturers with certified products, especially PFAS-free fabrics, about the benefits of certification and the GreenScreen process. Facilitator: Mark Rossi, Clean Production… …
Clean Production Action, Apple, Clean Electronics Production Network, and TCO Development present on safer cleaners and degreasers in the electronics sector. Learn the details of GreenScreen Certified for Cleaners & Degreasers. Hear how Apple is integrating green chemistry into its supply chains. Find out how CEPN is scaling safer chemicals in the manufacturing of electronics. Learn how CPA and TCO Development collaborated on TCO Certified Accepted Substances List and the… …
DECEMBER 6
UC Berkeley Poster Session (December 6th at 5:00-6:30pm EST) Not just an academic exercise: Berkeley students collaborating with industry, NGOs and government to develop Greener Solutions Join us to learn about four exciting research projects to identify safer solutions to hazardous chemicals: 1. “Alternatives to polyethylene vacuum packaging for frozen foods” Partner: Noble Ocean Farms 2. “Compostable adhesives for produce PLU stickers (to… …
View an informative and engaging webinar on GreenScreen Certified®: PFAS-free and Preferred Food Service Ware. The groundbreaking certification program sets a new safety standard for everyday items like disposable plates and bowls that do not contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) plus thousands of other chemicals of concern. Learn from our speakers on how scaling safer products and cleaner technologies is not only possible but already happening. Learning objectives:… …
View presentations by and a discussion with Arlene Nuñez, Holly Davies, and Shari Franjevic on the value of PFAS-free firefighting foam and GreenScreen Certified®. Arlene Nuñez is an active firefighter with the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) and serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation (SFFCPF). Holly Davies is a Senior Toxicologist with the Washington State Department of Health. Shari Franjevic is the GreenScreen… …
On February 11th, Clean Production Action released the 5th Annual Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey report and hosted a webinar featuring results from the Survey. The webinar featured: Cheri Peele, CFP Program Manager at Clean Production Action (CPA)—presenting the results from the 5th annual CFP Survey Holly Testa, Director, Shareowner Engagement at First Affirmative Financial Network (FAFN)—discussing why investors like FAFN want companies to participate in the… …
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. …
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… …
This FREE GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals one-day introductory workshop will be held for the Washington State Department of Ecology and is open to the public. Limited spots are available. This day-long training will be of particular interest to business experts in supply chain management, materials selection, procurement, product and process design, environmental health and safety, sustainability, and regulatory affairs who need to select safer chemicals for their products. The… …
This GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals one day introductory workshop will be held in coordination with the University of Buffalo and the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute on June 4, 2014, at the Jacobs Executive Development Center in downtown Buffalo. This will be the final of six introductory workshops funded by US EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. This day-long training will be of particular interest to business experts in supply chain management,… …
To better understand the implications of the California Safer Consumer Product Regulations, BizNGO followed the regulations in performing two draft alternatives assessments. Helen Holder of Hewlett-Packard and Mark Rossi of Clean Production Action discuss: The steps in a California-compliant alternatives assessment. The challenges encountered and lessons learned. Helen Holder, Corporate Material Selection Manager for Hewlett-Packard, is responsible for identifying and incorporating… …
The Materials & Resource section of the U.S. Green Building Council’s new LEED v4 standard proposes dramatic changes in how building products are considered for incorporation into LEED projects. The focus has expanded from single-attribute qualities such as recycled content and rapidly renewable materials to include themes of transparency and optimization that are operationalized through ingredient disclosure, hazard screening, hazard reduction and product optimization.… …
Eden Brukman of the Health Product Declaration Collaborative, is a highly regarded instigator of actions for ecological accord. Since 1996, Eden has focused on establishing socially and environmentally responsible solutions for human habitat – particularly as it relates to the systemic reform of traditional resource flows and supply chain impacts of building materials. She is co-author of Living Building Challenge, and directed its evolution and global deployment from 2007-2012. Eden is a… …
