Webinar: Safer Solutions to PFAS and Toxic Solvent Use in Batteries

Accelerating More Sustainable EV Battery Design Processes from Molecules to Neighborhoods

As the global transition to electric mobility accelerates, the world faces a defining question: can we build a battery-powered future that is not only low-carbon, but also low-toxic, equitable, and regenerative? In this webinar, the Collaboratory for… …

CPA Turns 20 Celebration

Join us for a party!

Join us for drinks & hors d'oeuvres at The Nonprofit Center, 89 South St, Boston, on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 from 5:30-8:00 pm as we celebrate 20 years of Clean Production Action!  We can't wait to see you!  The event is FREE,… …

BizNGO 2021 Annual Meeting

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… …

Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure Webinar

Clean Production Action (CPA) and the Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2) hosted a discussion on July 14th at 3:00-4:00pm EDT of the just released Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure.

Over 100 businesses, governments, health care organizations, investors, and non-governmental organizations have endorsed the six Principles. Learn: What are the Principles for Chemical Ingredient Disclosure. Why organizations developed and endorsed… …

GreenScreen Certified® Firefighting Foam v2.1 Webinar

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… …

CFP 2020 Report Webinar

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… …

BizNGO Annual Conference 2020

2020 is Virtual

15th Annual BizNGO Meeting to share, engage and act with other businesses and NGOs committed to embarking on the journey to safer chemicals. This year BizNGO adapted to ever-present threat of COVID-19 by hosting this conference online!  Agenda… …

Newsletter: November 25, 2020

GreenScreen trainings open for registration

Learn all the elements of hazard assessment as defined by GreenScreen. Start with Advanced Topics and progress to being a Practitioner. If you are new to GreenScreen, check out the Introductory Course.   Register for Advanced… …

Charting a Path to PFAS Solutions in Food Service Ware & Packaging

Charting a Path --an initiative of the Center for Environmental Health, BizNGO (a Program of Clean Production Action), San Francisco Department of the Environment, and the Cancer Free Economy Network-- is an informal,… …

BizNGO Webinar: Sustaining a Chemical Knowledge Commons

A presentation by and discussion with Dr. Akos Kokai on, "Sustaining a chemical knowledge commons."

Akos will present his research and findings from studying the safer chemical substitution knowledge landscape. Thinking about chemical knowledge as a “commons” opens up a range of possibilities for better understanding the… …

Webinar: Chemical Ingredient Transparency in Products

State governments, who are at the frontline of fighting COVID-19, are also at the frontline of requiring businesses to disclose chemical ingredients in their products to consumers and public agencies. From California to New York consumers are… …

Newsletter January 7, 2020

Upcoming Chemical Footprint & GreenScreen Webinars

We are starting the new decade full speed ahead with a deep dive into the Chemical Footprint Project and GreenScreen. Join us for any of the following webinars:  The 2019 Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) Survey Results, January… …

Webinar: WNY Clean Production Leaders

During this webinar you will be introduced to case studies and one of a kind tools and resources for managing & reducing chemicals, identifying substitutes and implementing replacements.  This webinar is ideal for everyone interested in… …

Webinar: Regenerative Product Systems

This webinar was hosted by Seventh Generation’s Director of Sustainability & Authenticity, Martin Wolf, along with presentations from Arlan Peters, Head of Sustainability at Novozymes; and Tim Greiner, Co-founder and Managing Director… …

Webinar: ECHA on GreenScreen

During this webinar, Clean Production Action and the European Chemicals Agency partnered to discuss the value of GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals from the perspective of a government agency, a business, and application in the European contextWe… …

Training: Setting Goals and Measuring Chemical Footprints

Learn how to measure current chemical footprint and progress to sustainability goals, based on case studies from leading practitioners The Chemical Footprint Project is a new initiative to measure and report on progress to safer chemicals… …

Webinar: How to purchase PFAS-free food service ware

Manufacturers of disposable food packaging and food service ware often add PFAS to impart moisture, oil, and grease resistance. PFAS are highly persistent, ubiquitous, and can migrate into food from packaging and food service ware. Upon… …

Training: Managing the Chaos of Chemical Lists

Learn how to effectively use chemical lists to proactively avoid known chemicals of high concern to human health or the environment Organizations of many kinds are creating lists of chemicals of concern and related restrictions, from regulatory… …

Training: Designing a Chemicals Management Policy

Learn how to write or update a comprehensive chemicals and materials management policy that goes beyond regulatory compliance Companies increasingly realize they need to go beyond regulatory requirements to keep abreast of consumer demands for safer… …

Webinar: One Stop Shop for info on chemical hazards: The Data Commons

Tired of searching for hazard information on chemicals? Frustrated with reconciling divergent Red Lists? The Chemical Hazard Data Commons makes it easy to find, compare, and monitor chemical hazard information from dozens of sources around the… …

Webinar: What is the Chemical Footprint of Health Care

A new report released by Clean Production Action provides the first ever chemical footprint of products commonly used in pediatric patient rooms. Hazardous chemicals in products are catalyzing health care organizations to ask suppliers whether or not… …

Webinar: What is the Chemical Footprint of Health Care Products?

A new report released by Clean Production Action provides the first ever chemical footprint of products commonly used in pediatric patient rooms. Hazardous chemicals in products are catalyzing health care organizations to ask suppliers whether or not… …

Chemical Footprint Project Workshop 2017

Be a leader in proactive chemicals management. Join us in Boston to learn how to: Reduce business risks related to chemicals, Measure progress in using safer chemicals, and Strengthen engagement with your supply chain.   Agenda 8:00 Breakfast… …

Webinar: GreenScreen Certified® How-To

Listen as Mark Rossi & Shari Franjevic of CPA explain how your organization can get its chemical formulations GreenScreen Certified®. …

Webinar: GreenScreen Certified® - New for textile chemicals

Listen as CPA and Garmon Chemicals dive into the newly launched GreenScreen Certified Standard for Textile Chemicals providing an overview on the certification process.   …

Webinar: How top companies are using GreenScreen 2

Find out how GOJO, Valspar, and Roxul are using GreenScreen to minimize business risk related to chemicals and get ahead of customer demands and regulations.  In this webinar you will learn how and why these proactive companies selected… …

Webinar: How top companies are using GreenScreen 1

Find out how HP, Inc. and Steelcase are using GreenScreen to minimize business risk related to chemicals and get ahead of customer demands and regulations.  In this webinar you will learn how and why these proactive companies selected… …

Webinar: Who’s Minding the Store?

The Mind the Store campaign recently released, "Who's Minding the Store?  A Report Card on Retailer Actions to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals", the first major evaluation of the United States’ largest retailers’ safer chemicals… …

Webinar: Chemical Transparency: The Value of Ingredient Disclosure

There is paramount need for optimizing design and manufacturing that will result in healthier materials and products.  Chemical transparency throughout supply chains is a critical link to realizing this change. Our… …

Chemical Footprint Project Workshop

Are you seeking to be a leader in proactive chemicals management? Learn how to: Reduce business risks related to chemicals, Measure progress in using safer chemicals, and Strengthen engagement with your supply chain.   The Chemical… …

Webinar: Participate in the 2016 Chemical Footprint Project Survey

Join leading businesses participating in the 2nd annual CFP Survey. Investors with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management and purchasers with over $70 billion in purchasing power want to know the CFP score of companies. CFP provides a standard… …

GreenScreen® for Advocates

On July 12th and 14th, Clean Production Action held two GreenScreen webinars exclusively for advocates. The two-part series explains both the GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals method and how advocates are using GreenScreen in their campaigns.… …

Webinar: In Depth-Chemical Footprint Project 2016 Annual Report

List to the co-authors give a detailed look at the results of the Chemical Footprint 2016 Annual Report, the first initiative of its kind to publicly benchmark corporate chemicals management. You will learn: about the chemical financial risks of… …

Webinar: The Chemical Footprint Project 2016 Annual Report

Learn how investors, brands, and purchasers gain value from the Chemical Footprint Project and hear about the results of the first annual survey. Speakers: Mark Rossi, Clean Production Action Nicole Koharik, GOJO Industries Sr. Mary Ellen… …

Webinar: BPA Is Still in Food Can Linings - The Long and Winding Road to Safer Alternatives

A new report, Buyer Beware: Toxic BPA and Regrettable Substitutes Found in the Linings of Canned Food  found 67% of nearly 200 food can linings from dozens of brands and retailers tested positive for the toxic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA). … …

Webinar: Dive into GreenScreen® List Translator

Are you interested in learning more about the GreenScreen® List Translator? In conjunction with the release of GreenScreen Hazard Assessment Guidance v1.3, Clean Production Action is teaming up with the Healthy Building Network for an informative… …

Chemical Footprint Project-why business actors recommend it

Representatives from ChemSec, CPA, and the business sector explain how the Chemical Footprint Project provides: Access to a system for evaluating, measuring, and communicating corporate chemicals management performance. Acces to a Toolkit… …

Webinar: Chemicals Without Harm

Listen to Ken Geiser as he introduces his book “Chemicals Without Harm” where he proposes a different strategy to the conventional approach to hazardous chemicals. His method is based on developing and adopting safer… …

Webinar: GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals Practitioner Program 2016

Are you interested in becoming a change agent in your organization? The GreenScreen Practitioner program provides in-depth training on use and application of GreenScreen® For Safer Chemicals to drive innovation… …

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… …

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,… …

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… …

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… …

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… …

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… …

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… …

Chemical Footprint Project Webinar

The Chemical Footprint Project was founded by the environmental non-profit Clean Production Action, the research institute The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the sustainability consultancy Pure… …

The Business Case for Knowing Chemicals in Products & Supply Chains

This webinar looked at the use of CiP information systems and the value of knowing about chemicals contained in products. These systems continue to enable and stimulate companies and entire product sectors to realise benefits, from achieving product… …

BizNGO 2014 Conference - 9th Annual Meeting

From chemical footprinting to alternatives assessment, BizNGO 2014 shaped the direction of engaging initiatives advancing safer chemicals.     …

NAS Alternatives Assessment Framework

Concerns about the health and environmental impacts associated with some chemical products and processes have motivated a growing number of national, state, and local governments, manufacturers, and retailers to develop assessments and approaches for… …

GreenScreen Standard Introductory Course

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… …

In case you missed the first webinar: What’s the Chemical Footprint of Plastics? Plastics Scorecard v1.0

Would you like to: Understand the deep connections between fossil fuels, chemicals, and plastics?   Know how to measure Progress to Safer Chemicals in Polymer Manufacturing? Know how to measure the Chemical Footprint of a Plastic Product? The… …

What’s the Chemical Footprint of Plastics? Plastics Scorecard v1.0

Would you like to: Understand the deep connections between fossil fuels, chemicals, and plastics?   Know how to measure Progress to Safer Chemicals in Polymer Manufacturing? Know how to measure the Chemical Footprint of a Plastic Product? The… …

GreenScreen Introductory Training

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… …

Safer Sanitizers & Disinfectants: A Look at San Francisco’s Latest Alternatives Assessment Webinar

Chris Geiger of SF Environment dug into the method and findings of San Francisco's recent report, "Safer Products and Practices for Disinfecting Surfaces". He provided an overview of the health and environmental risks of sanitizers and… …

California Safer Product Regulations & Alternatives Assessment

California Safer Consumer Product Regulations Webinar with Helen Holder

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… …

How to Find Safer Alternatives to Chemicals of Concern Webinar

Alex Stone, Sc.D., is a senior chemist at the Washington State Department of Ecology.  Dr. Stone has a B.S. in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy New York, an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science from the University… …

Safer Chemicals in Building Products: How to Get LEED Credit! Webinar

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… …

The Health Product Declaration Webinar

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 –… …

Children’s Safe Product Act Webinar

Joshua Grice, Toxics Research Analyst for the Washington State Department of Ecology, discusses recent findings on chemicals found in a variety of children's products. …

Safe Products, Made Safely: Tools for Businesses Webinar

Mark Rossi, Co-Director of Clean Production Action and Co-Chair of BizNGO discusses the BizNGO Guide to Safer Chemicals. …

BioSpecs and Guidelines for Sustainable Plastics

Criteria for Sustainable Biomaterials: Focus on the Specifications for Compostable Foodservice Ware   Brenda Platt, SBC Co-Chair Institute for Local Self-Reliance Webinar for BizNGO Working Group   …

BizNGO 2012 Conference - 7th Annual Meeting

Meeting Presentations are available from the Annual Meeting. …

Managing Chemical Ingredient Disclosure Across the Supply Chain

Presentations include: Daniel Paska, Sony Ericsson - Sony Ericsson – Managing Substances in products Brian Martin, Seagate Technology - Seagate’s Full Disclosure Requirement for Suppliers …