Perkins+Will: Taking a Precautionary Approach to Chemicals in Products

At Perkins+Will we design structures that achieve our clients’ vision while maintaining the company’s founding principles of sustainability, integrity and design excellence. …

Novation: Supporting Safer Products in Health Care

Novation is committed to helping hospitals create an environment free from hazards posed by chemicals that are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment. Chemicals management is a considerable undertaking for the health care industry, largely… …

Kaiser Permanente: Using Safer Chemicals in Products Supports Preventive Health Care

Environmental activism emerged within Kaiser Permanente four decades ago when the organization invited Rachel Carson to deliver the keynote address to a large symposium of physicians and scientists. Today the 8.5 million member organization with… …

Healthy Business Strategies for Transforming the Toxic Chemical Economy

This report profiles six companies that are crafting healthy strategies for using chemicals and materials in their products.  While their individual actions to address toxic chemicals vary, their best practices, when gathered together define the… …

Brominated Flame Retardants in Dust on Computers

In 2004 the first nationwide tests for brominated flame retardants in dust swiped from computers  in public buildings in 8 US states, revealed that computers are likely to be a significant source of deca-BDE  and other brominated flame… …