American Sustainable Business Council sponsors call
with LISA JACKSON

Join us on January 31st at 12:00PM EST for a conference call and discussion with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.
Date: 01/31/2012
Time: 12:00PM EST
Register: http://asbcouncil-epa-2012.eventbrite.com/
Participate: Send your questions for Administrator Jackson to Richard at reidlin@asbcouncil.org
BY FRIDAY JANUARY 27TH in order to be considered!

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Bioindustrial Innovation Centre
International Conference:
Bringing Bioproducts to Market: Overcoming Risks to Commercialization
March 26-28, 2012
Sarnia, ON
BICSarnia..ca

Online Course: Introduction to Green Chemistry
Recently the Institute for Green Science at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an online course focused on green chemistry. A beta version of the course, An Introduction to Green Chemistry, is now available free of charge.

By Beverley Thorpe

On July 10th CBC News released an exposé entitled: Some ‘green’ detergents still contain chemicals. The title of this article underscores all the confusion about how the public views chemicals and how we are now supposedly defining ‘green’ chemicals. The title is so blatantly misleading that I was surprised to read it. In reality ALL products contain chemicals, the human body contains chemicals, all materials on this earth contain chemicals. To imply that plant ingredients are not chemicals is a basic and unscientific misrepresentation and also a mischaracterization of what is green chemistry. So let’s review what green chemistry means.

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Beverly Thorpe is a member of the Great Lakes Green Chemistry Advisory Board and is Communications Director and Partner at Clean Production Action 

By JAMES CLARK,
Professor of Green Chemistry, York University (York, U.K.)

The past year was another good year for green chemistry events. I was lucky enough to attend excellent events in places as far apart as Brazil, China, France, India, Korea, and the U.S. While I was in Boston, I enjoyed the benefit of a personal tour of John Warner’s new facility, the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry. Being with John at two major events (CleanTech in Boston and the extremely impressive Industrial Green Chemistry World in Mumbai) I was reminded of the continued importance of his 12 Principles of Green Chemistry and how they continue to be meaningful after almost 20 years.

Read full article at  IHS Chemical Week

The Great Lakes Green Chemistry Student Network www.migreenchemistry.org click on the "Education" tab and then "Great Lakes Green Chemistry Student Network"   Watch for  "Ask An Expert" blog by Dr. Berkeley Cue of the Green Chemistry Institute's Pharmaceutical Roundtable up soon. Take the student survey atwww.glgc.org/glgcstudentsurvey   Your ideas and comments are always welcome!

Listen to our previous telephone seminars below:

"Commercialization of L-ketals: A New Bio-based Material Platform"
Cora Leibig
Recorded: March 16, 2011
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"Education & Green Chemistry: Integrating Fields of Science Into the Goals of Sustainabilty"
Terry Collins
Recorded: February 23, 2011
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"Green Chemistry & Sustainable Building"
Robin Guenther
Recorded: December 8, 2010
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"Green Engineering"
Julie Zimmerman
Recorded: November 17, 2010
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"Green Science Policy Institute" (excerpt)
Arlene Blum
Recorded: October 27, 2010
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"Recycle@Source: An Effective Alternative to End of the Pipe Treatment"
Nitesh H. Mehta
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Recorded: September 29, 2010

"Sustainable Innovation"
Paul Anastas
Recorded: August 5, 2010

"Green Chemistry at Hewlett-Packard"
Helen Holder
Recorded: July 7, 2010
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"Public Health and Chemical Exposure"
Ben Gerhardstein
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Recorded: May 12, 2010