Advancing Green Chemistry

Advancing Green Chemistry's mission is to promote the development and adoption of Green Chemistry. Green Chemistry is the scientific foundation of greener products, a sustainable economy, and healthier people. AGC’s role is to strengthen and promote the science and its practitioners, to link to strategic partners, and to highlight emerging strategic opportunities for stakeholders. In short, AGC seeks to tip the balance in favor of broad support for – and wide adoption of – Green Chemistry.

American Chemistry Society Green Chemistry Institute
The mission of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® (ACS GCI) is to enable and catalyze the implementation of green chemistry and green engineering into all aspects of the global chemical enterprise.

Beyond Benign
Beyond Benign is a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable science in order to create an environmentally, socially and economically prosperous world.

Biomimicry Institute
The Biomimicry Institute is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and imitation of nature’s remarkably efficient designs, bringing together scientists, engineers, architects and innovators who can use those models to create sustainable technologies.

The Business NGO Working Group
The BizNGO Working Group mission is to promote the creation and adoption of safer chemicals and sustainable materials in a way that supports market transitions to a healthy economy, healthy environment, and
healthy people.

The Canadian Environmental Law Association
CELA works to protect human health and our environment by seeking justice for those harmed by pollution and by working to change policies to prevent such problems in the first place. For 40 years, CELA has used legal tools to increase environmental protection and safeguard communities. As a Legal Aid Clinic, our top priority is to represent low income individuals and communities and to speak out for those with less influence and who receive less of a say in decision-making.

The Canadian Green Chemistry Network
The Canadian chapter of The Green Chemistry Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to promote green chemistry to protect human health and the environment.

Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College
The Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College (C4S) is a student-run and faculty-directed organization providing a web-based clearinghouse of information for consumers, business people, non-profit organizations, students, and governmental agencies interested in sustainable practices. The Center is located at Aquinas College, the first institution in the United States to offer undergraduate degrees in sustainable business. In addition to collecting and disseminating information, the Center also conducts conferences and workshops, maintains an extensive list of publications on sustainability, and organizes the Campus Sustainability Initiative at Aquinas.

Clean Production Action and the GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals
CPA’s unique role is to translate the systems-based vision of clean production into the tools and strategies NGOs, governments and businesses need to advance green chemicals, sustainable materials and environmentally preferable products. Critical to CPA’s success is working closely with existing networks across the globe, developing new partnerships, learning about emerging technological trends and associated environmental health problems, and developing and communicating essential solutions. It is this combination of collaboration, empowerment and advocacy for a clearly defined vision that is key to achieving the fundamental transformations necessary in our economy.

U.S. EPA Design for the Environment
The U.S. EPA's Design for the Environment program helps consumers, businesses, and institutional buyers identify cleaning and other products that perform well, are cost-effective, and are safer for the environment.

The Ecology Center
The Ecology Center is a membership-based, nonprofit environmental organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded by community activists after the country's first Earth Day in 1970, the Ecology Center is now a regional leader that works for a safe and healthy environment where people live, work, and play.

Great Lakes United
Our members span a diverse spectrum of interests, organizations and individuals. We are citizens, environmentalists, conservationists, labour unions, First Nations, tribes, hunters, anglers, academics, and progressive business and industry. Together, we work to protecting the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem.

GreenCentre Canada
GreenCentre Canada brings leading Green Chemistry researchers, international industry partners and commercialization expertise under one roof with a common goal of advancing Green Chemistry innovations out of the lab and into the marketplace. Working together, we transform breakthroughs in Green Chemistry into green products and industrial technologies that benefit the world.  

Green Chemistry Center of Excellence at York University (UK)
The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the University of York is a world leading research centre which aims to promote the development and implementation of green and sustainable chemistry and related technologies into new products and processes.

The Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3)
The Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3) is a project of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  The GC3 was formed in 2005 following Sustainable Business and Safer Chemistry Through the Supply Chain: An the Innovators Roundtable hosted by the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. The GC3 provides an open forum for participants to discuss and share information and experiences relating to advancing green chemistry and design for environment as it pertains to sustainable supply chain management.

U.S. EPA Green Chemistry
The primary way that EPA promotes green chemistry is through the prestigious Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. EPA also supports green chemistry through projects and programs, including educational activities and research and development.

Greener Education Materials For Chemists (GEMS)
GEMs is an interactive collection of chemistry education materials focused on green chemistry.  The database is designed as a comprehensive resource of education materials including laboratory exercises, lecture materials, course syllabi and multimedia content that illustrate chemical concepts important for green chemistry. Each entry includes a description of the item and is searchable by a variety of parameters, including chemistry concepts, laboratory techniques, green chemistry principles, and target audience. Database entries incorporate both published and unpublished materials.

The Institute for Green Science
The Institute, led by Terry Collins, the Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry, has been established as a research, education and development center in which a holistic approach to green or sustainable chemistry is being developed, focused on pollution reduction. Research programs are evolving around the scientific and technological development of TAML® hydrogen peroxide activators, extensively patented and trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University.

Investor Environmental Health Network
The Investor Environmental Health Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers, advised by nongovernmental organizations, concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals policies. IEHN, through dialogue and shareholder resolutions, encourages companies to adopt policies to continually and systematically reduce and eliminate the toxic chemicals in their products. As of early 2008, IEHN members managed more than $41 billion in assets. IEHN staff are available to serve as information resources for companies.

iSustain  - Green Chemistry Index
The iSUSTAIN™ Green Chemistry Index is a tool which provides a methodology to generate a sustainability-based score for chemical products and processes. It contains a set of sustainability metrics based on the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry* and takes into account such factors as waste generation, energy usage, health and environmental impact of raw materials and products, safety of processing steps, and others.

Sustainable Research Group
The Sustainable Research Group (SRG) is an organization of experienced industry professionals dedicated to identifying, documenting, and improving business performance based on principles that are economically sound, environmentally healthy, and socially responsible.

Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
The Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry combines the expertise of talented and passionate scientists and engineers with the experience of an innovative and dynamic leadership team. We share a commitment to our clients, to society, and to the environment to create technologies and processes that are functional, cost-effective, and environmentally benign.