Past Events: 2011

2011 Green Chemistry & Commerce Council Innovators Roundtable
Hosted by HP in Cupertino, CA
May 4-5, 2011

 

Thank you to all sponsors of the 6th Annual GC3 Innovators Roundtable

 

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The following speaker presentations are available for download:

• GC3: Year in Perspective
• HP: Delivering Business Value with Sustainability
• Overview of Chemical Data Project Group
• Overview of University/Business Partnership and Pilot Project
• Overview of Retail Project Group
• Beyond Benign: Green Chemistry Education
• UC Berkeley Green Chemistry Extension: Advancing Green Chemistry Practices in Business
• ACS Green Chemistry Institute: Education Activities by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute
• Seagate: Seagate's Approach to Product Environmental Compliance
• Staples: Driving Safer Product Innovation Through Communication of Chemical Data in Supply Chains
• Seventh Generation: Confidential Business Information and Innovation
• The Dow Chemical Company: Science for a Sustainable World
• EPEAT/Green Electronics Council: Green Chemistry and Safer Materials in the Electronics Sector
• Kaiser Permanente: Collaborations for Safer Materials- Health Care Sector

 

Product Chemicals Management for Retailers: Moving Beyond Compliance Toward Safer, Less-Toxic Product Lines
Hosted by West Marine in Watsonville, CA
May 3, 2011

The Product Chemicals Management for Retailers Meeting was hosted by West Marine in Watsonville, CA, on May 3, 2011. This business to business event brought together over 40 proactive retailers and other stakeholders engaged in dialog about the challenges and solutions to safer chemicals management in the products they are selling, and explored the business case for why this is important.

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The following speaker presentations are available for download:

• San Francisco Department of the Environment: Retailer as Environmental Leader-Governmental Drivers
• Good Guide: A Call to Action-The Role of Retailers
• Patagonia
• Brown Wilmanns Environmental, LLC: Standards, Labels, Certifications, and Seals , An Overview
• Environmental Defense Fund: GreenWERCS- An Alternatives Assessment Approach to Chemical Intensive Products
• Recreational Equipment Inc.: ecoSensitive, The Eco Index, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Chemistry & Toxics, BPA amongst other things...
• Lowell Center for Sustainable Production: Product Chemicals Management Web Resource for Retailers