BIZNGO 2026 Annual Meeting Cancelled

December 2–3, 2026 Cambridge, Massachusetts Dear Friends of Clean Production Action and the BizNGO Community, We are writing to share that CPA has made the difficult decision not to hold the BizNGO Annual Meeting in 2026. This decision was made… …

Chemicals of Concern List Development

Developing an RSL, MRSL, or Chemicals of Concern List: Questions for Consideration by Manufacturers, Brands & Retailers

This diagram is intended as a description of company processes; it is not intended to be prescriptive. Companies may choose multiple responses for each question posed. …

BizNGO 2024 - 19th Annual Meeting

Scaling Safer Solutions

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BizNGO 2023 Annual Meeting

Setting Bold Chemical Footprint Goals

Outcomes Chemical Footprint: defined chemicals of high concern and learned how to set goals and measure progress in chemical footprint reductions. Environmental Justice (EJ): gained skills on how to integrate EJ into business policies and practices,… …

2022 Annual Meeting

CPA and CEH join forces to host BizNGO 2022

Clean Production Action (CPA) welcomes the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) as a co-host of BizNGO’s 17th Annual Meeting on December 6-7, 2022. Together, our two organizations hosted the annual meeting and solicit sponsorships. Our goal is… …

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… …

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… …

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… …

Chemical Ingredient Transparency In Products: Review of Existing Public Policies & An Industry Standard

Learn the different types of chemical ingredient disclosure policies as well as their requirements. Read the report written by the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA) Interstate Chemicals Clearinghouse (IC2) and Clean… …

Announcing new ASBC-BizNGO partnership on Safer Chemicals Public Policy Work Group

Since its founding in 2006, Clean Production Action’s BizNGO, a collaboration of forward-leading business people and the NGO community, has sought to inform and influence federal and state chemicals legislation and regulation.… …

US GAO Chemical Innovation Report

Technologies for Making Products and Processes More Sustainable. …

TEDx: Changing the Course of Production Together

Watch our very own Mark Rossi discuss what can happen when business leaders and environmental activists work together at the TEDxOrcasIsland event. …

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… …

BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference 2015 Selected Speaker Interviews

Check out these selected speaker interviews from the 2015 BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference! Nicole Koharik Nicole Koharik, serves as the global sustainability marketing director for GOJO Industries, a global leader in… …

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,… …

BizNGO 2014 Conference - 9th Annual Meeting

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

NAS: A Framework to Guide Selection of Chemical Alternatives

The National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine released a guide for avoiding regrettable subsitutions to toxic chemicals in 2014. …

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. …