Mike Schade of Mind the Store brings the NGO to BizNGO-Chemical Footprint 2015!

Join us in Boston, Dec. 8-9 @ the JFK Library! Mike Schade spearheads the Mind the Store campaign for Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, which aims to work with the nation's leading retailers on creating comprehensive chemicals policies.… …

GreenScreen® in International Electronics Sustainability Standard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 11, 2015 CONTACT: Shayna Samuels, 718-541-4785, shayna@ripplestrategies.com New Global Standard for Decreasing Toxic Chemicals in Electronics Released Today GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals Announced as Method to… …

Mark Rossi talks 2015 BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Project Conference

Register for the conference here! Dr. Mark Rossi founded the BizNGO Working Group for Safer Chemicals & Sustainable Materials 10 years ago. Below he discusses what prompted this massive undertaking, what accomplishments have been… …

California Regulations & Alternatives Assessment - New Report & Webinar Today

Also, it's time to register for the BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference! Join us in Boston on December 8 & 9. Webinar TODAY! Safer Alternatives to Methylene Chloride in Paint Strippers Join us for… …

GreenBiz Blog: So long toxics: A builder’s guide to safer chemicals

Excerpt from the GreenBiz article: Health experts long have recognized the risks of individual and groups of toxic chemicals in building products, beginning with lead and asbestos and continuing to formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds, mercury,… …

Upcoming Events and More

BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference, Dec. 8-9, 2015, Boston UN Our Planet magazine features Mark Rossi Chemical Footprint Project assessment tool open for use until Nov. 30, 2015 Methylene Chloride Alternatives Assessment Webinar, Oct. 27,… …

Q & A With Bart Sights

Bart Sights is the Sr. Director of the Global Development Network at Levi Strauss & Co. and keynote speaker at the upcoming BizNGO-Chemical Footprint Conference, December 8-9, 2015 in Boston.  Levi Strauss & Co. was one of the first… …

Job Opportunities, Save the Date, and Mark Rossi in the Boston Globe

Job Announcements Clean Production Action is now hiring for two new positions:   GreenScreen® Program Manager: We are looking for a technically and scientifically skilled individual to fill the position of managing our GreenScreen… …

Five things you should know about Mark Rossi

Mark Rossi’s life mission is to advance safer alternatives to toxic chemicals. In 2006, Rossi founded BizNGO, a collaboration of more than 500 business, environmental, and government leaders. After codirecting the Clean Production… …

GreenBiz Blog: The $1.1 trillion question: What’s your chemical footprint?

Look no further than the financial and reputational travails of Lumber Liquidators for a stark example of the risks companies are exposed to when they have toxic chemicals in their products and supply chains. From February to May, the stock price of… …