Greenlist Bulletin Archives: 2006 Issues
Greenlist(tm) Bulletin is a weekly online publication of the Toxics Use Reduction Institute Library at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, featuring abstracts of recent articles, books and Web sites related to pollution prevention, industrial production, sustainability, and toxics research.
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1. The Chemical Quality of Self-Supplied Domestic Well Water in the United States
2. Nanoparticles: Health Effects -- Pros and Cons
3. Exposure of Hairdressing Apprentices to Airborne Hazardous Substances
4. The Car and Fuel of the Future
5. Federal Biobased Products Preferred Procurement Program [Web Site]
6. Rising to the Challenge: Six Steps to Cut Global Warming Pollution in the United States
7. EU to Streamline Pesticide Authorization
8. The Green Line: Welcome to the World of Hazardous Waste Inventories
9. Ammunition is the Principal Source of Lead Accumulated by California Condors Re-Introduced to the Wild
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1. A Collaborative Approach to Reducing Mercury Air Emissions: The National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program
2. A community-based participatory research study of multifaceted in-home environmental interventions for pediatric asthmatics in public housing
3. Environmental Markets: Opportunities and Risks for Business
4. Rich Countires, Poor Water
5. New England Lead-Free Consortium Tests 68,000 Components
6. Hearing Loss in Workers Exposed to Toluene and Noise
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1. Greening the Bottom Line: California Companies Save Money by Reducing Global Warming Pollution
2. Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate
3. EPA Should Improve the Management of Its Air Toxics Program
4. Product Replacement: Reach Adds Pressure for Adoption of Safer Alternatives
5. Indoor Secondary Pollutants from Cleaning Product and Air Freshener Use in the Presence of Ozone
6. Hybrid Lighting Technology Gains Momentum in U.S.
7. Improved Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC) Web Site Makes It Easier for Growers, Researchers, and Gardeners to Find Information
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1. Printing the Electronic Future
2. Taking Stock 2003
3. Changing the Way We Color Our World: Dry Paint Film -- The "Green" Alternative to Paint Gains Momentum
4. National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency
5. Reporting in Context 2006: Global Corporate Responsibility Reporting Trends
6. Public Health Confronts the Mosquito: Developing Sustainable State and Local Mosquito Control Programs
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1. EPA Proposes Carbofuran Limits
2. CU-Boulder Team May Have Solved Mystery of Carcinogenic Mothballs
3. Aquatic Effects of Aerial Spraying for Mosquito Control over an Urban Area
4. When Crop Transgenes Wander in California, Should We Worry?
5. 2006 Pacific Sustainability Index Scores: Motor Vehicles and Parts Sector
6. The Effect of Providing On-site Technical Assistance for Toxics Use Reduction: A Program Evaluation Utilizing Toxics Use Reduction Act Data
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1. Five Chemicals Alternatives Assessment Study
2. Financial Institutions Announce Revision of Equator Principles Underscoring the Global Application of Environmental and Social Risk Management
3. Data Sets: Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S.
4. Study Supports 'Urgent' Need for Worldwide Ban on Lead-Based Paint
5. Nanotechnology Report Calls for New Government Risk Research Strategy & Funding
6. Evidence of Altered Brain Sexual Differentiation in Mice Exposed Perinatally to Low, Environmentally Relevant Levels of Bisphenol A
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1. Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health in North America: A Call for Efforts to Determine the Sources, Levels of Exposure, and Risks that Industrial Chemicals Pose to Children's Health
2. Revealed: What Mosquitoes Hate About Humans
3. ISO: Social Responsibility
4. Bottom up and top down: analysis of participatory processes for sustainability indicator identification as a pathway to community empowerment and sustainable environmental management
5. The Ones That Get Away: Particles of toxic lead solder elude detection in some water quality tests
6. Levi's(r) Brand Launches 100% Organic Cotton Jeans
7. Toxics Inventory to Begin Using New Business Classification System
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1. EU Ban on Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products Takes Effect
2. Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management
3. After the Scandals: Changing Relationships in Corporate Governance
4. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke
5. Researchers Create New Organic Gel Nanomaterials
6. EPA's Roadmap for Mercury
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1. Safer Detergent Chemistry Used in Ultrasonic Cleaning Eliminates Triple Acid Chemistry
2. The Science of Soy: What Do We Really Know?
3. Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility: A Fleishman-Hillard/National Consumers League Study
4. Carbon Value Analysis Tool (CVAT)
5. JohnsonDiversey Inc. Announces Product Development Plan to Remove APEOs
6. Examining the Evidence on Pesticide Exposure & Birth Defects in Farmworkers: An Annotated Bibliography, with Resources for Lay Readers
7. Trends in Sustainable Development
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1. Greening the Supply Chain: Small Business, Big Environmental Gains
2. 'Cloaked' Carbon Nanotubes Become Non-Toxic
3. Grants Management: EPA Has Made Progress in Grant Reforms but Needs to Address Weaknesses in Implementation and Accountability
4. Defining Organic Practices for Wine and Grapes
5. Indoor Air Chemistry: Cleaning Agents, Ozone and Toxic Air Contaminants
6. Choices Matter: 2005 Sustainability Report
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1. How Well Do Gloves and Respirators Block Nanoparticles?
2. Putting the Earth in Play: Environmental Awareness and Sport
3. Biotech Cotton Provides Same Yield with Fewer Pesticides
4. The Quality of Our Nation’s Waters: Volatile Organic Compounds in the Nation’s Ground Water and Drinking-Water Supply Wells
5. Asbestos Concerns Resurface: Brake Imports Using Fibers Surge, Imperiling Mechanics
6. Business Brief: Intangibles and CSR
7. Partitioning, Persistence, and Accumulation in Digested Sludge of the Topical Antiseptic Triclocarban during Wastewater Treatment
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1. 2006 Roberts Environmental Center Pacific Sustainability Index Scores: Electronics, Semiconductor, and Peripherals Sectors
2. Occupational pesticide intoxications among farmers in Bolivia: A cross-sectional study
3. Nanomaterials in the Workplace: Policy and Planning Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health
4. Studies Evaluate Health Effects of Dental Amalgam Fillings in Children
5. Low Dose Mercury Toxicity and Human Health
6. Drinking Water: EPA Should Strengthen Ongoing Efforts to Ensure That Consumers Are Protected from Lead Contamination
7. Water Saving in the Garden
8. Interaction of Fine Particles and Nanoparticles with Red Blood Cells Visualized with Advanced Microscopic Techniques
9. The path to biorefineries: More than making chemicals from crops, the effort today is on making chemicals from biomass
10. Harnessing Daylight For Energy Savings: Designing buildings properly and controlling glare and solar heat gain can cut energy bills by more than half
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