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. Mayo Clinic Study Explores Link between Nanoparticles and Kidney Stones
2. Design for the Next Generation: Incorporating Cradle-to-Cradle Design into Herman Miller Products
3. Looking for Environmentally Friendly Paper? Here Are Some of Your Options
4. Strategy & Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility
5. EEB: End chlorine's use of mercury
6. Against the Public's Will: Summary of Responses to The Environmental Protection Agency's Plans to Cut Toxic Reporting
7. The 2006 Autodesk Green Index
8. Transfer of lead from shot pellets to game meat during cooking
9. 'Sustainability' Gains Status on US Campuses
10. Move Over WD40, There's a New Kid on the Block
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1. Environment Agency Invites Nanotechnology Talks
2. Business and Ecosystems: Ecosystem Challenges and Business Implications
3. Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer Re-visited
4. EPA Qualification Helps Cytec Market Eco-Friendly Products
5. Environment Matters at the World Bank: Good Governance and Environmental Management
6. Pure carbon nanotubes pass first in vivo test
7. Environmental justice and toxic exposure: Toward a spatial model of physical health and psychological well-being
8. Persistently Clean?
9. Water Use Reduction at an Auto Assembly Plant
10. Inquiry Turns To Humans On Pollutant, Hormone Tie
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1. Do Environmental Management Systems Improve Performance?
2. Green chemistry and the health implications of nanoparticles
3. Marine Antifouling Coatings Regulatory Issues Increase
4. Bioplastics are Fruitful and Multiply
5. Assessment of airborne asbestos exposure during the servicing and handling of automobile asbestos-containing gaskets
6. Toxic Toys: San Francisco Prepares to Ban Certain Chemicals in Products for Kids, but Enforcement Will Be Tough -- and Toymakers Question Necessity
7. Environmental assessment of building properties—Where natural and social sciences meet: The case of EcoEffect
8. Skin Exposure to Isocyanates: Reason for Concern
9. EPA Announces It Will Regulate Silver Nanoparticle Technology
10. A Zero Waste UK
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1. Eco-Labels: The Consumers Union Guide to Environmental Labels
2. Implications of research on endocrine disruption for the environmental risk assessment, regulation and monitoring of chemicals in the European Union
3. Kinking Out the Iron
4. Hospitals clean out allergy, asthma triggers
5. Process Turns Soy Oil Into Hydrogen
6. Causes of Variability in Concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Indoor Air
7. Unfamiliar Exposure
8. 2006 Automotive Plastics Report Card: The Policies and Practices of Eight Leading Automakers
9. Promoting Green Purchasing: Tools and Resources to Quantify the Benefits of Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
10. Salt Lake District Schools Cut Pesticide Use, Find Fewer Pests
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1. Are There Other Persistent Organic Pollutants? A Challenge for Environmental Chemists
2. Iowa State researchers improving plastics made from corn and soy proteins
3. Going Green Ain't Easy: Chemical Firms Gauge Payback
4. The Lousebuster Kills
5. Eco-advocate puts Martha to shame
6. Sequestered Science: The Consequences of Undisclosed Knowledge [theme issue]
7. Carpets in workplace linked to adult asthma risk
8. A Silent Pandemic: Industrial Chemicals Are Impairing the Brain
9. Dried Plums Act as Antioxidant in Some Meats
10. Inferring Past Pesticide Exposures: A Matrix of Individual Active Ingredients in Home and Garden Pesticides Used in Past Decades
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1. Drop-In Alternatives to Trichloroethylene
2. Reach: Panel Votes to Mandate Product Substitution
3. Google to Convert HQ to Solar Power
4. A Bold Little Wine That’s Less Polluting
5. An Intervention to Reduce Residential Insecticide Exposure during Pregnancy among an Inner-City Cohort
6. Lebanon sees revival of pre-Islamic environmentalism
7. Going Green
8. Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change
9. Chemicals Management May Be Getting Tougher
10. Research Helps Industry Make Stronger, Lighter and Cheaper Alloys
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1. Risks to Asthma Posed by Indoor Health Care Environments: A Guide to Identifying and Reducing Problematic Exposures
2. Sweetening up Plastics
3. Green chemistry for sustainable cement production and use
4. Chromatics to discontinue production of heavy metal-based colorants
5. Oregon Readies Online Pesticide System
6. 'Green' Roof Shows Its Stuff
7. Toxic Waste Overseas Opens Eyes
8. Review of Safety Practices in the Nanotechnology Industry. Phase One Report: Current Knowledge and Practices Regarding Environmental Health and Safety in the Nanotechnology Workplace
9. Di-(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate Enhances Atopic Dermatitis-Like Skin Lesions in Mice
10. Communicating Risk-Risk to the Public: The Case of the Health Benefits and Risks from Eating Seafood
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1. Cosmetic Firms Nail DBP
2. Carnegie Mellon Scientists Use "Green" Approach To Transform Plastics Manufacturing Process
3. Mortality among US employees of a large computer manufacturing company: 1969-2001
4. Nanotechnology Is Extending the Range of Additive and Polymer Performance
5. Hispanics Show Growing Clout in Environmental Debate
6. Antique Whale Oil Provides Insights to Origin of Pre-Industrial Chemicals
7. The Pollution Within
8. Organic Foods
9. 145 Businesses, Groups Issue Sustainable Energy Blueprint
10. Exposures to Environmental Toxicants and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in US Children
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1. Lean production and EMSs: Aligning environmental management with business priorities
2. Flame Retardants Feel the Heat
3. Organic Lawn Care 101- Take Simple Steps This Fall to Convert Your Lawn to Organic
4. GE Develops 'Eco-Friendly' Plastics
5. One Proxy at a Time: Pursuing Social Change through Shareholder Proposals
6. Pesticide Measurements from the First National Environmental Health Survey of Child Care Centers Using a Multi-Residue GC/MS Analysis Method
7. Poisoning Wildlife: The Reality of Mercury Pollution
8. Wal-Mart to Review All Products That Contain a Chemical
9. Ethical and Scientific Issues of Nanotechnology in the Workplace
10. Breast cancer risk and drinking water contaminated by wastewater: a case control study
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1. Three Members Of EPA Chemicals Advisory Panel Resign
2. Making Pure Hydrogen from Biomass
3. Pesticide Exposure Could Increase Risk of Early Onset of Parkinson's Disease
4. PBT with nano-additive earns eco-efficiency label
5. Chain of Contamination: The Food Link
6. Expanded Expert Judgment Assessment of the Concentration-Response Relationship Between PM2.5 Exposure and Mortality
7. Environmental Test Facility Improves Indoor Air
8. Anion effects on the cytotoxicity of ionic liquids
9. Factors affecting consumer assessment of eco-labeled vehicles
10. Benzene Concern Froths in Beverages
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1. Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Food Production: Anticipated Applications
2. Africa Said Most at Risk to Ill-Regulated Toxics
3. Pollution Prevention Produces Results: Waste Reductions, Resource Conservation, and Cost Savings
4. Ozone-Initiated Secondary Emission Rates of Aldehydes from Indoor Surfaces in Four Homes
5. EPA Is Properly Addressing the Risks of Using Mercury in Rituals
6. Zero-Waste Publishing
7. Environmental accounting: A management tool for enhancing corporate environmental and economic performance
8. Building the Green Way
9. Volatile Organic Compounds and Pulmonary Function in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994
10. Bio-based products resin-ate
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1. Residential Green Building Guide: A Web Source Book for New England
2. Particulate Soiling Properties of Cellulosic Fabrics DP-Finished with Polycarboxylic Acids
3. Boutique Biofuels
4. U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment
5. Distribution and transportability of hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) in the Asia-Pacific region using skipjack tuna as a bioindicator
6. Nanotube Ink: Desktop Printing of Carbon Nanotube Patterns
7. Waste Opportunities
8. Environmental Innovation: A Dialogue on the Role of Government, Law and Regulatory Approaches
9. Study Shows Solvents Damaged Workers' Brains
10. Healthy Business Strategies for Transforming the Toxic Chemical Economy
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