Greenlist Bulletin Archives: 2007 Issues
Greenlist 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. Big asbestos prosecution in jeopardy, U.S. argues
2. Understanding international crime trends: the legacy of preschool lead exposure
3. Spin-off to market green technology using waste paint
4. Fact Sheet: Securing Our Nation's Chemical Facilities
5. Climate change: a guide to the information and disinformation
6. Method to improve the strength of rubber, plastic products
7. Case studies in sustainability: from the fields through the supply chain to the shelf
8. Picnic perfect plastics
9. ISO 14001 certification and environmental performance in Quebec's pulp and paper industry
10. Hazardous chemicals crop up in unlikely people
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1. Health, safety, and ecological implications of using biobased floor-stripping products
2. New EU rules on chemicals industry enter into force; environmentalists say not enough
3. UMass Amherst scientists create fire-safe plastic
4. Current commentary: Energy Economics 101
5. Exposure of engineered nanoparticles to human lung epithelial cells: influence of chemical composition and catalytic activity on oxidative stress
6. Rohm & Haas boosts green R&D spending
7. Self-regulatory institutions for solving environmental problems: perspectives and contributions from the management literature
8. Keeping it green
9. State energy profiles: Massachusetts
10. Clean water, clean conscience
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1. Follow the "green" brick road?
2. Vapor degreasing with binary azeotropes
3. Medical surveillance for health care workers exposed to hazardous drugs
4. Green building and how it impacts cabling
5. Ranking cancer risks of organic hazardous air pollutants in the United States
6. Local governments reduce costs through pollution prevention
7. Little Green Data Book 2007
8. Looking for environmentally friendly paper? Here are some of your options
9. Environmental fate: industrial nanomaterials appear vulnerable to dispersal in natural environment
10. 'Inadequate' planning contributed to Formosa accident in Illinois
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1. Mapping the U.S. NanoMetro Economy
2. Engineer launches review of energy use in manufacturing
3. Drowning in Disinfection Byproducts? Assessing Swimming Pool Water
4. OPPT Accomplishments Report 2005-2006
5. Green matters
6. The nation's only professional wet cleaning 'green' dryers are eco-friendly
7. The role of environmental management system on introduction of new technologies in the metal and chemical/paper/plastics industries
8. Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water Causes Cancer in Lab Animals
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1. Environmentally friendly organic insulation uses mushroom spores
2. Toxic trains and the terrorist threat
3. Virtuous cycles
4. Reviewing the environmental and human health knowledge base of carbon nanotubes
5. Metabolix to develop sugarcane plastics
6. 31 states target global warming
7. Indoor air pollution takes heavy toll on health
8. New duplex fouling release coating system works without toxins
9. Towards a European Chemicals Information System: a survey on reported monitoring activities of chemicals in Europe
10. Brewing a sustainable energy solution
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1. Guide to the business case & benefits of sustainability purchasing
2. Governor Patrick announces new manufacturing plant for Evergreen Solar
3. Lab services uncovers possible answer to pet deaths
4. Common-sense critical cleaning
5. Temporal variability of tungsten and cobalt in Fallon, Nevada
6. Think small: you are entering the nano-zone
7. Ideal Bite
8. Creating markets for green biofuels: measuring and improving environmental performance
9. Natural lawn-care
10. Design Focus: Start at the beginning
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1. Green nanotechnology: it's easier than you think
2. Amendments to the air toxics standards for the halogenated solvent cleaning industry: fact sheet
3. Fantastic plastic
4. Not that innocent: a comparative analysis of Canadian, European Union and United States policies on industrial chemicals
5. The greening of an industry: managing energy demand, lowering costs
6. Tracking the chemicals in us
7. OSHA leaves worker safety in the hands of industry
8. Wood preservatives feel pressure
9. Carpet highs and whoas: are you walking on 120 chemicals?
10. An environmental management system implementation model for U.S. colleges and universities
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1. Green technologies: an innovation agenda for America
2. U.S. dairy farms rush to qualify as organic
3. Electronic displays that fit on clothing could power revolution in lighting
4. New methods and tools needed to measure exposure to airborne nanomaterials
5. Indoor air quality in a dentistry clinic
6. Creating a campus sustainability revolving loan fund: a guide for students
7. Toxic wastes and race at twenty: 1987-2007
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1. New chemistry improves flame retardant materials
2. Evaluation of genetic damage in Brazilian footwear-workers: biomarkers of exposure, effect and susceptibility
3. Researcher examines polymers created with poultry feathers
4. A world without waste
5. Certain chemicals come under fire for harming human health
6. Cells selectively absorb short nanotubes
7. Are bugs the pests, or humans? Organic lawns take hold
8. Export of toxic chemicals – A review of the case of uncontrolled electronic-waste recycling
9. Pesticide maker sees profit when others see risks
10. Living in a green world
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1. Fiduciary guide to toxic chemical risk
2. Scientists track remarkable "breathing" in nanoporous materials
3. Case Report: Potential Arsenic Toxicosis Secondary to Herbal Kelp Supplement
4. Greaseball Challenge 2007
5. PLA film coatings replacing thermoplastics
6. The Green Screen for Safer Chemicals: evaluating flame retardants for TV enclosures
7. Buildings can play a key role in combating climate change
8. Comparison of environmental impacts of two residential heating systems
9. The use of Six Sigma principles for successful RoHS implementation
10. Soy-based solvents and strippers yield aMAIZEing results
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1. A framework for responsible nanotechnology
2. A vocabulary for sustainable business
3. Development of interpretation keys for environmental product declarations
4. The dirty secret about clean cars
5. Plastic That Degrades In Seawater Could Be Boon For Cruise Industry
6. New Rule Designed To Protect Florida’s Water Quality
7. Soy-based product explored as non-toxic substitute for important but toxic reactive compound
8. National foes take aim on stiffer state chemical plant laws
9. Massachusetts -- Launching the Next Green Purchasing Revolution
10. Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) in the Environment
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1. Phthalates Now Linked to Fat, Related Health Risks
2. Nanotechnology and Life Cycle Assessment: A Systems Approach to Nanotechnology and the Environment
3. Herbal Herbicides
4. Dangerous Levels of Toxics Found in New Cars
5. AASHE Digest 2006: A Review of Campus Sustainability News
6. Mortality Risk Associated with Short-Term Exposure to Traffic Particles and Sulfates
7. Advanced Energy Technologies: Key Challenges to Their Development and Deployment
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