Greenlist Bulletin 2008 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. Choosing a new cleaning product based on environmental, health and safety issues
2. The benefits of energy and water audits
3. EcoPinion Survey, “Branding Green But Seeing Red,” Highlights Lack Of Consumer Awareness And Acceptance Of Green Brands
4. A turn to alternative chemicals
5. Beets: A Biodegradable Bonus for Earth-Friendly Plastics?
6. FDA relied on industry studies to judge safety
7. Nanotechnology: An insurer's perspective
8. GREENGUARD Expands into Certifying Computers & Electronics
9. Pulp friction
10. Recirculating air filtration significantly reduces exposure to airborne nanoparticles
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1. Dental offices contribute to methylmercury burden
2. The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review: Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks & Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change
3. Eco-friendly pyrotechnics
4. EPA needs to ensure that best practices and procedures are followed when making further changes to its library network
5. Health problems in Persian Gulf War veterans higher due to chemical exposure
6. Nanoparticles assemble themselves
7. The EnvironMinute
8. Does providing technical assistance for toxics use reduction really work? A program evaluation utilizing toxics use reduction act data to measure pollution prevention performance
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1. A decade of children's environmental health research: highlights from EPA's Science to Achieve Results program
2. Laser treatment transforms MDF producing startling image of rare wood grains
3. Rochester chosen for New York Pollution Prevention Institute
4. Do nanoparticles in food pose a health risk?
5. Report: Danvers factory had double amount of flammable chemicals
6. Greening of an industry: Cereplast signs sheet supplier agreement
7. Measurements of Sucralose in the Swedish screening program 2007: Part I; Sucralose in surface waters and STP samples
8. Popular 'green' products test positive for toxicant
9. Colourful idea sparks renewable electricity from paint
10. Homeland Security Committee urged to consider safer chemicals: Chemical companies should stop manufacturing extremely dangerous chemicals
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1. The toxic business of dry cleaning [podcast]
2. Presumption of safety: limits on federal policies on toxic substances in consumer products
3. Edge-retentive and solvent-free coating based on a renewable raw material
4. UNEP year book 2008: an overview of our changing environment
5. Scientists find mercury threatens next generation of loons
6. Virtual solutions to real-world problems: an eco tour of Second Life
7. Easing concerns about pollution from manufacture of solar cells
8. Scientists issue safety warning on cosmetic nanomaterials
9. Safe surface treatment
10. Mutual neglect: how the largest institutions in the stock market ignore health problems and financial threats stemming from toxic product liabilities
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1. Application of the Toxics Release Inventory to nanomaterials
2. When buildings talk, people listen
3. Halogenated volatile organic compounds from the use of chlorine-bleach-containing household products
4. Partial ban for paint strippers containing dichloromethane proposed
5. Off the hook: stronger soft-plastic fishing lure reels in raves
6. Airborne contaminants study released: measurable levels detected in twenty Western U.S. and Alaska National Parks
7. Greener extraction of one of nature’s whitest minerals
8. Increased risk of cancer in the offspring of female electronics workers
9. Campus greening: behind the headlines
10. Golden alternative
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1. Options for state chemicals policy reform: a resource guide
2. Formaldehyde levels in FEMA-supplied trailers
3. Nanotechnology lends a hand with 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics
4. Lead contamination of inexpensive plastic jewelry
5. Doing good: business and the sustainability challenge
6. Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2008
7. Paving the way for green roads
8. Community-Specific Chemical Release Data Available for Massachusetts; New England continues trend of lower releases to air, land and water
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1. Preservation of coatings with silver
2. Improving cleaning processes
3. The 'green' team
4. EU nanotechnology R & D in the field of health and environmental impact of nanoparticles
5. Scientists create environmentally friendly technology to produce commonly used compound
6. Baby care products: possible sources of infant phthalate exposure
7. More steps toward eco-friendliness: lead-free, halogen-free and energy efficiency
8. The A to Z of eco fashion
9. New sensor system improves detection of lead, heavy metals
10. Dark side of a hot biofuel
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1. Green autopia
2. XRF equipment as a RoHS screening tool
3. Research finds that 'green' products can still create problems
4. Policy report says chemical exposures cost California estimated $2.6 billion
5. The "greening" of barrier coatings
6. Are conventional protective devices such as fibrous filter media, respirator cartridges, protective clothing and gloves also efficient for nanoaerosols?
7. To pull a thorn from the side of the planet
8. Keep the sprays away? Home pesticides linked to childhood cancers
9. Over 90 campuses to pilot campus sustainability rating system
10. Hot liquids release potentially harmful chemicals in polycarbonate plastic bottles
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1. Massachusetts chemical fact sheet: Formaldehyde
2. State of green business 2008
3. Water repellent wood fiber products developed
4. Case study: one company's lead-free journey
5. Security, commerce suffer chemical imbalance
6. Increasing paper efficiency
7. FDA reports perchlorate widespread: millions of children at risk from exposure levels
8. Soy carpet backing delivers performance
9. Hold the mercury: how to avoid mercury when buying fish
10. Engineered nanoscale materials and derivative products: regulatory challenges
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1. The eco-patent commons
2. State health officials fault lack of federal action on waterproofing spray
3. Big cut for science of the small in Australia
4. Halogens and halides
5. Maine Governor receives final report on toxic chemicals
6. Biochip mimics the body to reveal toxicity of industrial compounds
7. Big firms invest in a greener China
8. Healthy, clean & green: a workers' action guide to a greener workplace
9. The master ROI table for office and building products
10. Risk assessment of engineered nanomaterials: a survey of industrial approaches
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1. Clean Tech: an agenda for a healthy economy
2. Green IT specs now required
3. Evaluation and control of occupational health risks from nanoparticles
4. University of Washington selects shared electric bicycle system from Intrago
5. New Jersey issues perc phaseout plan
6. The survival and long-term reliability of lead-free PCBs
7. Final Report: Green the Capitol Initiative
8. More flame retardants found in house dust
9. Environmentally friendly goods buzz at CES [podcast]
10. Bioengineering for pollution prevention through development of biobased materials and energy: state of the science report
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