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Making safer products for consumers brings leading companies to Ann Arbor

Representatives of more than 40 leading national and global companies will be meeting in Ann Arbor from May 9-11 to discuss how they can do more to reduce exposure to toxics and other chemical...

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“Green chemistry” signed into law

In the closing days of the last session, the Michigan legislature passed landmark "green chemistry" legislation, a long-standing policy priority of the Ecology Center. The bill was signed into...

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Greening Chemistry

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Green Chemistry Project

The Ecology Center helped create the nation’s first state-level Gubernatorial Green Chemistry Awards, and the first state-supported Green Chemistry Program. The program promotes research, development, demonstration, education and technology transfer to advance Green Chemistry in the state.

What's New?

The Ecology Center is part of a consortium of organizations helping to build the Michigan Green Chemistry Clearinghouse, a compendium of activity on Green Chemistry in Michigan.

In collaboration with the Clearinghouse, the Center publishes Catalyst, a quarterly newsletter on Green Chemistry activities for the general public.

Check out the
CATALYST: Green Chemistry in Action:

Volume 1 | Volume 2

Green Chemistry Webinars
The Clearinghouse offers free monthly public webinars on green chemistry topics.  You can learn more here.

Save the Date for Michigan's Premier Green Chemistry Conference The Green Chemistry Commitment, a pledge by academic institutions to teach Green Chemistry, will be launched this year at the 17th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in June in Washington DC.  If you are associated with an academic institution, please urge the institution to sign on!

Workshop: Safe Products, Made Safely: Tools for Businesses

May 30, 2013, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio
Full day workshop cost: $125
Co-sponsored by:
Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center at Ohio State University; University of Toledo School of Green Chemistry and Engineering Ohio EPA; Great Lakes Green Chemistry Network; Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
To register, click here

Next Generation Science Standards

Ecology Center staff along with the Michigan Green Chemistry Roundtable commented on the new science standards released in April. Michgan is one of 26 states that will adopt the standards that recognize our interdependence with nature!

Green Chemistry and Safer Materials Resources, see: http://migreenchemistry.org/public/public-resources-and-links/