By Laura Hoch and Melanie Mastronardi, PhD Students at the University of Toronto    

In the fall of 2012, we founded the Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI), a student group dedicated to raising awareness about green chemistry, in order to promote sustainabl

Innovation has always been the lifeblood of green chemistry; without innovation green chemistry could not possibly thrive let alone advance. Some green brands may be able to rely heavily on their “enviro-cred”—catering to the small percentage of “dark gre

By Babette Pettersen, Chief Commercial Officer, BioAmber

Reducing our dependence on fossil fuels is a major environmental goal driving companies to invest in cleaner, greener technology and to produce more sustainable products. BioAmber, a US-based sustain

By Daniel Teitelbaum

Pollution Prevention Staff Lead, Toxic Release Inventory Program, US EPA

Last January, EPA released a new pollution prevention (P2) search tool to help bring attention to the thousands of P2 achievements that companies report to the Tox

Pharmaceutical Roundtable request help filling data gaps in their solvent selection guide.

The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Solvent Selection Guide is based on an evaluation of a number of endpoints including safety, health, and environmental properti

By Svetlana Dimovski

Manager Innovation and Science Relations, BASF NA

As the world’s leading chemical company, BASF is well positioned for outreach & development to work with world class innovators and companies across the United States as well as many oth

By www.launch.org

At LAUNCH we see a future where the making of things has a positive impact on human prosperity and planetary sustainability.

An Invitation for Innovators: Summary

Founding partners NASA, NIKE, the US Agency for International Development (US

How do you get people to change their habits and adopt more environmentally friendly practices? Well, one biotechnology company in the San Francisco bay area, Genentech, seems to have found the answer. By combining the leadership of a few forward-looking

By John Adams, Marketing and Business Development, BASF Corporation and Orkun Onur, Marketing Manager, Mermet Corporation

Increasing greenhouse gas emissions are among one of the main contributors to global climate change. As the world’s population continu

By Daniel Teitelbaum, Pollution Prevention Staff Lead, Toxic Release Inventory Program, US EPA

Since its inception in 1986, EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program has embodied the principle that information can lead to improved environmental outcomes

By Phllip Jessop, Ph.D., Technical Director, GreenCentre Canada

More and more green chemistry technologies are being invented at the chemistry and chemical engineering departments of universities, but far too few of those technologies actually make it to m

“What we really need is a biological alternative to industry.” This was the comment that Stephen del Cardayre remembers Berkeley Professor Joe Neilands making to him one day over lunch many years ago. Although he can’t remember the exact quote, the idea s