The Rachel Carson Legacy Conference: “Green Chemistry: Solutions for a Healthy Economy,” on September 20, 2008 at Duquesne University’s Powers Conference Center, will address the underlying need to design the toxicity and hazardous component out of consumer products and the processes that make them. It is not only healthy for us and for the world we depend on, but it makes good business sense too. The conference will address:
- Environment & Health Connections
- Innovations in Products and Processes
- Design for Non-Toxic Results
- Business Strategies: Risk, Investment and Insurance
This conference draws together 15 outstanding speakers including Dr. Paul Anastas, the founder of the principles of green chemistry, Dr. Terry Collins, Thomas Lord Professor of Green Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh recipients of the EPA Green Chemistry Awards, and entrepreneurial companies who are using green chemistry to solve problems. Also featured are Dr. Ruth Etzel and Dr. Bruce Lanphear who will address the epidemiology and the pediatric implications of significant environmental contaminants, with an emphasis on how designing them out of the system can improve the prognosis. Act 48 credit will be available for teachers.
Interactive Workshops Include:
- Health Impact of chemicals in the environment
- Students Sustainability initiative
- Teaching green chemistry –high school
- The green chemistry curriculum for training chemists and engineers
- Institutional barriers to green chemistry in the mainstream
- Doing business under the European R.E.A.C.H. standards
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