RCHA Green Chemistry Roundtable - Preventing Pollution By Design
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 – The first of our Green Chemistry Roundtables for 2010. In collaboration with Champions for Sustainability (Sustainable Pittsburgh), the RCHA will hold a series of roundtables that will convene leaders in the growing field of Green Chemistry to highlight the opportunities and challenges facing our region - and our country.
Our guest speaker for the first roundtable in January was John R. Ehrenfeld, author of Sustainability By Design. Click here for a summary of his talk.
Upcoming titles for our series of roundtables include:
- POLICY ISSUES and reform of the TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT - An Oxford Formal Debate - (March 18, 2010 @ the New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, PA)
- GREEN PRODUCTS: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES (May 2010)
- RECLAIMED AND REPROCESSED PRODUCTS (July 2010)
Registration and locations for these three events will be posted soon.
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Healthy Choices Workshop: We Are What We Eat
February 24 - 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Science Center – Learn about options and choices to improve health, support a healthier environment and to save money!
We are all exposed to a complex "stew" of man-made chemicals in our water, in our food, in the air, and in personal care products. The accumulation of more than 40 years of environmental pollution by some contaminants draws our attention to the unintended health consequences of the synthetic materials we use every day. This series of Healthy Choices Workshops will look at the science and provide you with solutions to making healthier decisions in your choice of personal care products, performing home and garden maintenance, reducing contaminants in your food and water. Knowledge is power. Becoming better informed about the products you purchase will help to drive safer products to the marketplace.
Our expert speakers include:
Maryann Donovan, Ph.D., MPH, Director (Interim), UPCI Center for Environmental Oncology
Judith Focareta RN, MEd, Coordinator Environmental Health Initiatives, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC
Patricia DeMarco, Ph.D., Executive Director, Rachel Carson Homestead Association
Moderator: Bill Couzens, advisor to the Center for Environmental Oncology; Founder of Less Cancer Campaign and Next Generation Choices Foundation
Audience Q&A is a very important part of this program.
We'll also be showing FRESH, the movie produced and directed by ana Sofia joanes. FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
This is the first workshop in a series of four planned in 2010 through a collaboration between the Rachel Carson Homestead Association, UPCI Center for Environmental Oncology and Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC
Light snacks will be served.
Although this event is FREE, registration is required.
More Info: Register Here
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Green Chemistry Roundtable #2
March 18 - 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the New Hazlett Theater – Join us for what promises to be a GREAT debate on Green Chemistry, Policy Issues and the reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
With top representatives from the American Chemistry Council, Environmental Working Group and Bayer Corporation, this is your chance to learn why TSCA is so important to your business, your health and the environment - and the future of green chemistry.
So don't miss what promises to be the most important debate on this issue on Thursday, March 18.
Moderator:
Gordon Mitchell, Director, William Pitt Debating Union, University of Pittsburgh (to be confirmed)
Debaters:
Michael P. Walls, Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs, American Chemistry Council
Timothy Jones, Regulatory Affairs - Material Science, Bayer Corporation
Jason Rano, Legislative Analyst, Environmental Working Group
Maryann Donovan, Ph.D., MPH, Director, UPCI Center for Environmental Oncology
Panel of Questioners:
Terry Collins, Ph.D., Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Student(s),William Pitt Debating Union, University of Pittsburgh
(other names to be published)
This is the second roundtable in a series of four planned in 2010 through a collaboration between the Rachel Carson Homestead Association and Champions for Sustainability (Sustainable Pittsburgh).
We are grateful to the William Pitt Debating Union of the University of Pittsburgh for their help with this event.
Light snacks will be served.
Thank you for your interest in the RCHA and this very important subject. Green Chemistry is happening now and is already changing the way major corporations and green-tech start-ups are designing the products we use every day. With the upcoming reform of TSCA - originally passed in 1976 - is there a need to put greater emphasis on safety and public health when it comes to a new chemicals policy in the United States?
More Info: Register Here
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