Past Webinars
JULY 12, 2022
Forging tighter connections between climate goals and safer chemicals
Featured Speakers
- Mikhail Davis, Director of Technical Sustainability at Interface
- Doreen Fedrigo, Industrial Transformation Policy Coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe
- Teresa McGrath, Chief Research Officer at Healthy Building Network
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MARCH 1, 2022
Green Chemistry Market Research: Promising Signals for the Availability of Safe and Sustainable Alternatives
Featured Speakers
- Jay Golden, Inaugural Pontarelli Professor of Environmental Sustainability & Finance at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
- Robert Handfield, Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative and the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in NC State’s Poole College of Management
- Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Senior Scholar of Marketing and Corporate Outreach at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
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JUNE 28, 2021
Finding Alternatives: Resources, Tools and Strategies Used by Practitioners
Featured Speakers
- Anna Montgomery, Northwest Green Chemistry
- Amelia Nestler, Northwest Green Chemistry
- Elke Van Asbroeck, Aperion Team
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APRIL 12, 2021
OECD’s Guidance on Key Considerations for the Identification and Selection of Safer Chemical Alternatives
Featured Speakers
- Emily Conner, Abt Associates
- Eeva Leinala, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Denis Mottet, European Chemicals Agency; OECD Ad Hoc Group on the Substitution of Harmful Chemicals
- Karl Palmer, California Department of Toxic Substances Control
- Libby Sommer, Bolt Threads
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FEBRUARY 10, 2021
EU's Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-free Environment
Featured Speakers
- Elena Montani, European Commission DG ENV
- Pamela Spencer, ANGUS Chemical
- Joel Tickner, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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JULY 29, 2020
Alternatives Assessment and Environmental Justice: Current State of Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities
Featured Speakers
- José Bravo, Executive Director of the Just Transition Alliance
- Veena Singla, Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council
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Resources noted during the webinar:
MAY 20, 2020
A4 Quarterly Webinar Series: How to Get to Safer Alternatives Using Non-Animal Testing Methods: Part II
Featured Speakers
- Amy Clippinger, PETA International Science Consortium, Ltd.
- Pamela Spencer, ANGUS Chemical
- Margaret Whittaker, ToxServices
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Resources noted during the webinar:
JANUARY 29, 2020
A4 Quarterly Webinar Series: How to Get to Safer Alternatives Using Non-Animal Testing Methods
Featured Speakers
- Amy Clippinger, PETA International Science Consortium, Ltd.
- Pamela Spencer, ANGUS Chemical
Featured Respondents
- Lauren Heine, ChemFORWARD
- Shari Franjevic, Clean Production Action
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JANUARY 17, 2020
A4 Member Update Call - January 2020
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OCTOBER 25, 2019
Different Tools for Different Questions? Using Alternatives Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Life Cycle Assessment
- Martin Wolf, Seventh Generation
- Annie Bevan, Superior Essex
- Libby Sommer, Bolt Threads
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JULY 11, 2019
Alternatives Assessment's Past, Present, & Future
- Joel Tickner, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
- Molly Jacobs, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
- Amelia Nestler, Northwest Green Chemistry
- Pam Spencer, Angus Chemical Company
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OCTOBER 23, 2018
Alternatives Assessment 101
- Joel Tickner, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Pam Eliason, Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute
- Pamela Spencer, ANGUS Chemical Company
- Timothy Malloy, UCLA
- Cathy Rudisill, SRC Inc.
- Meredith Williams, California Department of Toxic Substances and Control
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