9. Green Venture Capital Investment HOW PUBLIC POLICY HAS STIMULATED PRIVATE INVESTMENT James Stack, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley John Balbach, Cleantech Venture Network Bob Epstein, and Teryn Hanggi. May 2006.
12. Public Health Impacts GROWING UP TOXIC Chemical Exposures and Increases in Developmental Disease Travis Madsen, Yana Kucher and Teri Olle ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER June 2004 Autism Prostate Cancer Cryptorchidism Breast Cancer Sperm Density
13. Reduce Long-Term Waste Management Cost by Taxpayer $$ Collected $ $$ Needed $ $157 million $1.2 billion
14. Two million plastic beverage bottles discarded every five seconds in U.S. Only 3% of plastic is recycled
21. Know Your Product ’s Footprint Environmental Footprint for a Timberland Shoe
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Editor's Notes
Green Chemistry shifts society ’s focus from “cradle-to-grave” to “cradle-to-cradle.” Rather than concentrating only on controlling the consequences of the waste, effluent, and emissions that society generates, green chemistry moves upstream—where the goods and products we use daily are conceived, designed, and manufactured.
Green Chemistry also offers California substantial benefits: High-skill, high-wage jobs in the new “clean technology” and materials industries, Economic growth based on sustainable, green businesses, and Increased share of the estimated $16 trillion global materials market
And, California can increase its share of the U.S. chemicals market by adopting green chemistry strategies.
which will grow at a pace faster than global population increases. Worldwide, people are becoming more prosperous and demanding more consumer goods. [Note: MG can tell the “carpet on the toilet tank” analogy here if she likes…as long as no names, nationalities, or other references are used.]
By applying Green Chemistry principles, we can implement a more systematic approach—to toxics in products—than the current legislative “ban without a plan” reaction.
Many folks who participated in our initiative assumed we were talking about chemical production. The news stories we read every day about dangerous chemicals found in various consumer goods—children ’s toys, pet food, toothpaste, etc.—and the legislative “ban without a plan” approach prompted our focus on products, especially those products which affect infants and children.
The marketplace today does not reflect the true cost of a product ’s lifecycle. This slide shows the billions of dollars in taxpayer costs required to manage the long-term consequences of goods and products thrown away in the last fifty years. Green Chemistry is a way to reduce and avoid these costs over the next fifty years.
A few quick slides to give you an idea of the magnitude of three waste streams from our disposable consumer products society.
After robust dialogue with stakeholders from around the world and across all sectors over the last sixteen months, the Initiative distills all of what we heard into six recommended strategies for California.
After robust dialogue with stakeholders from around the world and across all sectors over the last sixteen months, the Initiative distills all of what we heard into six recommended strategies for California.
California already has lots of goals to reduce environmental impacts – but they are all single-media focused – moving to a multimedia lifecycle focus means we can start measuring tradeoffs, and allow the market to decide where it can most efficiently get the most environmental gains at least cost
Many leading companies have such metrics already – Levi Strauss, Patagonia, Nike and Timberland - Walmart is developing similar tools for all its product suppliers
