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Current Projects
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Book:
Transforming Sustainability Strategy into Action
The book "Transforming
Sustainability Strategies into Action: The Chemical Industry" will serve
as a practical guide to sustainability. BRIDGES' Beth Beloff,
Marianne Lines, and Dicksen Tanzil are editors. The book is scheduled
for publication by John Wiley & Sons in September 2005.
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BRIDGESworks™
Metrics software
A trial version of
the BRIDGESworks™ Metrics software is scheduled for release in
November. For more information on the automated metrics tool, click here
(pdf, 106kb).
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The
Stanley Works metrics pilot
The Stanley Works, a worldwide manufacturer of tools, hardware,
and specialty hardware products, are piloting BRIDGES' sustainability metrics
approach (pdf, 560kb) at its three toolbox facilities. Interim results
of the project were presented by Kevin Nelson, Corporate EHS Director of
The Stanley Works, at the 11th International Greening of Industry Network
Conference in San Francisco,
October 12-15, 2003.
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Screening
Sustainability: Nanotechnology
The research
project focuses on developing a methodology to screen the sustainability
and life-cycle implications of emerging near-term nanotechnology
applications. Dr. Earl Beaver (Practical Sustainability) and Dr. Mark
Wiesner (Rice
University) are
BRIDGES' partners for this project, supported through a grant from the US
Environmental Protection Agency.
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US
BCSD Association Membership Program
Beth Beloff and
Marianne Lines from BRIDGES are developing a membership program for US
Business Council for Sustainable Development to include industry
associations and other nonprofit organizations with sustainability
initiatives.
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Past Projects
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Assessing
Life Cycle Impacts of a Steel Component
Full report (pdf,
1.7 MB)
Supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF); performed in
partnership with Caterpillar Inc.
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Incorporating
Total Cost Assessment for Chemical Complex Optimization (completed 2003)
Abstract & TOC
(pdf, 30kb; e-mail to request
full report)
Supported by the Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research Center (GCHSRC)
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Assessment
of Information Needs for Air Pollution Health Effects Research in Houston, Texas (completed 2003)
Full report (download
from TCET website)
Supported by the Texas Council on Environmental Technology (TCET)
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Using
Total Cost Assessment to Optimize Technology Selection for Pollution
Prevention in Chemical Complexes (completed 2002)
E-mail to request full report
Supported by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
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Environmental
Accounting System for SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) (completed 2001)
Report
proprietary
Supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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A
Pilot Study of Energy Performance Levels for the U.S. Chemical Industry (completed 2001)
Full report (pdf,
0.9MB)
Supported by the US Dept of Energy through subcontract with Oak Ridge
National Laboratory
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Sustainability
Metrics: Making Decisions for Major Chemical Products and Facilities (completed 2000)
Summary on facility
metrics; Summary
on product metrics; e-mail
for full report
Supported by the US Dept of Energy through subcontract with the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
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Evaluation
of Societal Costs: Odors and Eutrophication (completed 2000)
Full report (pdf,
1.2MB)
Supported by the US Dept of Energy and AIChE Center of Waste Reduction
Technologies (CWRT)
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Workshops,
seminars, and other education projects
Supported
by various sources
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