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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: consumer products + we not + pollution  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/12/2008)


Adweek
Deflating a Myth
Adweek, NY - May 11, 2008
"We do not believe greenwashing has yet become a mainstream consumer issue," says Cone's Lawrence, "but it is an emerging one, with watchdogs, Web sites and ...
Open Letter to Canadian Supermarket CEOs
Canada Free Press, Canada -
Not only do we produce less pollution transporting from producer to consumer, we are supporting our local farmers and economy and are getting food which has ...
Lean, mean - and green
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - May 9, 2008
The community good, which accompanied the regulated postwar economy, Reich notes, has languished as we've gained consumer products and bought into the stock ...
Cleaner fuel subs for oil but has costs
Arizona Republic, AZ - May 11, 2008
It has been used in Arizona as a winter gasoline additive to help control carbon monoxide pollution for more than a decade. Ethanol was not economical to ...
Businesses realize need to go green
Arizona Republic, AZ - May 9, 2008
He spoke of the company's commitment to make less-polluting consumer products, such as soaps and lotions, use less energy making and shipping them, ...
Mega-markets? movable global feast levies high pollution cost
Taipei Times, Taiwan - Apr 29, 2008
More important, Watkiss said, ?we are not paying the environmental cost of all that travel.? Europe is poised to change that. ...

Center For American Progress
Up, Up, and Away?
Center For American Progress, DC - May 9, 2008
Some public officials believe that ?25 percent of the premium for petroleum products is a result of speculation and not supply and demand. ...
Scientists, Researchers, NGOs, & DCA Lead Electronics Industry to ...
PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - May 7, 2008
Following a decision last December by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to not move forward with an open flame standard for furniture foam due ...BAK:EIC
Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable
ZDNet - May 4, 2008
The world of energy and hydrocardon compounds is NOT a series of closed compartments. Every political or economic or consumer decision necessarily helps ...

New York Times
Answers About Alternative Energy in the City, Part 3
New York Times, United States - May 2, 2008
Anaerobic digesters that use manure are another great example of using waste products to produce power and prevent pollution (from runoff that contaminates ...LON:ALR
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A three-dimensional conceptual model of corporate performance
AB Carroll - Academy of Management Review, 1979 - JSTOR
... some of the following areas: pollution problems ... the requirements of the Consumer
Product Safety Commission ... for cor- porate social performance, we not only have ...

The role of personal values in marketing and consumer behavior
DE Vinson, JE Scott, LM Lamont - Journal of Marketing, 1977 - JSTOR
... to protect consumers comfortable, secure not misrepresent a ... the appeal of 10 consumer
products and services ... It should be noted, however, that we are describing ...

Upstream Pollution, Downstream Waste Disposal, and the Design of Comprehensive Environmental … -
M Walls, K Palmer - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2001 - Elsevier
... up as produced output which eventually ends up as post-consumer solid waste or
recycling or a manufacturing waste by-product, which we denote by z ...

Indoor air pollution: a public health perspective -
JD Spengler, K Sexton - Science, 1983 - sciencemag.org
... In this article we discus tific basis for ... and possible health conse- quences have
not been evaluated ade ... from building ma- terials and consumer products may ad ...

[BOOK] Chemical product design -
EL Cussler, GD Moggridge - 2001 - loc.gov
... Substitutions in Consumer Products ... We believe that product design merits increased
emphasis because of ... We do not argue that the chemical engineer?s concern ...

Corporate social responsibility and firm financial performance
JB McGuire, A Sundgren, T Schneeweis - Academy of Management Journal, 1988 - JSTOR
... 4 3 To further validate the ratings, we compared the ... The council evalu- ated consumer
products firms on charitable ... Although the correlation is not as strong as ...

A New Approach to Consumer Theory -
KJ Lancaster - The Journal of Political Economy, 1966 - UChicago Press
... and price sensitivity in discrete choice experiments: need we worry ... (1979) AN ACTIVITIES
MODEL OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR WITH ... (1979) Product attraction, advertising ...

Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment -
GJ Borjas, SG Bronars - Journal of Political Economy, 1989 - UChicago Press
... While some increased quitting involves product purchases, we find that product
advertisements also prompt cold ... Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment. ...

Environmental concern in consumer evaluation of food quality -
M Wandel, A Bugge - Food Quality and Preference, 1997 - Elsevier
... to pay more for these products, or likelihood to buy these products today. ... produced
foods, and they may be different in various consumer groups. Therefore, we ...

Buyer Characteristics of the Green Consumer and Their Implications for Advertising Strategy.
LJ Shrum, JA Mccarty, TM Lowrey - Journal of Advertising, 1995 - questia.com
... We used regression analyses to determine the relation between the consumer variables
and the intention to buy environmentally safe products. ...

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Why Are We Not Protected From The Pollution From Everyday Consumer Products?
Cosmetics, tile cleaners, insect repellants, shampoos, laundry detergents and prescription drugs are just some of the everyday products containing harmful endocrine-disrupting substances (EDS) that can seriously damage our health. The red flags currently being raised about these EDSs ending up in our water couldn't have come sooner.

We have learned from harrowing stories in the past that exposure to incredibly small amounts of EDSs, such as Thalidomide and the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol, and the timing of the exposure, can cause dramatic birth defects. Developing fetuses are a vulnerable population needing our protection.
It's clear that governments and academia need to set clear priorities for research and put more resources into examining and understanding this issue. Unfortunately, the Harper Government's new Science and Technology Strategy is going in the opposite direction as it hints at privatizing its government research labs.

And in Ontario, the government needs to listen to the Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller's advice and support research into water treatment technologies to remove these substances from our water.

Last year, the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) published "There is No AWAY," a major report on EDSs in our water (available at www.cielap.org) that includes recommendations to governments for handling this problem, specifically, creating policy that would prevent these pollutants from getting into our water in the first place. And when we don't have enough hard proof, precaution and prevention ought to be the course of action.

We highlight a number of actions governments can take to curb EDS pollution. They can initiate public and consumer education programs; establish municipal by-laws about avoiding home pesticide use and not discarding drugs down toilets and sewers; develop product standards; and restrict manufacturers from using some substances, or at least limiting the amounts they use.

Consumers also need a better system to be able to identify safer personal care and cleaning products. We need our government to initiate a system for mandatory labeling that allows and promotes consumer choice. It's absurd that consumers have no reliable way to tell whether the soaps, deodorants, and cleaners they buy - to put on their skin and use in their homes - contain potentially harmful substances.

In the long-term, however, people's safety shouldn't be left to consumer choice. As we learn more about EDSs and the risks they present to human health, problem ingredients should be banned.
We must act now to educate citizens and provide them with the tools they need to make informed decisions for their health and the health of their environments. A labeling program, which would let consumers better understand and choose the chemicals they consume, would be a good start.

Founded in 1970, the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) is an independent environmental law and policy research and education organization.

http://www.cielap.org
 
 
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