New TOOLS AND REPORTS
Asthma: A Business Case for Employers and Health Care Purchasers 28-page pdf
How can we afford not to give people with asthma access to programs that hold promise for reducing systems and costs? This report makes a business case for three priority strategies employers can pursue to reduce the burden of asthma among employees and dependents. It also provides a checklist of recommended asthma benefits for use by purchasers of health care as they design their health benefit programs.
The Clean Tech Policy Recommendations
6-page pdf
This brief outlines policy recommendations that would make Massachusetts a Clean Tech leader. In addition to clean energy, Massachusetts is poised for leadership in four other Clean Tech fields: safer alternatives/green chemistry; green buildings; materials reuse; and emerging materials. The recommendations also include specific actions that the state's policy makers, businesses, and others can take to make Massachusetts a national and international hub of innovation and adoption of clean technologies.
Full Report: Clean Tech: Agenda for a Healthy Economy 32-page pdf
This full report details the recommendations and underlying case for making Massachusetts a clean tech leader. It describes Massachusetts business assets, academic and educational assets, and the assets, barriers, and opportunities of three regions in Massachusetts. The report also summarizes findings from research conducted as part of the Clean Tech project.
A New Way of Thinking: The Lowell Center Framework for Sustainable Products 20-page pdf
This report is a tool to help companies evaluate the environmental, social, and economic impacts of existing products and to design new products that minimize these impacts. By defining the key elements of a sustainable product, the Framework helps companies develop a broader vision of what a sustainable product encompasses, identify opportunities for improvement, and assess progress in meeting that vision.
news and events
Save the Date--June 21 to 25, 2010, Lowell, Mass. for the Lowell Center's first Beyond Green: Sustainability Action Summer Institute. The Institute is designed for environment, health, and sustainability advocates in government, non-government organizations, corporations, private foundations, labor unions, health care institutions, and universities. More details coming soon.
If you would like further information about the Summer Institute or to be notified when registration opens, please email sasi@uml.edu
The Lowell Center is associated with the Department of Work Environment and the Toxics Use Reduction Institute at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
