Lowell Center and Chemicals Policy Initiative

The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (Lowell Center) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, fosters innovative solutions to fuel progress toward a more sustainable world by developing, studying, and promoting environmentally sound systems of production, healthy work environments, and economically viable work organizations.

We work in partnership with workers, businesses, communities, organizations, and governments to:

• Increase knowledge and understanding of sustainable production through collaborative and interdisciplinary research, applied field projects, and information exchanges.
• Educate and build support for actions and policies that encourage sustainable production and consumption.
• Create cooperative solutions to complex problems by providing technical support, guidance, and vision.

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Over the past several years, the Chemicals Policy Initiative (CPI) at the Lowell Center has grown into one of the most prominent academic chemicals policy efforts in the US.  Through conferences, trainings, and engaging diverse constituencies, CPI has brought local, state and national actors into the discussion of chemicals management issues.

The overarching goal of these efforts is to encourage more sustainable chemicals policies.  To do this, CPI provides tools and resources to those organizations and individuals who can be agents of change, brings new actors into the chemicals policy dialogue, and helps to provide direction to reform consistent with the Lowell Center vision.

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