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Spring/Summer 2006
Table of Contents:

• New York Passes Suite of Environmental Bills
• New York City's Commercial Refuse Haulers: INFORM Looks at an Unregulated Sector
• Letter from the Chairman of the Board, James J. Periconi, Esq.
• Green Holidays - December 6th 2006
• Green Holidays Shopping Produces Happy Customers
• INFORMing Others: INFORM - Founding Signatory of the International StEP Initiative
• Managing Childhood Asthma - A Concerted Effort Among Parents, Schools and Doctors
• In the Interim: Dorothy Delayo Serves as Interim Executive Director

INFORM Reports Spring/Summer 2006 (3.3 MB)

WINTER 2005
Table of Contents:

• Maine's New Law: Making Electronics Manufacturers Pay for Product Waste
• Forthcoming INFORM Report Shows Refuse Trucks Can be Good Neighbors
• Letter from the President: Looking to a Bright Future
• What is Extended Producer Responsibility?
• INFORM Gives New York State Schools a Head Start on Green Cleaning
• INFORMing Others: Release of a New INFORM Report
• Lloyd Hicks, INFORM's New Director of Solid Waste Prevention

INFORM Reports Winter 2005 (2.0 MB)

 

SPRING/SUMMER 2005
Table of Contents:

• The Challenge of Cell Phone and Battery Recycling
• New Frontiers: Great Lakes Teleconferences Inaugurate a New Outreach Format
• Letter from the President: Fresno and New York City: What Do They Have in Common?
• Winning Experiences from INFORM's Green Holidays Reception
• INFORMation: Green Cleaning Your Home
• The Basel Convention Workgroup Adds INFORM Recommendations to Its Draft Guidelines
• INFORMing Others: Release of a New INFORM Report
• INFORMing Others through Public Outreach
• Virginia Ramsey: Leading the Development Team
• Envisioning Environmentally Sustainable Communities

INFORM Reports Spring/Summer 2005 (6.5 MB)

FALL/WINTER 2004
Table of Contents:

• New INFORM Study Finds the US on a Collision Course With Asia Over Oil
• INFORM and Montclair Collaborate on Sustainability
• President's Letter: Buying Less, Buying Green—Safeguarding our Children’s World
• Meet Our Interns
• INFORM’s Green Holidays Reception and Sustainable Products Silent Auction INFORM
• Green Cleaning Sweeps the Northeast
• INFORMing Others: Supporting Urban Policy that Protects the Environment
• INFORMation: In Vehicle Ownership, The US Creates An Unsustainable Model

INFORM Reports Fall/Winter 2004 (223 KB)

SUMMER 2004
Table of Contents:

• INFORM Spotlights Fluorescents
• INFORM Workshops Help California Garbage Fleets
• President's Letter: Across America, Communities Start to Embrace Sustainability
• Meet Our Interns
• New VP to Head Up Programs at INFORM
• INFORMing Others:
  • Working for Healthy Cities
  • Promoting Sustainable Products
  • Protecting the Global Environment
• INFORMation: Toxic Flame Retardants: Time to Worry?

INFORM Reports Summer 2004 (223 KB PDF)

WINTER 2004
Table of Contents:

• New Report: Cell Phone Collection Programs Critical but Underutilized
• Green Purchasing Project Widens Reach
• President's Letter: 2004 -- A Year to Vote With Your Purse
• The Role of Natural Gas: A Look at the Future (by James S. Cannon, Senior Transportation Fellow)
• Funding News
• INFORMing Others:
  • Connecticut to Central Europe and Beyond
  • Rivermead Pioneers
• INFORMation: EU Legislates...US Industry Responds

INFORM Reports Winter 2004 (128 KB PDF)

WINTER 2003
Table of Contents

• Waste-Free NYC Gets Under Way
• Refuse Haulers Start to Forego Diesel: INFORM Documents a Slow, Steady Shift to Natural Gas
• President's Letter: Hydrogen for Transportation...Closer Than You Think
• After Oil: Discussion on Energy Policy Draws a Crowd
• Putting Green Cleaning to Work
• Four Join INFORM's Board of Directors
• INFORMing Others:
  • New Jersey Colleges Get Greener
  • Refuse Haulers Get the Good News
• INFORMation: Persistent Toxic Chemicals...They're in the Products (go to article online)

INFORM Reports Winter 2003 (160 KB PDF)

SUMMER 2002
Table of Contents

• Phones "R" Us: INFORM's Take on Wireless Waste
• INFORM Publishes One-Stop Guide to Safer Cleaners
• President's Letter: Buying for a Sustainable Future
• Photo Essay: Springtime Revels
• INFORMing Others:
  • Environmental Justice
  • Right to Know Survives in Oregon
• INFORMation: Transportation's Dependence on Diesel

INFORM Reports Summer 2002 (172 KB PDF)

SPRING 2002
Table of Contents

• Mercury-Free and More:INFORM’s Purchasing Initiative Gets Results
• Reuse, New York!
• President's Letter: So Many Products...So Many Toxic Chemicals
• Eric Most: Director, Solid Waste Prevention Program
• INFORMing Others:
  • Producer Responsibility: Voluntary or Mandated?
  • Vehicles for Security and Health
• INFORMation: Wireless Waste Proliferates

INFORM Reports Spring 2002 (100 KB PDF)

FALL 2001
Table of Contents

• INFORM to Oversee Major New Waste Prevention Program in New York City
• New Chair and Four New Members Join INFORM's Board
• President's Letter: Making Energy a Path to Peace
• A Salute to Sanitation and the Clean Garbage Trucks of the Future
• INFORMing Others:
  • Clean Computer Collaboration
  • Battling Batteries at the Bay
• INFORMation: Transportation's Appetite for Oil

INFORM Reports Fall 2001 (163 KB PDF)

SPRING 2001
Table of Contents

• The Right to Know More: New Research Shows the Benefits of Expanded Toxic Chemical Reporting
• Tackling Electronics Waste: A Talk with Bette Fishbein
• President's Letter: Transportation -- The Key to Our Energy Future
• INFORMing Others:
  • Action on Mercury Pollution
  • Promoting Business Innovation: Corporate Vanguard
  • INFORM President at Kentucky Dept. of Environmental Protection
• Two New Reports
  • Leasing: A Step Toward Producer Responsibility
  • Expanding the Public's Right to Know: Materials Accounting Data as a Tool for Promoting Environmental Justice and Pollution Prevention
• INFORMation: Green and Mean on the Road

INFORM Reports Spring 2001 (494 KB PDF)

FALL/WINTER 2000
Table of Contents

• Clean-Fuel Buses: INFORM Makes the Case and Cities Listen
• Two Regions Join INFORM's Toxic-Free Products Initiative
• President's Letter: New Products for a New World
• Photo Essay: Book Launch (Extended Producer Responsibility)
• PROFILE: Alicia Culver, Director, Chemical Hazards Prevention Program
• INFORMing Others:
  • End of an Era (Working to Cut New York City Waste)
  • The Internet: Environmental Boon or Bane?
• Four New Reports
  • Bus Futures: New Technologies for Cleaner Cities
  • Clean Transportation for New York: A Long Road Ahead
  • Green Transportation for New Jersey: The Promise of Clean Fuels
  • Driving Clean Transportation ­ LEV II: A Policy That Works (A Case Study of New York State)
• INFORMation: Natural Gas Replacing Diesel in Transit Fleets Nationwide

INFORM Reports Fall/Winter 2000 (1 MB PDF)

SUMMER 2000
Table of Contents

• Good News for Clean Transit
• INFORM Throws a Party in Eco-Style
• President's Letter: Our First Quarter Century
• INFORM Research Featured at Resources Summit
• Photo Essay: INFORM's 25th Anniversary Celebration
• INFORMation: A New Trend in Transportation

INFORM Reports Summer 2000 (1.1 MB PDF)

SPRING 2000
Table of Contents

• Toxics Reporting Secure in New Jersey, For Now
• Shifting to Clean-Fuel Vehicles: New York Falls Behind
• President's Letter: Carpe Diem, New York
• Training Businesses to Close the Loop
• Presidential Plaudits
• Coming Attractions (Four New Publications):
  • Extended Producer Responsibility
  • Green Transportation for New Jersey
  • Bus Futures
  • Building Up to Danger: Bioaccumulative Toxins
• INFORMing Others:
  • Diesel Dies Hard
  • New York's Landfill-Free Future
• INFORMation: CO2 from Transportation Keeps on Rising

INFORM Reports Spring 2000 (904 KB PDF)

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