A first-of-its-kind event - on October 31st, 2007, Northern Essex Community College hosted the Green Chemistry Business Summit -

We held a brainstorming session for the Demonstration Center at the Warner-Babcock Institute of Green Chemistry in Wilmington on July 27, 2009. It was attended by 15 stakeholders in the Demonstration Center. We used the 6 Thinking Hats Brainstorming Method. The notes are enclosed.

Three cheers for the Valley Patriot on it's 5th Anniversary.  This upstart is creating a platform for new voices to be heard throughout the Merrimack Valley.  One of those new voices is us, writers of the Innovation Valley column.  For the past three years our column has been a regular feature and we are grateful. As readers of the Innovation Column know, it's goal is to highlight the world's leading initiatives for municipal business development and quality-of-life improvements.  Every month we report on a program that provides opportunities for the Merrimack Valley.

An article on the summit has been picketed up by the New York Times and appeared in their Technology section on Monday, November 12. The article, written by Martin LaMonica of CNET, was also a lead story on News.com.

Turning Ideas into Dollars and Jobs: A report on the Green Chemistry Business Summit...The Summit was an unprecedented gathering of scientists, investors, industry executives, and regional planners, specifically for the purpose of harnessing the economic and workforce development potential of nontoxic manufacturing through Green Chemistry.

A first-of-its-kind summit of industrial leaders, scientists, and financiers assembled to harness the global business opportunities for nontoxic manufacturing through Green Chemistry.

We propose a global summit orchestrated in the Merrimack Valley to match two cutting-edge trends key to the region’s future. These are, firstly, Innovation Networking, an emerging business model that promotes sharing of intellectual property amongst diverse sectors, and, secondly, Green Chemistry, a rapidly growing industrial practice that eliminates the use of hazardous materials in manufacturing.

Dear Governor-Elect Patrick, We are writing to alert you to a matter of economic and environmental urgency. The Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts is on the cusp of becoming a global leader in the emerging science of Green Chemistry.

Our mission is to help jump-start a new industry of Green Chemistry in the Merrimack Valley. Green Chemistry is a practice that reduces or eliminates the use of hazardous materials manufacturing.

Green Chemistry is a philosophy that seeks to reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous materials at the design stage of a materials process. It has been demonstrated that materials and products CAN be designed with negligible impact on human health and the environment while still being economically competitive and successful in the marketplace.