Application deadline for MI Green Chemistry Governor's Award is Friday, July 18!

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Attention innovators!

Nominations for the 2014 Michigan Green Chemistry Governor's Award
are due this Friday, July 18!

Have you used green chemistry to make an impact in your business, community, or school?

Apply for a 2014 Michigan Green Chemistry Governor’s Award if you have designed or implemented an innovative project, for example by replacing or reducing a hazardous substance, reducing resource use, enhancing recyclability, or designing a safer chemical product or process.

• The Award Program is open to individuals, groups, and organizations in Michigan, both nonprofit and for profit, including industry, academia, education, and advocates.

• A green chemistry technology can be an entirely new chemical product or process or an improvement on an existing product or process.

• Green chemistry improves upon all types of chemical products and processes by reducing their impacts on human health and the environment relative to competing technologies. Benefits to human health and the environment may occur at any point in the technology’s lifecycle: feedstock, synthesis, use, and ultimate fate.

View the full nomination packet and a list of past award winners at: www.michigan.gov/greenchemistry

Contact Mr. Chris Affeldt with questions at: greenchemistry@michigan.gov