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Consumer Power and Environmental Health
Joel Makower
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| Science and Technology Policy Institute |
Originally created by Congress in 1991 as the Critical Technologies Institute and renamed in 1998, the Science and Technology Policy Institute is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed by RAND. The Institute's mission is to help improve public policy by conducting objective, independent research and analysis on policy issues that involve science and technology. To this end, the Institute: - Supports the Office of Science and Technology Policy and other Executive Branch agencies, offices and councils.
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| Joel Makower |
"Consumer Power" was written by Joel Makower, who is editor of "The Green Business Letter" and creator of GreenBiz.com, a nonprofit resource center on corporate environmental responsibility. Grateful recognition and thanks are due to several individuals and organizations that provided research, resources, insight and support for this article: Will Allen, Sustainable Cotton Project; Noreen Clancy and Anders Hove, RAND Corporation; Kevin Coyle, the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation; Laurie Demeritt, the Hartman Group; Frank Lampe, LOHAS Journal; Janet Mansfield, Marketing Intelligence Service; Doug Miller, Environics; David Rejeski, the Woodrow Wilson Center; PJ Simmons, Greener Business Education Project; and Betsy Taylor, Center for a New American Dream.
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