Chemicals &
Just Transition
Tackling the Triple Planetary Crisis
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) calls the intersection of chemical pollution, climate impacts and biodiversity loss the Triple Planetary Crisis. We must work collectively at this intersection to multi-solve these interconnected issues and ensure that the most impacted communities are part of co-creating a just transition to a thriving, regenerative future. You can find materials here focusing on addressing disproportionate exposures to harmful chemicals and transitioning us to safer options.
Bay Area Climate Restoration Solutions: Perennial Industrial Feedstocks
MeetUp Event The Promise of Perennials: Optimizing Perennial Feedstocks and Green...
Climate, Health, and Equity
Dr. Ann Blake from EPHC is leading a workgroup discussion within the Cancer Free Economy...
Green Chemistry and Carbon Sequestration
Handbook of EcoMaterials Chapter on Perennial Industrial Crops: Green Chemistry and...
EPHC and Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry to Assist Costco Wholesale
The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (BCGC) and Costco Wholesale Corporation...
Protecting the Most Vulnerable When Selecting Safer Alternatives
EPHC’s Principal, Dr. Ann Blake, worked with Sally Edwards at the University of...
Safer Alternatives in the Philippines
Creating a Toxic Free Future Globally Dr. Ann Blake recently visited the Philippines,...
The Post-Petroleum Chronicles: Bio-Economy is worth over a trillion Euro in Europe’s 5 biggest economies
2015 Bioeconomy in Italy Worth €251 Billion In 2015, bioeconomy in Italy has shown a...
1.7 million children a year lost to preventable pollution
Global Impact of Inadequate Sanitation Two new reports from the World Health...
Researchers Estimate that Exposure to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals Costs 2% of US GDP
Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in US Greater than in Europe A recent article...
EPHC Makes B Lab’s Best for the Environment List 2016
Environmental & Public Health Consulting is honored to once again make the “Best for...
Cancer Free Economy Network (CFEN)
The Cancer Free Economy Network (CFEN) is a network of diverse organizations and funding...
Making Alternatives Assessment Protective for Vulnerable Populations
Dr. Blake and Sally Edwards, ScD. of UMass Lowell’s Center for Sustainable Production...
HuffPo: Preventing Cancer Upstream: California’s Safer Consumer Products Program
Dr. Ann Blake of EPHC and Debbie Raphael, Director of the San Francisco Department of...
Women’s Voices for the Earth and EPHC Founder Featured In Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly
EPHC’s Dr. Ann Blake and environmental health colleague and sister alumna Aimee...
Better for the Bay: 2003 Flame Retardant Chemical Phase Out Pays off For Wildlife
California’s Pioneering Ban on Two PBDEs A recent report from the San Francisco Estuary...
Chemicals and Climate: Two Trunks of the Same Tree
The Linkage Between Chemicals and Climate On the eve of key climate change talks and the...
Plastics Scorecard V 1.0 Launched July 1 2014
Ann Blake, PhD of Environmental & Public Health Consulting and Mark Rossi, PhD,...
Five Steps to Reduce the Chemical Footprint of Plastic Products
By switching the type of plastic used in its IV bags, Dignity Health care system kept...
Plastics Scorecard v.1.0
Ann Blake, PhD, Founder and Principal of Environmental & Public Health Consulting,...
End of Life Treatment Options for Pharmaceutical Waste
Environmental & Public Health Consulting has completed a report covering...
Cal/EPA DTSC Green Ribbon Science Panel
Cal/EPA DTSC Panel Ann Blake has been reappointed to the Green Ribbon Science Panel,...
Neuro Toxic No-Brainer: Mercury Skin Whiteners
Women’s Voices for the Earth has just posted my guest blog on mercury-containing skin...
GreenBiz.Com’s The Right Chemistry Blog: California’s Safer Consumer Product Regulations and B Corps
Why California is Leading the Way on Chemical Policy Reform I was recently invited to...
Ann Blake Speaks at Mount Holyoke College
Dr. Ann Blake, founder and principal of Environmental and Public Health Consulting, had...
ChemHAT Featured in New OSHA Online Toolkit for Safer Chemicals
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), back at work after the...
Developing Guidance For Alternatives Assessment Workshop
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park,...
Tools for the Selection of Replacements for Chemicals of Concern
17th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference 17th Annual Green Chemistry and...
West Marine Pure Oceans Brand
EPHC is working with West Marine, a major retailer of boating-related products, to...
Putting Breast Cancer Out of Work
EPHC will be working with the Blue Green Alliance, United Steelworkers, Union of Food...
Use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Regulatory Alternatives Analysis: A Case Study of Lead-Free Solder
Multi-Attribute Utility Aanalysis and OutrankingAbstract Regulators are implementing new...
December 8, 2011 Testimony to California Assembly Environmental Safety & Toxic Materials Committee
On December 8, 2011, Dr. Ann Blake testified before the California Assembly’s...
Women, Cosmetics, and Toxic Chemicals
Dr. Ann Blake presented to Mount Holyoke College alumnae in Singapore on August 25, 2012
Alternatives Assessment: Emerging Best Practice
Dr. Ann Blake presented and moderated panel on alternatives assessment tools and...
Microwave Popcorn and Regrettable Substitutions
Popcorn Butter Flavor May Be Worker Hazard Here’s a classic example of what my...
Electronics TakeBack Coalition
Environmental & Public Health Consulting is researching chemicals in electronics...
Environmental Defense Chemical Prioritization
Environmental & Public Health Consulting is working with EDF’s Environmental Health...
San Francisco Environment Pharmaceutical Takeback
Environmental & Public Health Consulting completed a report for the City and County...
Worker Training on Green Chemistry and Safer Alternatives
Environmental & Public Health Consulting is working with the Blue Green Alliance and...
NAHMMA Most Inspiring Member Award
Dave Waddell of the King County Local Hazardous Waste Management Program Acknowledges...
Women, Cosmetics, and Toxic Chemicals
March 16, 2012 A presentation to barangay leaders, Cebu City, Philippines, at the...
Good Guide
Good Guide (now Clearya) is a dynamic social venture startup at the forefront of...
B Lab: Health and Safety Criteria Development
A New Type of Corporation B Lab is the non-profit organization which certifies,...
Cradle to Cradle Assessment
Ann Blake serves as a Science Advisor to the Cradle-to-Cradle Product Innovations...
UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program
Alternatives Assessment Methodology Development for AB 1879 California Green Chemistry...
ChemHAT: A Worker Chemical Hazard and Alternatives Tool
EPHC is working with the Blue Green Alliance to design and develop a worker chemical...
Pollution Prevention Center – Occidental College
The Pollution Prevention Center is pat of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute...
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (Breast Cancer Fund)
June 2006 – October 2007 Working with Campaign and Compact signers on implementation of...
International POPS Elimination Network
June 2006 – Present IPEN is a global network of public interest non-governmental...
California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative: Research Advisory Committee
California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative, Research Advisory Committee The research...
WAGES: Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security
WAGES‘ mission is to build worker-owned green businesses that create healthy, dignified...
The Computer Take-Back Campaign (Clean Production Action)
June 2006 – December 2007 Clean Production Action (CPA) is a non-profit that promotes...
City and County of San Francisco Department of the Environment
2004 – Present Toxics Reduction Program Perform chemicals-use audits of hotels,...
City of Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant
July 2008-Present General toxics reduction and pollution prevention strategies...
State of Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) / State of Hawaii Department of Health (DOH)
October 2005 – Present Worked with DBEDT and DOH to provide information and resources...
City of Seattle Public Utilities
July 2008 – January 2009 Chemical inventory and toxics reduction strategies; selecting...
National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
January – June 2006 Provided training on Environmentally Preferable Purchasing and Green...
Promoting Environmentally Preferable Janitorial Products Project (Jenifer Altman Foundation)
Promoting Environmentally Preferable Janitorial Products Provided toxics use audits and...
Green Screen for Safer Chemicals
Dr. Blake is a member of the Green Screen Technical Advisory Committee, providing...
Precautionary Principle Implementation
City of San Francisco Precautionary Principle Ordinance In June 2003, the City and...
International Chemicals Policy
2010-currentInternational POPS Elimination Network ipen.org Scientific Advisor...
National and State Environmental Regulation
From March 1993 to May 2002 I worked at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s...
Local Government Environmental Management
Cities of: San Francisco Seattle Santa Monica Palo Alto • State of Hawaii City and...
What’s That Smell?
June 2010 What’s That Smell? Women’s Voices for the Earth
Disinfectant Overkill
November 2009 Publication: “Disinfectant Overkill“Be sure to check out the YouTube...
Household Hazards
July 2007 “Household Hazards” pubilication with Women’s Voices for the Earth This report...
Pollution Prevention and African-American Hair Salons
Report goes hereJune 30, 2007 Pollution Prevention and African-American Hair Salons...
Promoting Environmentally Preferable Janitorial Products in San Francisco Hotels
Report goes hereMarch 2006 “Promoting Environmentally Preferable Janitorial Products in...
Garment Cleaning Chemicals Alternatives Assessment
August 2006 “Garment Cleaning Chemicals Alternatives Assessment” Urban &...
Brominated Flame Retardants: At What Cost?
Spring 2005 “Brominated Flame Retardants: At What Cost?”
The Next Generation of POPS: PBDEs and Lindane
April 2005 IPEN has collected chicken eggs from hot spots around the world and analyzed...
Health and Environmental Hazards of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) and other Brominated Flame Retardants (BFRs)
POPS Elimination Network Fact SheetSeptember 2004 This document summarizes issues with...
Brominated Flame Retardants in Dust on Computers
June 2004 Brominated Flame Retardants in Dust on Computers: The Case for Safer Chemicals...
Kate Raworth on Exploring Donut Economics
My vision is of a human presence on the planet where everyone’s needs are met, including those of the planet. This human presence recognizes the interdependence of all life and all communities, is equitable, just, and spiritually fulfilling.
After thirty-plus years of finding safer chemicals and materials in over a dozen different global sectors of consumer product manufacturing, I bring my passion for economic and environmental justice and systems approaches to the task of building better local and regional economies. I am inspired and informed by Kate Raworth’s invaluable concepts.
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