The Environmental Genome Initiative Team Has Been Investing in a Better World for Decades

Will You Join Us?

We see opportunities to address some of the most existential challenges of our time: global warming, chronic disease, and the need to create more efficient and sustainable product designs that have a lower environmental footprint. These affect all segments of our population.

We are experts in the challenges we’ve chosen to confront with decades of experience researching industrial pollution prevention, green energy, pharmaceutical and other life science research, process and sustainable systems engineering, chemical circularity, life cycle impact, and risk modeling.

We aim to work together with people and organizations who share our goals and invite foundations and other funding organizations, investors, government agencies, product manufacturers, industry associations, and environmental justice advocates to work with us to create a safer, healthier world.

“This large knowledge space is what we’re trying to fill with the Environmental Genome Initiative.”

– EGI Founder and Executive Director Dr. Michael Overcash

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Why Collaborate With the Environmental Genome Initiative?

Global Impact

The detailed data on products and chemicals in our database are facilitating research on environmental pollutants that make up a significant part of the 70% to 90% of chronic diseases attributed to the environment. At the personal health level, the Environmental Genome (EG) has expanded our knowledge of how maternal fetal health is impacted by exposure to environmental pollutants. The EG also has impact on national security, from the detection of weapons of mass destruction to our over dependence on foreign supply chains. And the design of products can now be better focused on quality, innovative products with a lower environmental footprint. This powerful range of direct uses emphasizes the benefit of mapping the Environmental Genome.

Scale

Ours is the largest, transparent chemicals/materials life cycle inventory database in the world, providing primary data on the content, design, manufacturing processes, and energy use for many corporate programs. EG’s database is many times larger than its closest competitor and the best means for measuring the direct and indirect emissions of manufactured products and their environmental and economic impacts. Growth of the EG is thus a vital step to impact all of the chemicals-in-commerce and all global products.

Income Growth

The Environmental Genome is playing a major role in supporting climate risk disclosure and mitigation efforts and we believe it will yield many other societal health and safety benefits. Opportunities in analytics software built on the EG database are extensive and influential in corporate manufacturing sustainability, environmentally-smart product design, and improving our national security. Our open source model can support many for-profit applications that will fuel our long-term growth while helping to keep operating costs low. We expect the analytics and new applications it can generate will follow a similar path as the mapping of the DNA code that makes up the human genome, which returned about $144 million for every $1 million invested in mapping.

Purpose Driven Team

We are experts in the challenges we’ve chosen to confront with decades of experience in chemical engineering, industrial engineering, and human health science. Our specialties in industrial pollution prevention, green energy, process and sustainable systems engineering, chemical circularity, life cycle impact, and risk modeling informs our vision and our work.

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Applications for the Environmental Genome Database

National Competitiveness and Security

Reduce dependence on foreign supply chains
Identify undisclosed production of chemical weapons
Unauthorized production of cyber technology such as stealth coatings
Measure chemical discharges after natural or manmade accidents and events
Corporate patent violations

Public Health Information Related to all the Products we Consume

Estimate the health impacts of exposures to emissions to air, water, and land
Develop new life science applications
Research and improvements in the social determinants of health (SDOH) with manufacturing plant data on emissions and disability-adjusted life years (DALY)
Quantify the environmental pollutant origins affecting nearly one billion people globally with chronic diseases
Research on ways in which maternal fetal health is impacted by exposure to environmental pollutants
Quantify environmental disparity
Estimate fugitive emissions

Manufacturing and Product Design Improvement

Energy and mass efficiency
Analysis to facilitate technological innovations for energy and material conservation, improved processes, and sustainable product designs
Better manufacturing supply chains
Lower costs due to pollution prevention, reduced water and carbon impacts, and greater efficiencies
Quantify the environmental impacts of new chemicals, materials, colors, coatings, etc. in product designs
Tools that meet the fast-paced demands of the product design process
Capture customer benefits in environmental improvements

Compliance, Communications and Competitiveness

Compliance with local, national, and international environmental regulations
Carbon footprint
Environmental Product Declarations
Building certification
Health, safety, and sustainability claims
Product comparisons
Product cost reductions
Product labeling
Increase competitiveness through chemical improvements and innovation
Safety and risk assessments
Sustainable procurement
Water footprint