Changing chemistry - the way it is taught, perceived, and applied - is a huge global task that we need to tackle with a clear and consistent message as a green chemistry community. This transition, of course, won’t happen all at once or all on its own. Co

ACS GCI has launched our "What's Your Green Chemistry?" campaign and we want to hear your green chemistry stories! "What's Your Green Chemistry?" is designed to showcase the diverse work and innovative approaches being adopted across our sector, and raise

Contributed By Rui Resendes, Executive Director, GreenCentre Canada

I belong to a diverse group of technology professionals broadly referred to as “chemists.” As chemists (or chemical engineers) most of us would describe ourselves as manipulators of molecu

Have you ever wondered if your little pocket-sized tube of hand-sanitizer really works on germs?  Or more importantly, have you ever wondered if it’s really safe to your health?

The ugly truth is that many anti-bacterial hand-sanitizers contain harmful ing

Contributed by Vani Nadarajah, Director of Admissions for Executive MBA and Global Programs, Yale School of Management

The Yale School of Management’s (SOM) MBA for Executives program kicked off in 2005 with an exclusive focus in healthcare. This year the

By David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®

It’s been an incredibly eventful summer for Green Chemistry starting with the 18th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference that I wrote about in my June column. Since then, I’ve had the

Contributed by Mark R. Mason, Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and G. Glenn Lipscomb, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Toledo

The University of Toledo (UT) School of Green Chemistry and Engineering (SGCE) continues to deve

Contributed By Melissa Delekta, MSU Bioeconomy Institute

When Michigan State University accepted the Holland, MI-based Bioeconomy Institute in 2007 as a gift from Pfizer, it took on a $50 million-plus property that was poised to set MSU apart from other un

Contributed by Dr. Marty Mulvihill, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry

We teach many courses focused on technical knowledge and a few that talk about its application; yet there is so much that one cannot truly learn until having to

Contributed by Jeffery Whitford, Sigma-Aldrich [PRESS RELEASE]

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation dramatically decreased its global water and energy use, increased its investment in Green Chemistry and donated more than 8,000 hours of community service around the w

As local and national governments struggle to deal with ever-growing piles of electronic waste (or “e-waste”), scientists are now refining the picture of just how much there is and where it really ends up. Published in the ACS journal Environmental Scienc

A review of some of the talks present at the GC&E Conference from the session, “Greening the Supply Chain Using Biobased Chemicals”

Richard Mehigh from Sigma Aldrich described how his team improved a process to extract β-Amylase from  sweet potatoes (or ya

Contributed by Rachel C. Severance, Arizona Chemical, LLC

While it is easy to take our road network for granted, it is an impressive feat of engineering that must be continually serviced, maintained, and expanded. According to the Federal Highway Administr

A review of some of the talks present at the GC&E Conference from the session, “Abundant Innovation: Pathways to new chemical feedstocks from CO2 and natural gas”

Professor James Clark of the University of York in the U.K., opened the session with an intr

The ACS GCI Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference technical programming was organized into thematic tracks this year. Each track was able to be followed throughout the conference so as to provide a deeper understanding of the theme, which reflected a i