How does one design a benign chemical? What makes a chemical toxic? Can toxicity be predicted at the design stage? These are some of the questions that Dr. Julie Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Green Engineering at Yale University, seeks to answer. Last

By Sudhakar Reddy, Ph.D., Coordinator - Sustainable Labs, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Like most higher education institutions across the country, lab operations at the University of Michigan (UM) typically consume 4 to 8 times more energy when compa

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring—a book that opened people’s eyes to the connection between chemicals and their unintended effects on the environment and human health. It was the birth of an environmental perspective grounded in scie

By Jennifer Acevedo, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

The 2012 Michigan Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference brought over 130 people together on October 26^th at Wayne State University to discuss advancing and sustaining green products and

By Ken Zarker, Washington State Department of Ecology

Washington State was pleased to host the 2012 Green Chemistry Roundtable at the Suquamish Clearwater Hotel on October 23-25.

Green Chemistry Workshops

The event kicked-off with two green chemistry worksh

By Federico H. Cova, PhD Candidate at Balseiro Institute, Argentina

When working in the field of alternative energy sources it is usual to think only in the part of the process in which the research is centered. From this view, you can always say that what

“Everybody gets into chemistry because you want to help the world somehow,” says Dr. Joseph Fortunak. Motivated by this, Dr. Fortunak graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a PhD in Organic Chemistry and after a postdoctoral stint at Camb

Every year, students from all over the world come to the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy. This year, one student from Brazil, Thaíla de Mello Florêncio, took her knowledge gained from the program and co-authored a paper with her

Since the birth of green chemistry in the 1990's, there has been an ever increasing amount of research done to understand how to synthesize and design molecules in a framework that takes into account toxicity, process efficiency, and environmental impact.

by Jane Dmochowski, Ph.D., Managing Director, VIPER

Pictured from left to right VIPER class of 2016: Anjali Khetan, Eric Lu, Meehir Pathare, Albert Xiao,
Julia Fordham, David (Jin Soo) Lim, Gerardo Cedillo Servin, and Connor Lippincott.

The University of Pe

By Phllip Jessop, Ph.D., Technical Director, GreenCentre Canada

More and more green chemistry technologies are being invented at the chemistry and chemical engineering departments of universities, but far too few of those technologies actually make it to m

“What we really need is a biological alternative to industry.” This was the comment that Stephen del Cardayre remembers Berkeley Professor Joe Neilands making to him one day over lunch many years ago. Although he can’t remember the exact quote, the idea s

By Dr. Vincent Nyamori and Dr. Werner Van Zyl, June 2012

Green chemistry is a philosophy that aims to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of waste and to maximise the efficiency of chemical products and processes. As such, green chemistry can be app