By Daniel Teitelbaum

Pollution Prevention Staff Lead, Toxic Release Inventory Program, US EPA

Last January, EPA released a new pollution prevention (P2) search tool to help bring attention to the thousands of P2 achievements that companies report to the Tox

An inexpensive new material made of clay and papaya seeds removes harmful metals from water and could lower the cost of providing clean water to millions of people in the developing world, scientists are reporting.

An inexpensive new material made of clay

Pharmaceutical Roundtable request help filling data gaps in their solvent selection guide.

The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Solvent Selection Guide is based on an evaluation of a number of endpoints including safety, health, and environmental properti

By Svetlana Dimovski

Manager Innovation and Science Relations, BASF NA

As the world’s leading chemical company, BASF is well positioned for outreach & development to work with world class innovators and companies across the United States as well as many oth

By www.launch.org

At LAUNCH we see a future where the making of things has a positive impact on human prosperity and planetary sustainability.

An Invitation for Innovators: Summary

Founding partners NASA, NIKE, the US Agency for International Development (US

By Dr. Jennifer Young Tanir

ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

When surveyed by the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI), there was general agreement by stakeholders that attributes beyond hazard are also important (i.e. LCA

This past month I had the privilege to participate in the People, Prosperity & the Planet Competition sponsored by the U.S. EPA.  I am very grateful to be a part of these events to see the progress that is being made in colleges and universities to engage

Already renowned for human health benefits, green tea could have a new role — along with other natural plant-based substances — in a healthier, more sustainable production of the most widely used family of nanoparticles.
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Some of the most enthusiastic green chemistry advocates you can find anywhere are the undergraduate ACS Student Chapter members. At the recent ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, I had a chance to meet many of these students and hear what they are doing

How do you get people to change their habits and adopt more environmentally friendly practices? Well, one biotechnology company in the San Francisco bay area, Genentech, seems to have found the answer. By combining the leadership of a few forward-looking

By Emily Hong, Yale University

Any college student who has ever had to cook and fend for themselves knows the advantages of one-pot cooking. One-pot cooking means no complex culinary wrangling of ingredients or excessive rounds of prep-work: Drop the goods

By John Adams, Marketing and Business Development, BASF Corporation and Orkun Onur, Marketing Manager, Mermet Corporation

Increasing greenhouse gas emissions are among one of the main contributors to global climate change. As the world’s population continu

Last month I spoke of a few events I had attended and why these might be of broader interest.  I’d like to beg your indulgence to let me do the same thing again this month.  I think it’s important to highlight the progress being made in sustainable and gr

By Dr. David C. Constable, Director, ACS GCI

It has been a busy but exciting month from a sustainable and green chemistry perspective.  I had the opportunity to attend Informex and it was interesting to see the interest in green chemistry expressed by some

The tiny packets of chlorophyll that make plants green have been re-engineered in an advance toward transforming plants into bio-factories that make ingredients for medicines, fabrics and fuels.
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The search for sustainable ne