Required
Self-select one chapter of choice each from:
Books
- Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices. Biomimicry Institute. 2014
- Chasing Molecules Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry, by Elizabeth Grossman. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2009.
- Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Design, by Striebig et al. Cenage 2023. Dr. Lauren Heine is one of the authors.
- Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice by Paul T. Anastas and John Charles Warner. Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry. by Stacy Malkan. New Society Publishers. 2017.
- Sustainable Business: Managing the Challenges of the 21st Century. Springer international Publishing, 2023. Open Access.
Self-select two of the various elements listed below:
Long Version Interviews
Andy Behar, As You Sow
Jose Bravo, Just Transitions
Lauren Heine, co-founder, ChemForward
David Levine, Founder, American Sustainable Business Network
Stacy Malkan, Co-founder, US Right to Know, Co-founder, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Author, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry.
Beverley Thorpe, Clean Production Action
Articles
- Advances in Green Chemistry and Engineering, compilation, Springer Nature 2022
- “Advancing Sustainable Chemistry Requires a Systems Approach to Research,” by Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal, Director, and Edmond Lam, Assistant Director, American Chemical Society Office of Sustainability
- “Education in Green Chemistry” in Sustainable Chemistry: Perspectives towards Sustainability.” by Vânia G. Zuin et al. Green Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, 22 Jan. 2021,
- “ESG is under attack. how should your company respond?” by Andrew Winston in the Harvard Business Review, December 23. 2023
- “Green Chemistry as Social Movement?” by Edward J. Woodhouse and Steve Breyman. Science, Technology, & Human Values, vol. 30, no. 2, 2005, pp. 199-222.
- “What Is Just Transition? And Why Is It Important?” Climate Promise, United Nations Development Program, 25 Oct. 2023,
Reports
- Biz NGO for Safer Chemicals and Sustainable Materials Publications
- ChemForward program documentation.
- Clean Production Action series of reports and publications
Videos
- American Sustainable Business Network Archived Videos
More Podcasts
From “Unintended Consequences”
Kristen Schafer, Collaborative on Health and the Environment talks about pesticides.
Peter Sullivan, environmental Health philanthropist talks about how toxic chemical and radiation exposures combine.
Other Podcasts
- Toxic Avengers with Daniel Rosenberg – Long time environmental health stalwart Daniel Rosenberg interviews environmental health and environmental justice advocates.
Websites
- American Chemical Society academic programs in green chemistry.
- American Sustainable Business Network
- As You Sow
- Biomimicry Principles
- Biz-NGO Group
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
- Center for Green Chemistry and Green Technology at Yale
- Center for Sustainable Production – University of Massachusetts at Lowell
- ChemForward
- Clean Production Action
- ecoRise – Biomimicry and Science design challenge. Curriculum for Secondary Students.
- Environmental Working Group – Skin Deep Database (Personal care products)
- Green Commerce and Chemistry Council
- Healthy Building Network
- Healthy Building Network – Pharos database for safer chemicals used in construction.
- Just Transition Alliance
- Pesticide Info Database
- SUDOC
- Sustainable Chemistry Catalyst – independent research and strategy initiative, based at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts.
- U.S. Right to Know