This is a directory of all the assignments for the course "Introduction to Green Chemistry."

Lesson One: The Essentials of Green Chemistry

Module One: Changing Course

• Essays on Science and Society: Toward Sustainable Chemistry, by Terry Collins, Science, January 2001: Vol. 291, no. 5501, pp. 48-49.
• A Solar Grand Plan: By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas emissions, by Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis, Scientific American, December 2007.

Module 2: Green Chemistry and Sustainability

From Wikipedia:

Feedstocks

• Oil resources
• Coal reserves
• Natural gas
• Renewable energy

Climate

• Climate change

Natural chemistry

• Pollution

Water

• Water pollution
• Water resources

Module 3: Green Chemistry Defined

• Biography of William Henry Perkin at the Chemical Heritage Foundation website.
• The Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website.
• Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 1-19) in "Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice" by Paul T. Anastas and John C. Warner.

Module Four: Green Chemistry Tackles the Grand Challenges

From the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health

• Endocrine Disruptors
• Are EDCs Blurring Issues of Gender?

and please see:

• Does the Dose Make the Poison?
  A substantial body of scientific evidence published in the peer-reviewed literature challenges the central tenet of regulatory toxicology, which assumes "the dose makes the poison." Experimental data now conclusively show that some endocrine-disrupting contaminants can cause adverse effects at low levels that are qualitatively different from those caused by high level exposures. Regulatory toxicology has assumed that high dose experiments can be used to predict low-dose results. These findings invalidate that assumption. As a result, it is highly likely that health standards established using standard toxicological procedures are too weak.