Awards

• Winner of Nautilus Award (Media/Journalism) 2010

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Author:   Elizabeth Grossman
Publisher:   Island Press
Imprint:   Island Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9781597263702

ISBN 10:   1597263702
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   07 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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Grossman profiles the worst offenders, including bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates, but she also portrays the good guys who are coming to the rescue, John Warner and Paul Anastas, founders of the burgeoning green chemistry movement. Green chemistry aims to replace hazardous synthetic chemicals with chemicals that are benign by design. Grossman's clarion expose should give this lifesaving initiative a big boost. --Donna Seaman Booklist

Grossman profiles the worst offenders, including bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates, but she also portrays the good guys who are coming to the rescue, John Warner and Paul Anastas, founders of the burgeoning green chemistry movement. Green chemistry aims to replace hazardous synthetic chemicals with chemicals that are benign by design. Grossman's clarion expose should give this lifesaving initiative a big boost. -- Donna Seaman Booklist

There are enough environmental problems that seem insoluble... Elizabeth Grossman has given us this chronicle of a field with a bright future, the green chemistry that will replace the crude methods of the 19th century with the smart ones of the 21st. She tells us how it could happen--we should listen carefully! --Bill McKibben author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy

Author Information

Elizabeth Grossman is the author of High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, The Washington Post, and other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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