Infusing sustainability and additional green chemistry into Chemistry
Infusing sustainability and additional green chemistry into Chemistry in Context Michael Cann Chemistry Department http: //academic. scranton. edu/faculty/CANNM 1/greenchemistry. html
Sustainability • "Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. " (The U. N. Brundtland Commission 1987)
Sustainability? Consumption & Waste Influenced by Population Growth & Affluence Nature • Are we exceeding the carrying capacity of the earth? Are we using resources and creating waste faster that the earth can take our wastes and convert them back into resources? • Consuming “natural capital” rather than just the interest. Resources Consumption Waste Resources Humans Consumption Waste
Sustainability Climate Energy Food Water Material Goods Waste Extinction of Species
Mission “To advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people. ” https: //portal. acs. org/portal/acs/corg/memberapp? _nfpb=true&_ page. Label=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node id=1392&use_sec=false
Sustainability & Chemistry • The Chemistry Enterprise in 2015 (A 2005 Report of the ACS), “By 2015, the chemistry enterprise will be judged under a new paradigm of sustainability. Sustainable operations will become both economically and ethically essential. ” • “Chemical Society Presidents Pledge Support For Sustainable Development” (American, British, Japanese, German, French, Dutch), July 16, 2007, C&En • “I feel so strongly about sustainability and the vital role the chemistry enterprise will play in providing for a sustainable future that I selected "Sustainability of Energy, Food & Water" as the presidential theme for the March 2007 ACS national meeting in Chicago. ” Catherine Hunt, ACS President, May 7, 2007, C&En
GREEN CHEMISTRY Education • "Green chemistry represents the pillars that hold up our sustainable future. It is imperative to teach the value of green chemistry to tomorrow's chemists. " Daryle Busch, President ACS, June 26, 2000, “Color Me Green” Chem. Eng. News 2000, 78 (28) 49 -55.
Green Chemistry Education Lots of Supplemental Materials • ACS – Real-World Cases in Green Chemistry – Greener Approaches to Undergraduate Chemistry Experiments (Spanish) – Introduction to Green Chemistry – Innovations for a Cleaner World (video)
Green Chemistry in Mainstream Textbooks – an Informal Survey 2007 • • Non-science Majors 7 General 11 Organic 7 Organic lab 5 Inorganic 1 Analytical (1 coming) Environmental 2 Total 33/141 • Publishers – – – – – Thomson 12 Prentice Hall 6 Houghton Mifflin 5 WH Freeman 5 Mc. Graw Hill 4 Wiley 1 Benjamin Cummings 0 Jones Bartlett 0 Norton 0 Most are only a cursory mention of GC & many just supplementary material
Chemistry in Context • 1994, 1 st edition • 2000, 3 rd edition -green chemistry • “It is now time to take green chemistry out of the margins” Cathy Middlecamp, 2007 • “Chemistry in Context was groundbreaking in its approach to teaching chemistry, it will be groundbreaking again by infusion of the issues of sustainability” Cathy Middlecamp, 2007
Why Sustainability and Green Chemistry for Non-Science Majors? "Green chemistry represents the pillars that hold up our sustainable future. It is imperative to teach the value of green chemistry to tomorrow's chemists. " Daryle Busch, President ACS, June 26, 2000, “Color Me Green” Chem. Eng. News 2000, 78 (28) 49 -55. We should also add …. and to our future politicians, educators, business leaders, financiers, lawyers, economists, health professionals, etc. for all of us need to think in a sustainable manner.
Blending Sustainability & GC in Cin. C Prolog Sustainability • Definition • Footprint • Carrying Capacity • Population • Affluence • Green Chemistry Chaps. 1, 3 Climate • Air pollution • Warming • Sea level • Weather • Thermo haloclines • Precautionary • Low VOC • CO 2 solvent • CO 2 feedstock Chaps. 4, 7, 11 Energy • Fossil fuels • Peak oil • Nuclear • Alternative energy • PLA • Glycerin Chap. 11 Food • Green revolution • Fertilizers • pesticides • Grain/pound • Irrigation • Crop failure CC • Arable land • Interesterification Chap. 5 Water • Pollution • Irrigation • Aquifers • Glaciers • Cotton • Ionic liquids Chap 9 Waste • Recycling • Biopolymers • PLA • Cellulose
Blending GC into Cin. C (PGCC winners) • 1 AIR: 1. 13 Indoor Air Pollution: replacing VOCs & chlorinated solvents • 2 OZONE: 2. 12 Replacements of CFCs: Pyrocool, CO 2 blowing agent, harpin • 3 CLIMATE: 3. 10 Strategies for Change: Polyols, SCORR, • 4 ENERGY: 4. 7 Petroleum: PLA, glycerin • 5 WATER: 5. 9 Water Solutions of Ionic Compounds: ionic liquids; 5. 9 Covalent Compounds and their Solutions, scouring cotton • 6 ACID RAIN, 7 NUCLEAR and 8 ENERGY e- TRANSFER? • 9 POLYMERS & PLASTICS: PLA & dissolution of cellulose; 9. 8 Recycling of Plastics: recycling of carpeting • 10 DRUGS: New syntheses of pharmaceutical drugs including Ibuprofen • 11 FOOD: 11. 2 Fats and Oils: enzymatic interesterification; 11. 8 Feeding a Hungry World: pesticides • 12 GENETIC ENGINEERING: 12. 7 Genetically Engineered Agriculture: “Natural Plastics” polyhydroxyalkanoates
Teams: Blending GC into Textbooks • Formation of teams to infuse GC and sustainability into textbooks – Teams based on interest/expertise – Select a textbook(s) – Develop a plan to infuse GC into mainstream topics – Contact author/publisher with the plan – Coordinated by ACS education or GCI?
Acknowledgements • • • Mary Kirchhoff, ACS Cathy Middlecamp, Editor Karen Anderson Steve Keller Anne Bentley Gabriela Weaver Jerry Bell, ACS Corrie Kuniyoshi, ACS Tami Hodge, Mc. Graw-Hill Jodi Rhomberg, Mc. Graw-Hill
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