Our student chapter ACS-UPRAg has taken up the mission to educate the community about the importance of Green Chemistry. Due to lack of awareness, we have allowed a great deal of pollution to our ecosystems. This year our green chemistry division started things off by visiting elementary schools and teaching the basics of the green concept. By guiding today’s young students to a greener lifestyle, they will become the professionals that we need in the future. Furthermore, we can’t forget the rest of the community if we want a meaningful change in our society. We organized and hosted the first “What is Green Chemistry?” Workshop in our campus. In this way we can impact the college community, members and non-members alike. We also took the initiative of placing “green” posters around the Natural Sciences Department, not just for the disclosure of the Green Chemistry Principles, but also so that our presence in the department is representative of the importance of the green initiative. Each year, with the same goals in mind, we publish our green journal “La Idea Química”, giving us a way to keep the community updated with news about Green Chemistry. Our chapter is always looking for new ways to reach out and raise awareness. In the past spring semester of 2014, we organized the <i>1<sup>st</sup> ACS Green Chemistry Fair: Scavenger Hunt Sustainable Future</i> where the community participated in a campus wide scavenger hunt. Our goal is to make this a recurrent activity each year to continue promoting the events message “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. These are just some of the ways our chapter has played a part in the green chemistry movement. In the future, we will continue trying to fulfill our mission of promoting the spread of the green philosophy.

Green chemistry: Prevention for a cleaner future

249th National Meeting (2015)

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