For more thana two decades individual faculty from various colleges and universities have brought green chemistry, emphasizing materials and methods that are inherently safer for human health and the environment, to their students and research programs. As global calls for sustainability in the chemical enterprise ramp upward, the need to more widely integrate green chemistry into the background of all our students becomes imperative, preparing students to be competitive in the workplace and to solve important problems that they will encounter. The Green Chemistry Commitment (GCC) is a consortium project that seeks to encourage colleges and universities to commit to changing the education of tomorrow's chemists. Currently 50 colleges and universities are participating - from large universities to small colleges to community colleges., both nationally and internationally The flexible framework allows all to participate in ways that best fit the local needs of an institution. We will discuss how to adapt the GCC framework to a wide range of colleges and universities, hopefully encouraging additional participation. More info: http://www.beyondbenign.org/he-green-chemistry-commitment/

Green chemistry commitment

2019 Spring National Meeting

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