Customer Reviews

Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of Sustainability, 2nd ed

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I have been upset with the laziness of the publishers. As a publisher myself, and very happy to be a member of Amazon Advantage, readers should understand that publishers can, at no cost, enter the Table of Contents, the Author's Biography, Publisher's Comments, and short editorial reviews of the book by others. They can also send the book to Amazon as a candidate for full "Inside the Book" cross-indexing.

Since this publisher has failed abysmally to respect the potential buyer and reader, and since the author merits better, below I am simply going to provide the chapter headings and the ten commandments. Buy the book if you need to, but in my view, this brilliant author has not been well-served by his publisher.

Contents:
01 Chemistry, Green Chemistry, and Environmental Chemisty
02 The Elements: Basic Building Blocks of Green Chemicals
03 Compounds: Safer Materials for a Safer World
04 Chemical Reactions: Making Materials Safely without Damaging the Environment
05 The Wonderful World of Carbon: Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals
06 Energy Relationships
07 Water, the Ultimate Green Solvent: Its Uses and Environmental Chemistry
08 Air and the Atmosphere
09 The Biosphere: How the Revolution in Biology Relates to Green Chemistry
10 The Geosphere, Soil, and Food Production: The Second Green Revolution
11 Toward a Greener Anthrosphere through Industrial Ecology
12: Feedstocks: Maximum Utilization of Renewable and Biological Materials
13: Terrorism, Toxity, and Vulnerability: Chemistry in Defense of Human Welfare
14 The Ten Commandments

01 Human Welfare Must Be Measured in Terms of Quality of Life
02 We Must Address Both Number of People and Demands on Earth Per Person
03 Anthrosphere Must Be Recognized and Held to Goal of Zero Environmental Impact
04 Energy Sources With Little or No Environmental Impact Are Essential
05 Climate Conducive to Life on Earth Must Be Maintained
06 Earth's Capacity for Biological and Food Productivity Must be Maintained and Enhanced (e.g. with Deep Root Farming)
07 Material Demand Must be Drastically Reduced, Be Reusable, Recyclable, or Biodegradable (e.g. end to toxic trash)
08 Toxic Waste Should Not Be Released and Must Be Rendered Non-Hazardous
09 There Are Risks in Not Taking Risks
10 Education in Sustainability is Essential

The author is compelling and sensible. I am personally thrilled to see that in addition to the success of Paul Hawken and the others in the Natural Capital Institute, that biomimicry, benevolent bacteria, green chemistry, and sustainable design are coming into their own. We have seven years from today to stop emission growth.

See also:
Priority One: Together We Can Beat Global Warming
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Biomimicry for Optimization, Control, and Automation
Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes
The Philosophy of Sustainable Design
Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs
The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption