Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of Sustainability

by Stanley E. Manahan

The first four chapters of the book deal with the most fundamental principles of chemistry along with an introduction to green chemistry. Organic chemistry and biochemicals are introduced in Chapter 5. Later chapters discuss energy, the environmental and green chemistry of water, the atmosphere and atmospheric chemistry,the biosphere and biological processes, the geosphere and soil, industrial ecology, and feedstocks. There is a separate chapter on terrorism and its relationship to green chemistry. The last chapter, "The Ten Commandments of Sustainability," lays out ten principles to be followed if sustainbility is to be achieved. A unique feature of the book is its recognition of the anthrosphere - the things that humans make and do - as a fifth sphere of the environment along with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.

396 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 2011

About the author

Stanley Manahan, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of environmental chemistry at the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO). His focus of research has primarily been on environmental and toxicological chemistry, and waste treatment.

He won the Year 2000 Award of the Italian Chemical Society, Environmental Chemistry Division.