Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry

by Elizabeth Grossman

Book Overview

Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if green chemistry could change all that? What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials?

Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161091161X
• ISBN13: 9781610911610
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Shearwater Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"