DENVER, Aug. 28, 2011 — With "sustainability" on the minds and lips of more and more people — determined to use resources today in ways that do not jeopardize the needs of future generations — the American Chemical Society (ACS) today began one of the largest-ever sessions devoted to sustainability and green chemistry.
Scheduled for ACS' 242nd National Meeting & Exhibition, which continues here through Thursday, the 29 symposia include more than 150 scientific reports on those topics. They range from green chemistry for sustainable production of fuels and innovative new solutions to water pollution to controlling emissions of the greenhouse gases that drive global climate change.
Those symposia marked with an asterisk (*) indicate symposia scheduled to be recorded as part of the Electronic Dissemination of Meeting Content project. They will be available online. Go to green archives for recordings from previous ACS National Meetings and conferences, including the 14th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference.
Here are the National Meeting's sustainability-related symposia, with the program area in parentheses for use in searching the online Technical Program for times and locations of individual presentations.
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