Green Chem Essential is a source for green chemistry news, stories, and context. We offer updates about the work that’s happening in the field and about the inspiring people who do that work.
Why should anyone care about Green Chemistry?
Consider the all things we need and use on a daily basis – energy, water, food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation, medicine. If we want to tackle climate change and create a more sustainable future, we have to find cleaner, safer, and more efficient ways to get these things.
In most cases, that requires thoughtfully redesigning these things, and the processes we use to make these things, all the way down at the molecular level.
Green Chemistry makes that possible. In this science lies the potential for hope, and the possibility for action.
Background
Green Chem Essential is produced by media veteran James Rea. James brings to this effort more than 25 years of experience in communicating green chemistry, and related sustainability topics, to a wide range of audiences, and across all media formats.
This includes work with the U.S. EPA, National Public Radio (NPR), the ACS Green Chemistry Institute, the Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale, Change Chemistry, and Beyond Benign.
James’s experience in producing radio and web video programming led him, in 2015, to become a workshop instructor with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, a role he held until 2024.
Taken together, this media production and coaching experience have left James with a lasting passion for helping to make complex content more accessible to more people.