Elizabeth Grossman: 2 books
Chasing Molecules
Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
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...
High Tech Trash
Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything...