Green Chemistry

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.05.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Teaching Context: The Need for Chemistry in an Inner-City Continuation School
  2. Rationale: Placing Environmental Justice at the Center
  3. Objectives
  4. Background Information: A Foundation in Chemistry
  5. Strategies: Access through Engagement
  6. Activities
  7. Bibliography
  8. Endnotes

The Science of Environmental Justice: Can Green Chemistry Change Our World?

Catherine Anne Salvin

Published September 2009

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Endnotes

  1. "San Francisco Unified School District." http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm (accessed August 13, 2009).
  2. Pastor, Manuel, James Sadd, Rachel Morello-Frosch. "Still Toxic After All These Years: Air Quality and Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area (2007)." cjtc.ucsc.edu/docs/bay_final.pdf. (accessed August 13, 2009).
  3. Ibid.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Weintraub, Irwin. "Fighting Environmental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography." Electronic Green Journal. http://www.mapcruzin.com/ejigc.html (accessed August 13, 2009).
  7. Ibid.
  8. "NBEJN EJ Fact Sheet." Welcome to the Environmental Justice Resource Center Clark Atlanta University. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/NBEJNEJFS.html (accessed August 13, 2009).
  9. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health & Justice Committee, Huntersview Tenants Association, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice: A Toxic Inventory of Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, www.greenaction.org/hunterspoint/.../TheStateoftheEnvironment090204Final.pdf. (accessed August 13, 2009).
  10. Ibid.
  11. Ibid.
  12. "SFHA Developments." San Francisco Housing Authority. http://www.sfha.org/about/developments/index.htm (accessed August 13, 2009).
  13. "Silent Violence of Environmental Racism." Welcome to Greenhomebuilders.com. http://www.greenhomebuilders.com/environmentalracism.htm (accessed August 13, 2009).
  14. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  15. Ibid.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Ibid.
  18. Ibid.
  19. "Articles." San Franciscans For Our City's Health. http://www.hunterspointnavalshipyard.org/articles.html (accessed August 13, 2009).
  20. Phelan, Sarah. "Going Nuclear." San Francisco Bay Guardian. www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=8471 (accessed August 13, 2009).
  21. "Articles." San Franciscans For Our City's Health.
  22. "ATSDR - Health Consultation - Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard (a/k/a Treasure Island Naval Station-Hunter's Point Annex), San Francisco, San Francisco County, California." ATSDR Home. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/PHA/hunterspoint/hun_p1.html (accessed August 13, 2009).
  23. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  24. Ibid.
  25. Ibid.
  26. D'Andrea, Niki. "San Francisco News - Fallout: The Past Is Present - page 6." San Francisco News, Events, Restaurants, Music. http://www.sfweekly.com/2002-07-31/news/fallout-the-past-is-present/6 (accessed August 13, 2009).
  27. Glanville, Sarah. "Environmental Justice in Bayview Hunters Point." Urban Studies 515 - Race, Poverty, and the Environment. bss.sfsu.edu/raquelrp/projects/515.../SF_Bayview_Hunters_Point.ppt (accessed August 13, 2009).
  28. Porter Sumchai, M.D., Ahimsa. "The Chicken or the Egg?." San Francisco Bay View. http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/the-chicken-or-the-egg (accessed August 13, 2009).
  29. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  30. McCormick, Erin, and Reynolds Holding. "TOO YOUNG TO DIE / Part One: Life's Toll." San Francisco Bay Area — News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Classifieds: SFGate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/03/MNINFANTMO.DTL (accessed August 13, 2009).
  31. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  32. Ibid.
  33. Ibid.
  34. "About Us." LEJ HOME. http://lejyouth.org/aboutus/about.html (accessed August 13, 2009).
  35. Lelchuk, Ilene. "BAYVIEW-HUNTERS POINT / S.F.'s invisible majority / Area with highest density of children is most underserved." San Francisco Bay Area — News, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Classifieds: SFGate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/31/BAG3UJ4MK71.DTL (accessed August 13, 2009).
  36. Ibid.
  37. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  38. "Articles." San Franciscans For Our City's Health.
  39. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  40. "Articles." San Franciscans For Our City's Health.
  41. Brown, Todd. "Midway Village Riles Peninsula Green Activists, San Mateo County Times." Greenaction. http://www.greenaction.org/midway/press/smt061206.shtml (accessed August 14, 2009).
  42. Ibid.
  43. Sciammas, Charlie, Tom Rivard, Megan Wier, Edmund Seto, and Rajiv Bhatia. "Traffic Causes Death and Disease in San Francisco Neighborhood | Urban Habitat." Welcome to Urban Habitat | Urban Habitat. http://www.urbanhabitat.org/node/2814 (accessed August 14, 2009).
  44. Ibid.
  45. Anastas, Paul T. Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.
  46. Ibid.
  47. Ibid.
  48. Ibid.
  49. "Principles of Environmental Justice." EJnet.org: Web Resources for Environmental Justice Activists. http://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.html (accessed August 14, 2009).
  50. Anastas, Paul T. Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.
  51. "Principles of Environmental Justice." EJnet.org.
  52. Anastas, Paul T. Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.
  53. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  54. Ibid.
  55. Ibid.
  56. "ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets." ATSDR Home. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html#bookmark05 (accessed August 14, 2009).
  57. Ibid.
  58. Ibid.
  59. Ibid.
  60. Ibid.
  61. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  62. "ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets." ATSDR Home.
  63. Ibid.
  64. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  65. "ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets." ATSDR Home.
  66. "Radiation at Hunters Point Shipyard - Community Window on the Hunters Point Shipyard." Community Window on the Hunters Point Shipyard. http://www.communitywindowontheshipyard.org/toxics_radiation/radiation.htm (accessed August 14, 2009).
  67. Ibid.
  68. Manahan, Stanley E. Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of Sustainability.
  69. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  70. Glanville, Sarah. "Environmental Justice in Bayview Hunters Point."
  71. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  72. Bayview Hunters Point Mothers Environmental Health, "Pollution, Health, Environmental Racism and Injustice."
  73. "Radionuclides (including Radon, Radium and Uranium) | Technology Transfer Network Air Toxics Web site | US EPA." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/hlthef/radionuc.html (accessed August 14, 2009).
  74. Manahan, Stanley E. Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of Sustainability.

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Brendan Haggerty

February 10, 2016 at 5:15 pm

Inquiry about curriculum

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