SciShow
Sneaky Ways Chemists Are Making Our World Safer
The path that products take to get onto store shelves doesn’t always leave the best impact on the environment. But with green chemistry, chemists have found ways to make the production of some items safer for both people and the planet.
TED Talks
Janine Benyus: Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers
In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.
Science Buddies
Can Beeswax Wraps Replace Plastic Wraps?
In this science project you will create a beeswax wrap and compare it's physical properties, sustainable characteristics, and food storage capabilities to commonly used plastic wrap.
Science Buddies
Making Sustainable BioFabrics from Seaweed | Science Project
Can you imagine clothing, handbags, or shoes made from seaweed? Seaweed biofabrics are just one of the new materials the textile industry is trying in an effort to engineer more eco-friendly fabrics. In this video, we will show you how...
Science360
Explosions Optional: Kate the Chemist shares her secrets for exciting audiences about science
From the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to the Wendy Williams Show, Kate the Chemist has been a fixture on the talk show circuit -- blowing things up whenever she gets the chance. But her secret is not in the pyrotechnics. As a professor...
FuseSchool
What Is Carbon Neutral and Biofuels
Learn the basics about carbon neutral and biofuels, as a part of environmental chemistry. Coal, oil, natural gas, shale gas and gas from fracking are fossil fuels formed hundreds of millions of years ago from living things that got...
FuseSchool
Green Chemistry - Principle 1
Learn the basics about the principles of green chemistry as part of the environmental chemistry topic.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Science Behind the News: Drug Resistant Bacteria
With antibiotic drugs becoming less and less effective, scientists are looking for new sources of disease-fighting medicines, and they are looking towards nature for them. [4:46]