The Green Chemistry

In the first article, ‘’Promoting sustainability through green chemistry’’ by Mary M. Kirchhoff, green chemistry is deemed to be a idea to adopt safe chemical products design and production in the industries in order to eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substance to the environment. The implementation of technologies minimizes the use of hazardous substance, decreases energy consumption and maximizes efficiency; thus, the sustainable development which meets the needs of present without compromising the capability of the coming generations to meet their own needs is achieved. The industry has adopted the idea of green chemistry and some have made alterations to their process design and taken alternative design as to reduce the production of hazardous substances. The green chemistry revolution has to be carried on in collaboration of industry, academia and government. The government organization can promote sustainability in the form of funding to researches and education, and regulatory relief for the adoption of cleaner technologies while the academia purveys the fundamental knowledge related to new chemistry products and processes where the industry relies on. Overall, the green chemistry is an essential component of the sustainability agenda as it applies innovation to the global challenge.
In the second article, ‘’Green chemistry takes root’’ by Elizabeth Weise suggests that 21st century green chemistry revolutions has its darkest underbelly especially in the economic aspect. Although the adoption of green chemistry draws in a lot of benefits in terms of the process safety and product quality, the inherent cost of the green chemistry is far more than that. The safer, effective and available green chemistry technology may be available but the companies just spurn to use them as they wouldn’t make big money. However, as the researches move on, a highly profitable chemical process would be introduced and the advantages outweigh the conducting cost. The ploy of the green chemistry is viable as it conforms to the nature’s lead, and it requires slower but less energy and input-intensive methods rather than consumes scarce resources in a faster process. Conclusively, the green chemistry is the future direction of the industry in tandem with the world vision of a sustainable world.
In the first article, APA citation style is used in every paragraph. The citation is made after each particular remark of research, theory and declaration. Then, each citation made is in reference to the references appended at the end of the article. This is very useful because when a reader needs to refer more about a particular topic that is stated in the paragraph and with such references link, the reader gets to know more about the topic elaborately.
There are few phrases or words that I found relevant and informative in the two articles. In the first article, the word sustainability denotes the ability to continue over a long time, the word enterprise denotes the eagerness to do something new and the word innovation denotes the introduction of new changes. In the second article, the word underbelly means the weakest part of something and the word revolution indicates the great change in the way of doing things.