Chasing Molecules: A Conversation with Elizabeth Grossman

Please join the Worldwatch Institute

for a brown bag lunch with

 Elizabeth Grossman

 Author of

Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

 12 pm to 1 pm

Worldwatch Institute

1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW #800

Washington, DC 20036

Every day we hear more about toxics in our food and in the products we use on our bodies and in our homes. What we don't hear about is the cutting edge, scientific revolution that is working to create new materials that are safe for both people and our planet. Elizabeth Grossman, acclaimed investigative journalist and author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry (Island Press, publication date: September 30, 2009), envisions a world free of these hazardous chemicals and tells the story of the scientists paving the way.

Space is limited.  

RSVP to Julia Tier at jtier@worldwatch.org or 202-452-1999 x594 no later than Monday, November 9, 2009.

Elizabeth Grossman is the author of High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, The Washington Post, and other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

For more information about the book, visit Island Press.