An upbeat exploration of solutions to the problem of toxic chemicals in everyday products and the part green chemistry plays, highlighted by a passionate group of green chemists who, along with young entrepreneurs and popular brands that are adopting green chemistry solutions, intentionally design chemicals and products with safety in mind.

Directed by William Hemminger

Review by Victoria Angelique:

The pilot episode of the documentary series, SAFER STUFF, is engaging and exciting for anyone wanting to learn about green chemistry. It doesn’t linger on the history of climate change. It’s wanting to excite the audience about the innovative technologies that make up the thrilling world of clean solutions that would make our world a better place.

The experts do a fantastic job at explaining the scientific terms so that anyone that might struggle when it comes to understanding climate change, how nature works and how green chemistry will help improve the way we live will become excited over this technology. The importance of mimicking nature is explained through showing how it is explained to children through the example of sharks and how it is mimicked to help hospitals through a technology that won’t harm landfills. The transition to show how green chemistry is improving food through a clean technology by using pheromones instead of pesticides, with the explanation that pesticides might be harming the human body, is a great way to engage the viewer and keep them invested in this film’s call to action. 

Learning from nature is what many native cultures from around the world have done for generations, this series shows that there are scientists that have also been stating that and are doing something about it as they implement green chemistry in everyday items. Nature is the best to learn from and they prove it throughout this short film with how a shark or even a spider, can teach scientists on how to improve our world. 

SAFER STUFF makes it clear that green chemistry is necessary for the health of people and the environment. It’s a rare film that makes a call to action in a way that makes the viewer actually want to help and learn more about this new technology. The audience will want to get involved and watch future episodes. Anyone who watches SAFER STUFF will be excited about the future.