Teaching Green Analytical Chemistry on the Example of Bioindication and Biomonitoring (B & B) Technologies

Teaching of Green Analytical Chemistry (GAC) requires a not inconsiderable willingness on the part of the lecturer to familiarize himself with a relatively new field in analytical chemistry. Although there is much that can be derived from Green and Sustainable Chemistry, the GAC’s forward-looking perspectives in particular are independent approaches that must not be neglected. In the first chapter of this article, approaches are pursued “how (teachers) learn to learn,” ultimately based on a consensus on ethics, which allows dealing with people, society and the environment to become an interdisciplinary unit. The end of all this is a smart method of conflict management which provides solutions of problems. Available tools include Regions concerned with education (learn how to learn) Think tanks (to define integrative solutions for problems) and Turbodemogracy (to get faster results) In the second part of the chapter, GAC and nature merge completely, in which mechanical sample collectors are replaced by mosses within the framework of bioindication and biomonitoring (B & B) technologies during atmospheric deposition measurement of chemical elements. Definitions of bioindicators and biomonitors, active and passive B & B technologies and interdisciplinary connections between bioindicative sampling and scientific interpretations of natural systems are given. Mosses are distinguished by a rather large resistance toward enhanced levels of various anthropogenic air pollutions permitting their use also in polluted areas.