The Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI) is a student-led group founded in 2012 with the primary mission of promoting green chemistry education at the University of Toronto. In order to achieve this, the GCI’s activities have included undergraduate curriculum development, arrangement of an external speaker seminar series, and organization of an annual three-day symposium along with biweekly trivia challenges. To broaden education beyond the Department of Chemistry, a successful YouTube video campaign articulating the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry in an accessible manner has also been undertaken (acquiring over 40,000 views), in addition to monthly blog posts and conference/outreach presentations. Descriptions of these activities are discussed in this paper, along with the resulting impact they have had. Through such efforts, undergraduate and graduate students are showing a growing understanding of the relevance of green chemistry in today’s world, with the GCI serving as a platform for similar groups to build upon across Canada.

绿色化学倡议（GCI）是一个由学生主导的团体，成立于2012年，其主要使命是在多伦多大学推广绿色化学教育。为了实现这一目标，GCI的活动包括开发本科课程，安排外部演讲者研讨会系列，组织为期三天的年度座谈会以及每两周一次的琐事挑战。为了将教育范围扩大到化学部以外，除了每月的博客帖子和会议/外展演讲之外，还成功开展了YouTube视频活动，以无障碍方式阐明了“十二种绿色化学原理”（获得40,000多次观看次数）。本文讨论了这些活动的描述以及它们所产生的影响。通过这样的努力