Green chemistry principles have the potential to reshape how we do business. These transformational principles remove the artificial constructs that place economics at odds with environmental stewardship allowing for increased sustainability of health and wealth. Although the importance of green chemistry is clear, the development of green chemistry curriculum has been spotty. In particular, analytical chemists are responsible for developing the methods to acquire the essential data necessary to evaluate system health; but analytical chemists are relative newcomers to the field of green chemistry. This paper describes the novel innovations in analytical chemistry that are making it possible to acquire data using increasingly greener methods, identifies existing green analytical methods, as well as presents new educational materials to teach the green mind-set to our analytical students. This paper will give an overview of green analytical methods, primarily innovations in sample pretreatment, while describing the developments and possibilities for green undergraduate analytical materials in introductory laboratories.