What Would Rachel Say?

Children's Health and the Environment: A Video Introduction for State
Policy Makers

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) offers an
introductory video for state legislators and others on children's
environmental health at
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/envhealth/cehvid2.htm .

The video was funded through an EPA assistance agreement and features
prominent scientists and legislators with expertise in pediatric
environmental health.

Kid-Safe Chemicals Act
http://www.ewg.org/kidsafe

EWG's Kid-Safe factsheet [PDF]
http://www.ewg.org/files/EWG-Kid-Safe-factsheet.pdf

How Green is DuPont's Replacement for Teflon?
http://www.ewg.org/reports/teflongreenwash

Colorado's Chemical Injection
http://www.ewg.org/reports/injection

North American Pollinators Program Campaign (NAPPC) is working to educate the public about pollinators and how we can better protect them. For more information on NAPPC, contact www.nappc.org and for schools, contact http://www.pollinationcanada.ca/

New EPA Web Resource
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp /ochpweb.nsf/content/climate .htm

Web also provides links to other Climate Change resources
  Basic Information
  Science
  Climate Research
  Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  Health and Environmental Effects
  Frequent Questions
  U.S. Policy
  What You Can Do
  Climate Economics
  Climate and Aging
  ENERGY STAR Pledge
  Other Links

William Crain speaks about Synthetic Turf. A video presentation (June 2008).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pud7WFZr65o

Today I am launching my new blog, We All Live Downstream , and I invite you to check it out and be part of our emerging online community of water-loving people who care, think and act in ways that protect our planet. See if you agree (or disagree) with me that we are part of a Five Billion Year Recycling Project.

John DeCock
President, Clean Water Action

For More About LEAN:

WWW.LEANWEB.ORG

"The environment makes it easier or harder for healthy choices to be the default choices. And adults create the environment that kids live in."
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as quoted in TIME

http://www.healthyschoolscampaign.org/

http://www.truthout.org /article/life-liberty-water
In YES! Magazine, Maude Barlow writes: "It's a colossal failure of political foresight that water has not emerged as an important issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign. The links between oil, war, and U.S. foreign policy are well known. But water-whether we treat it as a public good or as a commodity that can be bought and sold-will in large part determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous."