- Monday, March 27, 2006 : The California Air Resources Board [CARB]
The California Air Resources Board [CARB] recently published a report to the State Legislature describing the many indoor air toxins with emphasis on children's special vulnerabilities to many of these toxins and the link between them and childhood diseases and disabilities. It stated once again that the affect of indoor air exposures on children's health can be worse than outdoor air pollution. See the final report at this web address.
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : Alliance for Healthy Housing
The Alliance for Healthy Homes website contains good information on how to make housing healthy for children. It was formerly known as the Alliance to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning. See also the website of the National Center for Healthy Housing at http://www.centerforhealthyhousing.org/
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health has educational materials in both English and Spanish on how to make a healthy home for a healthy child.
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : Children’s Health Environmental Coalition’s HealtheHouse
The Children's Health Environmental Coalition has a HealtheHouse that gives a virtual tour of potential toxins in the home.
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : Pesticide Action Network of North America
The Pesticide Action Network North America's [PANNA] website features a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on the analysis of pesticide-related data in children. The report finds that children shoulder the heaviest "pesticide body burden." Click on the link below to read the details of this first-time public report. See also related information on the Californians for Pesticide Reform's website.
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : Children’s Environmental Health Network
Mt. Sinai's School of Medicine in New York City established the Center for Children's Health and the Environment (CCHE) as the nation's first academic research and policy center to examine the links between exposure to toxic pollutants and childhood illness. Its website includes powerful public health ads published in the New York Times on children's environmental health issues and cites to scientific research papers supporting the ads.
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : U.S. EPA
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has a website on the latest information about protecting children's health from environmental hazards. It includes a seminal report and updates on children's "body burdens," or the levels of toxic chemicals found in their bodies, as well as tips on how to protect children and information on potential environmental hazards.
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : Institute for Children’s Environmental Health
The Institute for Children's Environmental Health [ICEH] is leading a national collaboration of learning disability advocates and researchers connected with the Collaborative for Health and the Environment. It has a substantial amount of information about children's environmental health basics on its website.
- Monday, March 27, 2006 : American Lung Association
The American Lung Association features tipsheets on how to avoid asthma triggers in the home.
- Make Schools Environmentally Healthy for Pre-K Children, Students and Staff.
- Our Publications.
- Come to the Family Support Network Conference. The San Francisco Family Support Network (SFFSN) in collaboration with the Healthy Children Organizing Project (HCOP) Present a half-day training and policy discussion.
- November 2005 brochure.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : The California Air Resources Board (ARB)
The California Air Resources Board staff prepared this report to the Legislature on indoor air quality in response to requirements of Assembly Bill 1173. This report summarizes the best scientific information available on indoor air pollution and describes children's special vulnerability to this pollution. Click on the link above to see the final report in PDF format.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Growing Up Toxic
Environment California produced an excellent report on children's exposures to environmental hazards and the links to developmental diseases. See also its new report on the need to eliminate toxic chemicals commonly found in baby products called "The Right Start".
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Environmental Health News
Environmental Health News is published daily by Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. EHS publishes a daily electronic news update of news about the environment and diseases and disabilities, including those toxic exposures related to childhood diseases and disabilities. You can subscribe to "Above the Fold" if you are interested.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Collaborative for High Performance Schools
The Collaborative for High Performance Schools has developed a set of high performance school guidelines that includes improving indoor air quality in schools.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Center for Disease Control’s National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
The Center for Disease Control's National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals provides an ongoing assessment of the U.S. population's exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring. Biomonitoring is the assessment of human exposure to chemicals by measuring the chemicals or their metabolites in human specimens such as blood or urine.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : Rachel’s Environment & Health News
Rachel's Environment & Health News is an electronic newsletter that provides timely information on toxic substances and other environmental hazards. The newsletter covers many technical issues, such as the toxicity of dioxin, incinerator emissions, rising cancer rates, and the intricacies of risk assessment, but it is written in plain language that anyone can understand. Much of the information covered in Rachel's News never appears in the mainstream media and can only be found in medical and scientific journals that most people never see. Furthermore, Rachel's News tries to put environmental problems into a political context of money and power, so that people can see how all our problems - and all our local fights - are connected. Rachel's News has several newsletters on the Precautionary Principle including one entitled, "Fourteen Reasons for Precaution," as well as a listing of a number of related articles and resources.
- Sunday, October 30, 2005 : California Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board features a website dedicated to asthma and air pollution and its prevalence in California's populations, especially young children.
