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Charting the Rapids Ahead: Western Water, Climate Change & Public Health

Carpe Diem West and the Public Health Instituteʼs Center for Public Health & Climate Change talked with some of the nationʼs leading experts working in the fields of public health, water, and climate about what they see as some of the most significant areas of potential concern, with a focus on the American West. This paper highlights some of the common themes and issues that emerged from our discussions with these experts, and describes some questions for decision makers to consider as they address the potential impacts of climate change on water and health.

Water Treatment Technology Seminar

A seminar with leading experts in water treatment technology.

Healthy Schools Network: October is Children's Health Month at EPA

In honor of Children's Health Month, we highlight the major children’s environmental health agenda we are moving across EPA, HHS, and Education in collaboration with members of the national Coalition for Healthier Schools. We also outline opportunities to advance child health protections.

EPA Releases Report on Climate Change and Health

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that discusses the potential impacts of climate change on human health, human welfare, and communities in the U.S. The report, entitled 'Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems,' also identifies adaptation strategies to help respond to the challenges of a changing climate and identifies near- and long-term research goals for addressing data and knowledge gaps."

Call for Papers - Consuming Chemicals: Implications for Women's Health

The National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH) is commissioning 6 papers that explore the relationship between exposures to chemicals and women's health. The paper should be 30-40 pages in length and NNEWH will give preference to papers that focus on the social determinants of health model. The chosen papers will be published in a collection edited by Dr. Dayna Nadine Scott. The authors will be asked to present their papers in public lectures hosted by York University, compile a policy brief based on their research and participate in a policy forum. In addition, the authors will receive $3,000 for the paper and lecture and $1,000 for the policy brief and their participation in the policy forum. The proposal deadline for papers is August 1st, 2008.

HEFN Grants Tracking Report

 

Antibiotics, Animal Agriculture and MRSA: A New Threat

This fact sheet from Health Care Without Harm was written by IATP's Dr. David Wallinga. It outlines the risks from antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are developing due to overuse of antibiotics in agriculture, and also discusses how these new "superbugs" are impacting human health off the farm.

Proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility

Proceedings of the Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility: Executice Summary

Who Owns the Bioeconomy?

An exploration of who owns the bioeconomy.

Green Chemistry: Strategic Opportunities by Frank Ackerman

Offers a quick, accessible review of economic models and tools that may prove useful to those interested in evaluating the costs and benefits of a green chemistry-related economic development strategy. Frank Ackerman is the Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and the Environment Institute at Tufts University. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Swarthmore College.

Integrating Green Chemistry and Safer Materials into Regional Economics and Workforce Development Strategies by Julia Parzen

A scoping, mostly from the vantage point of funders interested in regional economic development and jobs, at where green chemistry and safer materials could be useful, leveraged, or integrated. Julia Parzen is a Chicago-based consultant whose recent work has included the creation of a climate change action plan for the City of Chicago, for which a key issue is economic development and job creation.

How to share a resource via the HEFN website

 

Federal progress on environmental health in schools: EPA releases first overdue guideline, Department of Education harmonizes a new schools award program with EPA’s criteria

EPA is making good on commitments. In October, after continued prodding from Healthy Schools Network and allies in the national Coalition for Healthier Schools, the agency released its overdue guideline for schools on siting, with additional guidelines expected soon on school indoor environments.

Climate & Health Presentation

Presentation to accompany HEFN conference call on Nov.2 with Dr. Cindy Parker.

How Grant Makers Can Curb Global Warming

Article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy written by Stephen Viederman, former president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation.

HEFN Membership Flyer

HEFN's membership/outreach flyer.

Major contributor of arsenic in animal feed halts practice

This press release from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Center for Food Safety details how the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop selling (for now) its arsenic-containing product, 3-Nitro, for use in chicken, turkeys and swine. In 1944, 3-Nitro became the first arsenic-containing product approved by the FDA for use in food animals. This ban comes on the heels of a 2009 petition to the FDA calling for a roxarsone ban supported by IATP, the Center for Food Safety and a number of other organizations.

UC Berkeley Green Chemistry Conference, March 24, 2011

BCGC is the nation’s first major effort to address the challenges of green chemistry through the lenses of chemistry, the environmental health sciences, natural resource studies, public policy, law, business, and economics. “Green Chemistry: Collaborative Approaches and New Solutions” is the Center's first national conference. It will introduce the collaborative approaches piloted at Berkeley and will feature leaders from many fields, who will speak to the role of green chemistry in responding to society’s most pressing health, environmental, and economic problems.

New Pediatric Environmental Health Resource

The National Environmental Education Foundation announces the new edition of Pediatric Environmental Health from the American Academy of Pediatrics. This publication should be helpful in the field of pediatric environmental health for pediatric health care providers and those in public health.

Investors Challenge Natural Gas Companies to Increase Transparency and Protect the Environment

This press release describes the filing of 12 shareholder resolutions at natural gas exploration and development companies, focusing in particular on the toxic hazards from the practice of hydraulic fracturing. The resolutions ask companies to increase transparency regarding the environmental impact of their operations and encourage companies to mitigate risks by switching to less toxic fracturing fluids and adopting best practices for drilling and managing wastes.