ECO-Action has compiled a short list of great resources on issues related to our work with communities around toxic exposure and human health. We recommend the following:
4:30am Marta College Park Station 3800 Main St
Atlanta, GA 30337
404-848-5000
5:00am – 11:00am Depart For Jekyll Island
Jekyll Island: The Water and The Blood
1:00pm – 2:00pm Lunch & Recap Tortuga Jacks 201 N Beachview Dr Jekyll Island, GA 31527
2:00pm – 2:30pm Travel to Hotel
Days Inn & Suites, Jekyll Island 60 S Beachview Dr.
Jekyll Island, GA
2:30pm – 4:00pm Store for Snacks & Fruit
4:00pm – 4:15pm Load Bus
4:15pm – 6:00pm Travel to Dinner w/ Commissioner Booker Commissioner Allen Booker
6:00pm – 7:00pm Dinner Tara Thai & Sushi 307 Longview Plaza Driveway
St. Simons Island, GA 31522
7:00pm – 7:30pm Travel to Back To Hotel Days Inn & Suites 701 Beachview Dr N
Jekyll Island, GA 31527
912 635-2211
7:30pm – 9:00pm Anti-Racism Presentation Olorunfemi Adeyemo Akesha Quashie
Healthy People 2030 includes objectives focused on reducing people’s exposure to harmful pollutants in air, water, soil, food, and materials in homes and workplaces. Learn more about environmental health.
Science for Georgia is a 501(c)(3). We work to build a bridge between scientists and the public and advocate for the responsible use of science in public policy.
Rachel’s Environment and Health News (can sign up for email newsletter) The best for learning!–published by Environmental Research Foundation.
Breast Cancer Action At Breast Cancer Action
We talk about breast cancer as the disease that it is – a disease that has environmental causes, a disease that kills more women of color than white women, and when it comes to device and drug approval at the FDA, a disease that is dominated by the pharmaceutical industry and not patients.
Beyond Pesticides
Alternatives, regulations, organizing information.
The Networker
Great resource group for precautionary principle, public trust doctrine and public interest research
Southern Partners Fund (SPF)
is emerging as one of the most significant community-based, public foundations in the United States.
The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute
has a grantmaking program that supports pacifist and social justice causes. Check out their website for more information.
The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
helping to move people and places out of poverty.
The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is to make the world a better place by empowering Ben & Jerry’s employees to use available resources to support and encourage organizations that are working towards eliminating the underlying causes of environmental and social problems.
The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need. We look for carefully defined points where our funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve the lives of countless people.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
doctors and supporters who work on toxics and nuclear issues.
Now on PBS
(w/Bill Moyers special) This Emmy-winning PBS weekly newsmagazine engages viewers with documentary segments and insightful interviews that probe the most important issues facing democracy, including media policy, corporate accountability, civil liberties, the environment, politics, social responsibility, and foreign affairs. The website also provides special materials to allow teachers to use these films as lesson plan skill-building materials.
Trade Secrets
(Bill Moyers) is an investigation of the history of the chemical revolution and the companies that drove it – and how companies worked to withhold vital information about the risks from workers, the government, and the public. http://billmoyers.com/content/trade-secrets/ A number additional Bill Moyer videos can be accessed from the site Moyers and Company. Search for videos with the topic “environment”.
Fooling with Nature
(Frontline) Are manmade chemicals in the environmental hazardous to humans? What does science know? Links to other Frontline videos on Environmental topics can be found here.
audio programs: Download and listen to discussion about the Precautionary Principle
The Meatrix:
Flash movie about food and support of farmers.
Think before You Pink Flash movie about Breast Cancer Research. Also see here on the Breast Cancer Action site.
The Economic Injustice of Plastic, TED Talk by Van Jones a number of other interesting TED talks on the subjects of environmental health and environmental justice can be found at the www.ted.com website.
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